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ThesisItem Open Access AN ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM ON LIVELIHOOD SECURITY OF FARMERS IN NEK REGION(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, RAICHUR, 2015-08-30) RASHTRARAKSHAK; D. G. SATIHAL, SURESH S. PATIL, B. S. REDDYIn recent years, food security, livelihood security, water security as well as natural resource conservation and environment protection emerged as major issues worldwide. The Integrated Farming System (IFS) with multi-enterprises may pave the way for realizing increased productivity and profitability of the farm. Till now, only few studies have been conducted on the economic importance of IFS in this region. Hence, study was conducted in NEK region during 2014-15 and investigated the socio-economic status of IFS farmers, resource use efficiency among IFS and Non- IFS farmers, livelihood pattern of IFS farmers with Non-IFS farmers and performance of different IFS modules in NEK region. A total of 120 responders were selected from for the study. The findings of the study revealed that redgram (44%), paddy (9%) and cotton (7%) were the major crop grown in the study area. The inputs were over utilized, except human labour, bullock labour and plant protection chemicals by both IFS and Non- IFS farmers even though the cost of cultivation of crop production was marginally higher in IFS farmers the net returns also higher in IFS farmers only compared to Non- IFS farmers. The IFS farmers earned their livelihood income from crop production, dairy, sheep and goat rearing, wage earning and petty business. Whereas, Non-IFS farmers earned from crop production, wage earning and petty business. The commonly modules been practiced by IFS farmers were Crop+Dairy, Crop+Dairy+Horticulture, Crop+Dairy+Sericulture, Crop+Dairy+Vermiculture, Crop+Dairy+Goat rearing and Crop+Dairy+Sheep and Goat rearing. Among these the most profitable, financially feasible, and economically viable module was Crop+Dairy+Sheep and Goat rearing as indicated by higher returns per rupee of investment (2.22) in the study area. Overall, the IFS farmers have realized higher income, employment opportunities and better nutritional security because of multidimensional effect of IFS for sustainability and livelihood security.ThesisItem Open Access ROLE OF DAIRY CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN DOUBLING THE FARMERS’ INCOME – A CASE OF KALABURAGI-BIDAR AND YADGIR MILK UNION(2023-12-28) RASHTRARAKSHAK; Dr. JAGRATI B. DESHMANYAstudy was purposively conducted in Kalaburgi-Bidar and Yadgir milk union functioning area during 2019-20. An attempt has made to assess the performance of DCS for the union and study zone and role of DCS on cost and returns structure of milk production, consumption and income of the farmers, also suggest the strategies for doubling the farmers’ income. For the study member and non-member group was done for the comparison and know the effect of DCS with the sample size of 120 members and 120 non- members making a total of 240 samples. From the study it was observed that, nearly half (48.33% and 46.67%) of the DCS members of Zone-I and Zone-II were young aged. Less than half (45.00% and 36.67%) members were attended high school level of education. The average milch animals possessed by members of Zone-I and Zone-II were higher (5.68 and 5.86) than non-members (4.12 and 4.27). The investment done by the respondents across the herd size were increased with increase in herd size in both categories but the members had higher investment (Rs. 73890.60 and 75206.59) than non-members (Rs.55730.08 and 57417.04). The cost of milk production was higher (Rs.127.16 and 136.64) in non-members as compared to members of Zone-I and Zone-II, while returns was higher (Rs.250.84 and 327.76) in members. It was interesting to note that, both respondents of Zone-I and Zone-II were underutilized the resources in comparison with recommendation given by NCR. The strategies made for the doubling of farmers’ income were, the subsidies of input services should be continued and the rate of subsidy should be increased as the subsidies having positive impact on cost, returns and productivity of milk production and also there is a need of increase in milk procurement price to achieve doubling the farmers’ income.