Feasibility of dairy farming as an enterprise for women
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Date
2011
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CCSHAU
Abstract
Present study was conducted in Hisar District of Haryana state, purposively. From Hisar
district, two blocks Adampur and Hisar-I were selected randomly. From selected blocks two villages,
namely, Siswal from Adampur and Dabra from Hisar-1 were selected by random technique. From each
selected village, fifty women were selected randomly, thus making total sample of 100 women. From
selected villages, 20 women who were interested for training on dairy farming were selected
purposively. A set of 20 independent variables and three dependent variables were selected. Need
assessment, impact of training and feasibility were selected as dependent variables. Need assessment
was assessed in terms of frequency, importance, difficulty and knowledge. Impact of training was
assessed in terms of dairy farm women i.e. gain in knowledge, change in attitude and symbolic
adoption. The collected data was quantified and interpreted by using suitable statistical tools. Majority
of the respondents belonged to young age group, illiterate and joint family of medium size. Majority of
respondents were doing farming and annual income belonged to medium category (40,000-60,000) and
had small herd size. Most of the respondents (25%) had medium land holding and lived in a pacca
house, respondents had high level of change proneness and medium risk orientation. Majority of intra
family and entrepreneurial decisions were by husbands. Most of the respondents had low mass media
exposure and had medium level of information source utilization. Training was resulting in significant
knowledge gain, favourable change in attitude and symbolic adoption of dairy farming was observed as
medium to high in majority of respondents. Dependent variables milking and milk product preparation,
deworming, care and management of calves, breeding, post parturition care, marketing and bedding was
found significantly correlated with independent variables. All the selected independent variable were
non significantly correlated with watering wallowing and bathing, housing management of cattle shed,
animal health, milking and milk product preparation and farm management and accounting. The
comparison of knowledge gain and change in attitude of two villages indicated that there was no
significant difference between village Dabra and Siswal.
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Economic systems, Livestock, Animal husbandry, Dairy farms, Biological phenomena, Imports, Productivity, Economics, Manpower, Participation