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Constraints Faced by Farm Women in Dairy Farming


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1 Department of Extension Education, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahmednagar, India
2 College of Agriculture, Nagpur, M.S., India
     

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The present study on constraints faced by farm women in dairy farming was undertaken in Kalmeshwar Tahsil of Nagpur district of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state with sample size of 100 dairy farm women from 15 villages. The exploratory research design of social research was used in the present investigation. Dairy farming plays an important role in social and economical livelihood of the farmers. The constraints faced by farm women while dairy farming were; high cost of quality concentrate feeds (98.00%) and high cost needed for purchasing crossbred animals and veterinary medicine (95.00%), followed by decline in performance of exotic animals due to the high temperature (94.00%) and low water profile and lack of irrigation facilities (85.00%), inadequacy of green fodder round the year (82.00%) and nonremunerative price for milk (80.00%), Based on the assumption that the dairy farmers in Kalmeshwar Tahsil of Nagpur district were facing the crucial hindrance in the adoption of the scientific dairying. So the present research was taken to get an insight into the constraints and the gravity of these factors affecting the dairy farmers of this region.

Keywords

Constraints, Farm Women, Dairy Farming
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Authors

R. A. Kale
Department of Extension Education, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahmednagar, India
V. S. Tekale
College of Agriculture, Nagpur, M.S., India
J. H. Gaikwad
Department of Extension Education, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahmednagar, India

Abstract


The present study on constraints faced by farm women in dairy farming was undertaken in Kalmeshwar Tahsil of Nagpur district of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state with sample size of 100 dairy farm women from 15 villages. The exploratory research design of social research was used in the present investigation. Dairy farming plays an important role in social and economical livelihood of the farmers. The constraints faced by farm women while dairy farming were; high cost of quality concentrate feeds (98.00%) and high cost needed for purchasing crossbred animals and veterinary medicine (95.00%), followed by decline in performance of exotic animals due to the high temperature (94.00%) and low water profile and lack of irrigation facilities (85.00%), inadequacy of green fodder round the year (82.00%) and nonremunerative price for milk (80.00%), Based on the assumption that the dairy farmers in Kalmeshwar Tahsil of Nagpur district were facing the crucial hindrance in the adoption of the scientific dairying. So the present research was taken to get an insight into the constraints and the gravity of these factors affecting the dairy farmers of this region.

Keywords


Constraints, Farm Women, Dairy Farming