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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 |
India is a developing country. Agriculture and livestock husbandry plays crucial role in Indian rural economy. Dairy husbandry is an integral part of rural livelihood adopted as income generating activity by majority of the rural people. Women play a significant role in dairy development, even after many custom discriminations against them. Entrepreneurial attributes of one’s personality indicate the success of an enterprise managed by individual. With this background an attempt have been made to study level of participation of women and men members in dairy husbandry practices, Milkipur block of Faizabad District in Uttar Pradesh, India. For the purpose multistage sample and single random sampling designs were applied and 100 dairy cooperative members (50 men and 50 women) were interviewed with the help of structured and pre-tested interview schedule. Ten entrepreneurial attributes were studied and its relationship with income generated through dairy husbandry was also confuted. The Overall Participation in dairy farming activities, the majority of male milk cooperative members in medium category (52%). Likewise, in case of female milk cooperative members majority in medium category (76%). Thus, it may be concluded that the female milk cooperative members were found better as compared to male milk cooperative members in Overall Participation in dairy farming activities Focused that out of twenty-one selected independent variables, only five variables i.e. extension contact, entrepreneurial behavior, milk production, milk consumption and milk marketed were found highly significantly (P<0.01) and positively correlated with the income through dairy cooperative. That is out of twenty-one selected independent variables, only four variables i.e. Social Participation, Participation in Health care, milk production and milk consumption were found significantly (P<0.05) and positively correlated with the employment through dairy cooperative. The both dependent variables income generation and employment generation are positively and significantly (P<0.05) correlated with each other.