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Original Research Articles                      Volume : 10, Issue:1, January, 2021

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Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci.2021.10(1): 988-995
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2021.1001.120


A Study on Socio-economic Profile of the Dairy Farmers in Central Plain Zone of Uttar Pradesh
Awadhesh Kumar Singh*, Arun Kumar Singh and Saikat Maji
Department of Extension Education, IAS, BHU, Varanasi, India
*Corresponding author
Abstract:

Dairy farming play very important role in improving the income of the farmers. The study was conducted to investigate the socio-economic and communication profile of the dairy farmers of central plain zone of Uttar Pradesh. The present explore the different aspect of dairy farming and status of milk production, consumption and sale. For the study central plain zone and Uttar Pradesh was selected purposively. From the zone two districts were selected randomly and from the each district two blocks were selected randomly. Two villages from each block were selected randomly. 10 per cent of dairy farmers were selected proportionate randomly sampling from the total household of each village. The criteria of the respondents were the dairy farmers should have at least one lactating dairy animal at the time of investigation. From the study it was observed that majority (46.97%) of the respondents belong to middle age group and 25.15 per cent respondents had middle education category. 47.27 per cent respondents had more than 25 year of experience in dairying and 57.27 per cent respondents had medium family size. 56.67 per cent respondents had medium level of income and 70.00 per cent respondents had crop farming as their primary occupation.46.36 per cent respondents had less than one hectare of land. in case of milk production more than half (50.03%) of the respondents fall in medium category. 56.36 per cent respondents had medium level of social participation and 49.39 per cent respondents had medium level of mass media exposure.


Keywords: Milk production, Communication, Dairy farming, Education

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Awadhesh Kumar Singh, Arun Kumar Singh and Saikat Maji. 2021. A Study on Socio-economic Profile of the Dairy Farmers in Central Plain Zone of Uttar Pradesh.Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 10(1): 988-995. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2021.1001.120
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