Akila, NSenthilvel, KBharathy, NTANUVAS2021-08-182021-08-182014-01https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810172207TNV_INCOW_2014_11(39)9-13Dairy farming is an age old practice and generally farmers keep 2-3 milch animals to meet out the family need as well as for sale by converting free feed stuff available in their field into milk. This provides the female members of the family to generate a considerable amount of income for their family expenses. When the members face risk like, animals are not in milk for months/years together ie. Dry animal, death of a lactating animal, increasing feed cost and infertile animal leads to the reduction of the household income and would probably force the family to abandon rearing dairy animals. Improved breeding services, health care with low cost balanced feeding practices may be helpful to overcome these risks and when the farmers adopted the scientific technologies related to feeding and breeding the possibilities of occurrence of risks will be minimized and assist to manage the occupation in a profitable manner.EnglishVeterinary ScienceArticle