INFLUENCE OF DAIRY ENTERPRISE ON LIVELIHOODS AND POVERTY REDUCTION: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN THE RURALURBAN INTERFACE OF BENGALURU
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2019-08-22
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
The study aims at assessing the influence of dairying on livelihood and poverty
reduction in the rural-urban interface of North and South Bengaluru. Each transect
consist of three layers viz., rural, transition and urban. A sample of 50 dairy households
from rural and transition layer including 20 from urban and 20 non-dairy households
from each layer were selected for the study. Thus total sample consisted of 240 dairy
households and 120 non-dairy households. Results indicated that the dairy respondents
were found to be relatively young compared to non-dairy respondents. The annual
income was higher in the case of dairy sample households (Rs.2,93,402) than non-dairy
sample households (Rs.1,35,110).The livelihood index value was higher among dairy
sample households (0.99) than the non-dairy sample households (0.70). Per day
maintenance cost for local and crossbred cows was Rs.58.34 and Rs.104.34 respectively.
While the milk yield from crossbred cow (5.13lt.) was significantly higher than local
cows (2.39lt.). Per day per cow gross return were Rs.132.75 and Rs.62.48 in respect of
crossbred and local cows, respectively. Thus, rearing of crossbred cows was more
profitable than local cows. The average milk price realised by dairy sample households
was more in channel-I (Rs.26/-) for local cows whereas crossbred cows milk fetched
higher price in channel-III (Rs.25.17). There was an higher degree of equity in the
distribution of income across urban, transition and rural household as revealed by the
value of the Gini coefficient for dairy sample households (0.31) than non-dairy sample
households (0.50).The dairy women even with lower education and less time spent in
dairy activities earned more income than non-dairy women. In dairy sample households,
the poverty reduction was observed across all the layers of both north and south transect
except rural layers of south transect. Whereas poverty still existed among the non-dairy
farmers in all the three layers.