Society of Extension Education GujaratPublished: Gujarat Journal of Extension Education (ISSN 2322-0678)
Society of Extension Education GujaratAbstract: The present study was undertaken in selected villages from two Panchayat Samities i.e. Akola and Barshitakli of Akola district in Maharashtra State. An exploratory design of social research was used for present study. A random sample of 100 dairy farmer were selected as respondents from these two panchayat samities, those who have five years of experience in dairy farming and have more than four milch animal. The data was collected from them and used for analysis and interpretation. The results revealed that, 44.00 per cent of them were in middle age group category, nearly above one third (34%) were educated upto high school level (8th std. to 10th std.), near about half i.e. 48 per cent of the dairy farmers possessed Semi-medium (2.01 to 4.0 ha) category of land holding. The annual income of the 45 per cent and 44 per cent dairy farmers were have upto Rs. 50000/- and Rs. 50001 to Rs. 1,00,000/-, respectively. Majority of them (66%) have 7-12 years of experience in the dairy farming and 74 per cent possessed 5-10 milch animals. More than fifty per cent of the dairy farmers i.e. 56 per cent lived in joint family system and 42 per cent of them have 6-11 members in their family. Majority of the dairy farmers 64 per cent and 60 per cent were in medium category of economic motivation and scientific orientation category, respectively. More than half of the dairy farmers (56%) observed in low category of socio economic status. The relational analysis showed that the variables like land holding, annual income, herd size, economic motivation, scientific orientation and knowledge about improved dairy management practices were found highly significant with socio-economic status of the dairy farmer. It clearly had shown that as these variables increases, socio-economic status of the dairy farmer increases.
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