Rajasthan has 108.53 lakhs of cattle and 104.46 lakhs buffaloes, out of which Jhunjhunu district had 122.858 cattle and 378,942 buffaloes in 2003. Cattle and buffalo rearing play an important role in improving the socio-economic condition of the rural masses by providing additional income as well as complementing agriculture.

Rajasthan is the pioneer state in the country where the Panchayati Raj System was introduced on October 2, 1959. At present there are 3058 women Sarpanch and 27000 women Panch in Rajasthan.

Rajasthan is one of the major groundnut producing states of the country. Groundnut is the principal oilseed crop of the kharif season of the state. The productivity of this crop is very low in this agro-climatic zone as compared to the state average productivity. This has been basically due to non-adoption of improved package of practices of groundnut cultivation by majority of the farmers.