Socio-Economic Status of Tribal Farm Women as Influenced by Milk Cooperatives

A study was undertaken to assess the socio economic status of tribal farm women as influenced by village milk cooperatives in Valsad district of Gujarat state. Women administered primary village milk cooperatives are nucleus for multifarious activities related from milk production to its marketing and thereby very much concerned for socioeconomic development of tribal farm women in the district. The members of village milk cooperative societies with high education, large family size, higher land holding, large herd size, higher annual income, more social participation, high risk orientation and more extension contact led to higher socioeconomic status in the village society.