Abstract

The mountainous UT of Jammu and Kashmir, wherein majority of population derive their livelihoods from agriculture, and where average maintaining size may be very small, and in which mountain specificities which include fragility, inaccessibility, and many others., keep to behave as a constraint for development, yet the nation is anticipated to possess lot of ability to exploit through manipulation in their present natural resource base and production techniques to satisfy the challenges of achieving meals and nutritional security. The current study throws light at the outcomes of agricultural diversification on socioeconomic improvement of Jammu and Kashmir and exhibits that 831- and 620-man days in line with residence hold generating 32 and 31 according to cent of the whole employment from agriculture respectively from different diverse companies contributed 34 and 25 in step with cent of the total earnings. The observe similarly revealed that amongst two groups the excessive assorted institution exhibited a great deal better dietary safety in comparison to the decrease diverse group. In addition, the results were suggestive of the truth that the better farm households and highly various institution enjoyed better dwelling fashionable as compared to the much less assorted farm group inside the study vicinity.