ECONOMIC IMPACT OF DAIRY COOPERATIVES ON RURAL HOUSEHOLDS OF SOUTHERN RAJASTHAN

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2011
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MPUAT, Udaipur
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Dairy development programmes have played a major role in increasing the milk productivity, improving the nutritional standards of the people, generating employment opportunities, improving income level as well as reducing income inequalities in rural areas, especially for small and marginal farmers, threw dairy cooperatives and women dairy cooperatives. The present investigation was carried out to study the economic impact of dairy cooperatives on DCS households and WDCS households with special focus on the physical and financial performance, economics of milk production, input- output relationship, resource use efficiency, production, consumption and marketed surplus of milk, income and employment generation in southern Rajasthan. The study was based on primary data collected threw 150 sample households comprising of 75 DCS members and 75 WDCS members for the year 2008-09. Tabular analysis and functional analysis were employed to analyze the data to achieve the specified objectives of the study. The performance of khedli among WDCS and bichadi in DCS group was found better. The per day average net cost of maintaining a buffalo was relatively higher for WDCS group(Rs. 115.38) than DCS group (Rs. 100.38), while corresponding figures for maintaining cow were (Rs.56.14) and (Rs. 79.71), respectively. The average net maintenance cost decreased with increase in herd size categories in both the groups. The per liter cost of buffalo milk production was worked out to be (Rs. 10.25) and (Rs. 14.13) and that of cow milk production Rs. 7.87 and Rs. 6.57 for DCS and WDCS, respectively. The regression coefficients of green fodder, dry fodder and veterinary expenditure had positive and significant influence on returns from buffalo milk production in both the groups. The value of green fodder, dry fodder, concentrate and value of labour had positive and significant influence on returns from cow milk production in WDCS whereas only value of concentrate was found positive and significant in DCS households. Marginal value productivity of various inputs for buffaloes indicated green fodder was under utilized in DCS group while it was over utilized by WDCS group. In case of cows green fodder and concentrate was under utilized by both the groups. The average daily production, consumption and marketed surplus of milk were higher in DCS then WDCS group. The percent marketed surplus of milk to total production was higher in the WDCS group (73.74 percent) then the DCS group (69.92 percent). The milk production had a positive and significant influence while the family size had a negative influence on the marketed surplus by both the groups. The overall average net income was significantly higher in the DCS households (Rs. 15108.57) then WDCS households (Rs. 5972.61). The Gini- concentration ratio for DCS group was lower (0.49) then the WDCS group (0.62) indicating the income from dairying is to be more equitably distributed in DCS group. The overall labour utilization in the DCS households was more (271.46 mandays) then the WDCS households (232.06 mandays). The average men, women and children labour use per households per annum for DCS group were 147.06, 107.67 and 16.72 mandays respectively, accounting for 54.14, 39.66 and 6.15 percent of total labour use. The corresponding figures for WDCS group were 69.65, 137.02, 25.39 mandays accounting 29.97, 59.04, 10.94 percent of total labour use. The emphasis should be given to promote the DCS compared to WDCS as DCS has better management over WDCS. Women alone can not perform all the activities related to dairying efficiently.
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ECONOMIC IMPACT, DAIRY, COOPERATIVES, RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
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Jhagrawat and Pant, 2011
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