Vulnerability is defined as a person's or group's diminished ability to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from the effects of a natural or man-made hazard. The concept is dynamic and relative. Vulnerability is often associated with poverty, but it can also occur when people are isolated, insecure, and have fewer defences in the face of risk, shock, or stress. Physical vulnerability, economic vulnerability, social vulnerability, and environmental vulnerability are the different types of losses that can occur. The present study aims to assess vulnerability index of rural families with agriculture as their main occupation. Exploratory research was employed for the present study. A sample of 160 farm families were selected for the study and Questionnaire was developed after a thorough review of the literature, it included components like physical vulnerability, nutritional vulnerability, household vulnerability, psychological vulnerability, economic and environmental vulnerability. The study concludes that household and nutritional vulnerability was average. The psychological and physical vulnerability was also found to be average but environmental and economic vulnerability was found to be high.

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