期刊名称：Liminalities : a Journal of Performance Studies
电子版ISSN：1557-2935
出版年度：2016
卷号：79
页码：27 to 33-27 to 33
语种：English
出版社：Liminalities
其他摘要：India is an agriculture based country and livestock sector is an integral component. Women play crucial and significant role in livestock rearing, all spheres of economic life and contribute richly towards national income. A survey study was conducted to acquire the first hand information on constraints faced by dairy farm women in dairy farming studied in Junagadh district of Gujarat state, India. A simple random sampling technique was used in the selection of dairy farm women. The total sample constitutes 200 dairy farm women, four talukas and five village from each taluka. Total ten (10) respondents selected from each village of the district. The data were collected by personal interview technique through a structural schedule and rank analysis method should be used for data analysis. Dairy farm women were facing the major constraints as non-remunerative price for milk, unavailability of skilled labourer, unavailability of cheap and quality green fodder round the year, high cost of concentrate mixture, unavailability of cheap and quality green fodder round the year, lack of knowledge about vaccination against contagious disease and lack of knowledge of improved breed of cattle/buffalo.KEY WORD: Constraints, Dairy farming, Farm women, Fodder, Milk.
