Need Assessment of Women Dairy Farmers
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Abstract
The present study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state. 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, 50 women were selected randomly, thus making a total sample
of 100 women. From selected villages, 20 women who were interested in training in dairy farming were selected
purposively. Majority of the respondents belonged to middle age group, illiterate, married and belonged to joint family of
medium family size. Eighty-four per cent respondents had no social participation and had small herd size. Most of the
respondents (25%) had medium land holding and lived in pacca houses. Training need score was obtained highest for the
task housing management of cattle shed (Mean-76.83 and rank-I), followed by animal health, watering, wallowing and
bathing, breeding, post-parturition care, bedding, care and management of calves, feeding, marketing, farm management
and accounting and milking and milk product preparation ranked from II to XI, respectively. Similarly, training need was
high for animal health (ranked-II) but dairy farm women had high knowledge (74.1) and low difficulty (2.19). It was
surprise to see that after computing frequency, importance, difficulty and knowledge of last ranks were given to farm
management and accounting (X rank) and milking and milk product preparation (XI rank) but highest learning difficulty
by dairy farm women was perceived for these components. It was also interesting to note that negligible percentage of
respondents performed tasks of dairy farm management and accounting and marketing where money matters were
involved.
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