RELATIVE INVOLVEMENT OF MEN AND WOMEN IN DAIRYING
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Date
1992-05-07
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COLLEGE OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES Mannuthy - Thrissur
Abstract
The objectives of the study were, to assess the extent of
physical involvement and involvement in decision-taking by men
and women in dairy management practices, to probe into the
influence of women in the adoption of practices, to study the
extent of adoption of selected aspects in dairying, the reasons
for non-adept ion/partial adoption of the practices, if any, to
study the influence of selected socio-economic factors on
adoDtion and to reveal the knowledge level of men and women about
dairy management practices.
The study v/as conducted among the members of the milk
producers' co-operative society, Vilanganoor- The data were
collected through personal interview using pre-tested interviev;
schedule. Variables were measured using appropriate scales and
suitable statistical tools v/ere used for analysing the data.
The study revealed that majority of husbands and wives had
medium knowledge level. Husbands had significantly higher
knowledge than v/ives in general even though there was no
significant difference in the aspects of feeding, milking and
breeding.
In the aspects of housing and feeding the physical
involvement of wives was significantly higher. In all the other
aspects husbands' scores were significantly higher except in the
case of milking where there was not much difference.
In decision-taking, the husbands had significantly higher
involvement in all aspects except feeding and milking. It was
also noted that the children had important role in these two
aspects in few households.
There was a high rate of adoption of practices related to
the selected aspects in dairying among the respondents (mean
adoption index - 86.037). The physical involvement of women in
the adoption and their involvement in decision-taking though not
significant in general indicate their fairly good influence in
the adoption of dairy husbandry practices.
The correlation coefficients worked out revealed that out of
the 13 socio-economic factors included in the study, only the
land holding, experience in dairying, availability of profes
sional help at farmers' premises and occupation had significant
association with adoption. Experience in dairying had significant
positive correlation with adoption of scientific selection in
the case of husbands. Similarly land holding was positively^|pd
significantly associated with adoption of scientific housing.
Availability of professional help at farmers' premises v;as
significantly and negatively correlated with adoption of
scientific housing, while it had highly significant positive
correlation with adoption of scientific treatment. Occupation of
husbands and adoption of practices in the aspect of feeding were
highly significantly and negatively correlated. Occupation had
significant negative correlation with adoption of aspects in
general in the case of husbands. Since the value of multiple
regression analysis v/as low no further analysis was done.
The major constraints faced l^y farmers in the adoption of
scientific practices were lack of money, high cost of feed,
repeat breeding and non-availability of medicines.
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