Assessment of training to farm women on value addition of milk
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2020-12-23
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Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu (J&K)
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India is one of those countries where the farm gate level cost of milk production is the lowest. The overall value-added products contribute to 35% of the India’s total dairy market and together commodity products contribute to nearly 65% of market share. Value-addition work is a vehicle for women’s empowerment. Keeping in view the importance of value addition of milk in enhancing the socio-economic as well as decision making components of empowerment of farm women and also the entrepreneurial abilities, a number of training programmes had been organised by Livestock Products Technology division of Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, SKUAST-Jammu in different blocks of Jammu district under DST (GoI) funded project.As no assessment study regarding value addition of milk was earlier conducted from any area or region, therefore ‘Assessment of training to farm women on value addition of milk’ in Jammu district of UT of J&K was undertaken. The data were collected from 2 blocks of Jammu district taking 100 female respondents(50 beneficiaries and 50 non beneficiaries).
Among the socio-personal and economic profile of farm women, it was found that majority of trainee respondents were young, either middle pass or matriculate, having marginal land holding and nuclear family, medium herd size, low experience in dairy farming and value addition of milk but they (82%) had high income from dairying (by selling milk and milk products) after getting training as compared to non -trainees. It was also found that trainee farm women had significantly higher mass media exposure and extension contact as compared to non-trainee farm women. It was also revealed that on an average trainees had 76.36 liters of milk per day at their disposal for value addition of milk, whereas, non-trainees had only 31.80 liters of milk per day. Majority (86%) of the trainee respondents were sure and confident that selling milk after value addition was more profitable venture than selling liquid milk as well as good source of employment generation. Income from dairying constituted 88 per cent of total annual income of trainee respondents, whereas, in case of non-trainees it was64 per cent. This shows farm women after getting training on value addition of milk received 24 per cent more income from dairying (mainly from value addition of milk).Trainee farm women had high to medium level of knowledge regarding value addition of milk, whereas, non-trainee had medium to low level.