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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A sample of 120 female respondents were randomly selected from 6 mandals of Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh and interviewed to understand the importance and involvement of rural women in different activities relating to livestock farming and to study the impact of various socioeconomic factors on women’s participation. The results of the present study revealed that, the majority of farm women were engaged in cleaning of animals (77.5%), cleaning of shed (81.67%), breeding of animals (25%), caring of diseased animals (51.67%), Marketing (60%), fodder cutting (41.67%), fodder carrying (47.50%), taking for grazing (71.67%), feeding at home(81.67%), watering of animals (89.17%), manure collection (80.83%), making dung cakes (44.17%), milking (52.50 %) and calf rearing (73.33%).