The study was conducted in eastern dry zone of Karnataka comprising of three districts viz; Kolar, Bangalore and Tumkur. From each of these districts, one taluk was selected and four villages were selected randomly from each taluk. From each of the 12 selected villages 10 farmers were selected by systematic random sampling technique. Data were collected from 120 respondents by using pretested structured interview schedule. The findings revealed that high employment generation was found in case of crop + dairy + sericulture farming system (75 man days/year), followed by crop + sericulture (59 man days/year) and very least in case of crop only farming system. The multiple regression values of socio-personal and psychological variables in predicting the employment generation depicted that among 12 variables, scientific orientation was found to be highly significant at one per cent level while land holding was found to be significant at five per cent level under crop only farming system, land holding was found to be significant at one per cent level while three variables viz., age, social participation and innovativeness were significant at five per level under crop + dairy, livestock possession and cropping intensity were found to be very highly significant under crop + dairy + sericulture, whereas, land holding, risk willingness and cropping intensity were found  highly significant under crop + sericulture farming system.