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The study was conducted in the state Manipur to identify and quantify the various constraints faced by the dairy farmers of Manipur Milk Producers Cooperative Union in practicing the improved dairy farming practices. Four districts of Manipur namely Imphal East, Imphal West, Thoubal and Bishnupur were selected purposively because all the 88 registered milk cooperative societies are located in these districts. Five villages from one block each of the districts were selected randomly where registered milk cooperative societies were located. Six members those who were the members of cooperative society and owned the highest number of dairy animals were selected randomly to constitute a total sample size of 120 for the study. It was found that the most serious constraints encountered by the members in different areas of breeding, feeding, management, health care and fodder production in improved dairy farming practices were 'high cost in treatment of breeding related problem', 'high cost of feed ingredients', 'scientific management of dairy animals', 'high cost of veterinary medicines', and 'land for fodder cultivation' respectively. It was also found that the farmer's perception towards the overall constraints was highest in the area of health care practices [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The information was collected through personal interview with the help of pre-tested structured schedule administered on randomly selected 80 SHG members from the total 8 blocks of the district. Two villages from each block and from each village five respondents were selected randomly. In this way, total 10X8= 80 SHG beneficiaries and similar number of respondents (80) from same blocks in the same way as Non SHG beneficiaries rearing livestock were considered to make as control group for comparative study with the SHG beneficiaries. To judge the impact of the study, dependent variables such as adoption Index in improved Dairy farming practices was measured by using the available scale. The study depicted important attributes in relation to adoption index in dairy farming practices by the rural SHG members. To improve the adoption level of the beneficiary, strengthening of dairy owner's education level, occupation, income status, attitude and overall communication sources are very much vital. The study revealed that the adoption level of SHG members was quite better than Non-SHG members due to better education standard, income source, information network and overall attitude level through self help group activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study was conducted in Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal. Data were collected through personal interview with the help of pre-tested structured schedule from randomly selected 80 SHG member of 8 blocks of the district. Two villages from each block and five respondent from each village were selected, total of 80 SHG beneficiaries rearing animals were used to make a control group the SHG dairy farmers were younger in age with less than secondary level education. Majority of them depended on agriculture and animal Husbandry based production system with nuclear family and low income group having land holding up-to one hectare. Though, the socio-economic condition of the SHG was poor but their information network, socio-psychological orientation and adoption behavior were better than Non-SHG members. The study indicated that younger farmers with lower level of education and economic status were readily available to join developemental programme which was actually designed for the socio-economic up-liftment of the rural SHG members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study was under taken to analyse the technical efficiency of milk production in the state of Tamil Nadu. By applying multidimensional scaling method, the state of Tamilnadu was segmented into four homogenous milk zones based on the resource endowment of the districts, favourable for dairy development. From the four zones, four districts viz., Kanchipuram, Erode, Nagappattinam and Thoothukudi were selected to represent each zone based on the factor scores obtained by these districts in each zone. A total sample size of 480 dairy farmers were selected for the present study. To estimate the level of efficiency in milk production, stochastic frontier production function was used. The farm specific technical efficiencies revealed that the distribution of most efficient elite group (Technical efficiency more than 90 per cent) of dairy farmers was the highest in Erode district (42.5 per cent) followed by Kanchipuram district (39.17 per cent) and Nagapattinam district. The mean technical efficiency was 85.5 per cent, 85.8 per cent, 82.7 per cent and 77.4 per cent respectively for Kanchipuram, Erode, Nagapattinam and Thoothukudi district indicating that on an average the sample farmers tended to realise 77.4 to 85.8 per cent of their technical abilities and the remaining per cent of their technical abilities were not realized [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In all 225 knowledge items were initially constructed on the basis of promoting thinking rather than rote memorization and differentiate the well informed dairy farmers from the poorly informed ones. The scores from sample respondents were subjected to item analysis, comprising of item difficulty index and item discrimination index. In the final selection, the scale consisted of 28 items with difficulty index ranging from 30 to 80 and discrimination index ranging from 0.30 to 0.55. The reliability of the knowledge test developed was tested by split-half and test-retest method. The coefficient of correlation values in split-half and test-retest method were 0.89 and 0.88 respectively which were found to be significant at 1 per cent level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present investigation was undertaken to study the adoption of buffalo rearing practices in Nanded district during 2010-2011. The results revealed that the category wise adoption index was feeding of buffalo (60.02) followed by general management practices (58.39), breeding practices (54.10) and feeding practices for newly born calf (48.99). The overall adoption index was 53.97. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

India, lags behind on milk quality front. A hilistic approach is necessary to understand the factors inflrencing milk quality. Women mainly are involved in milking and collection of fodder. Men are involved in grazing, feeding and marketing of milk. Awareness about clean milk production and quality of milk was ton. Dairy co-operatives seemed to be important centers for promoting clean milk production. Supporting traditional dairy farmers' communities would help in improving quality of milk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With a specific objective of women's contribution towards dairy enterprise, a study was conducted in 10 villages from two localities of Ganderbal district, Kashmir Valley. A pre-designed questionnaire including the socio-personal and women's contribution in terms of role performance and involvement in decision making process were used to collect the data from women involved completely or partially in dairy operations. Women's role performance was observed at higher side as compare to their counterpart in respect of feeding and management. Fodder cultivation was found to be the joint venture where both male and female of the household participated equally. But in respect of breeding, male members of the family were the major role player. However, farm women's involvement in farm decision making process was observed at lesser intensity except in respect of frequency of feeding and milking, feeding of colostrums and quantum of milk to be sold. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study was carried out in Anand taluka of Gujarat state to identify the management efficiency of milk producers. A random sample of 120 dairy farmers was selected for the study. The result of the study revealed that majority of the milk producers (67.50 per cent) had medium management efficiency regarding improved dairy farming practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Keeping the active role played by women in various dairying activities women dairy cooperatives (WDC) are considered as the nucleus for multifarious activities concerning women development. The results of present study are based on data collected from 100 randomly selected beneficiaries of four WDCs from two districts of Haryana state. The findings indicated that out of nine support services provided by WDC, majority of women beneficiaries had knowledge of four of them i.e. provision of milk testing equipments, subsidy on balanced cattle feed ,distribution of fodder crops seeds and vaccination facilities for foot and mouth disease Fifty eight percent members had knowledge of provision of first aid boxes on subsidized rate and slightly less than half of the beneficiaries were aware of the loaning facilities rendered by WDC for purchasing milch animals. With regards to knowledge regarding training facilities it was observed that majority of women were knowledgeable about green fodder production training and more than half of the respondents possessed knowledge about training on importance of balanced cattle feed and clean milk production training organized at milk plant for society members. Very small percentage of the beneficiaries were informed about trainings like management committee members training, record keeping training, secretary and testers training, disease control and first aid training and A.I. worker training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study was conducted in Chikhali tehsil of Buldhana district of Maharshtra state to identify the problem of dairy farmers in this region. The data were collected randomly from nine villages from this tehsil and 10 farmers from each village were randomly selected having minimum two dairy animals. In this way conducting personnal interview collected data from 90 dairy farmers. During present investigation 64.12% dairy farmers found problem of availability of water, 72.23% found problem of getting green fodder round the year, only 14.44% farmers had crossbred animals, 58.89% farmers found the problem of marketing of produced milk, most of the farmers i.e. 57.78% had not house for dairy animals. 72.22% dairy farmers had land to rear animals. Only 18.88% farmers took advantages of veterinary services and rest of them did not want to take such facility or they did not afford or such facility could not reach up to dairy farmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The investigation was conducted to review the situation of dairying in Marathwada with the objectives to study various trends of milk production and socio-economic status of the dairy farmers. The survey work was carried out on 295 dairy farmers from the milk pocket area of eight districts of Marathwada region. Higher proportions of the dairy farmers were enjoying the benefits of co-operative societies. Twenty per cent dairy farmers believed in proper supply of quality feeds at subsidized rate, 74 per cent dairy farmers have availed the financial facility, 4 per cent get the technical advice from society and only - dairy farmers satisfied with the purchase rate of milk of the society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]