A Comparative Study on Dairy and Non-Dairy Farmers in Belgaum District
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Date
2013
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
The present study was conducted in Belgaum district of Karnataka during the year
2012-13. The seventy two dairy and 72 non dairy farmers were selected randomly to
constitute sample of 144. Structured interview schedule was used to collect the information
through personal interview. Data was analyzed by using suitable statistical tools like mean,
frequency, Standard deviation and correlation. The findings of the study revealed that most of
dairy farmers (37.50%) had medium knowledge level and majority (65.28%) of them
belonged to medium level of adoption category. The socio-economic profile of dairy and non
dairy farmers revealed that 54.17 per cent of dairy farmers and 51.39 per cent non-dairy
farmers belong to old aged, whereas nearly one third of dairy and non dairy farmers educated
up to high school level. Fifty per cent of dairy and 43.06 per cent of non dairy farmers had
medium annual income and less than half (45.83%) of the dairy and non dairy farmers
(40.28%) had big size of landholding. However, nearly fifty per cent (48.61%) of dairy and
cent per cent of non dairy farmers had medium and low experience in dairying. Less than
fifty percent (44.44%) of dairy and more than fifty percent (65.28%) of non dairy farmers had
medium and low herd size. Majority (65.28%) of dairy and fifty percent of non dairy farmers
had medium and low extension contact. Land holding, dairy experience, extension contact,
cropping pattern and subsidiary occupation showed positive and significant relationship at
1% level of probability.
The constraints expressed by dairy farmers were non availability of labour,
insufficient bank finance for purchase of milch animals, lack of training and non
remunerative price of milk.