Indian Journal of Extension Education
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 57
  • Issue: 1

Involvement of women in decision making of different dairy farm activities

1Assistant Professor (Contractual), Department of Livestock Production Management, College of Veterinary Science, Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University

2Assistant Professor Department of Livestock Production Management, NTR College of Veterinary Science, Gannavaram

3Professor (Retired) Department of Livestock Production Management, NTR College of Veterinary Science, Gannavaram

4Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Veterinary Science, GarividiAndhra Pradesh

Online published on 11 January, 2022.

Abstract

A group of 225 women were randomly selected from five animal husbandry divisions in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh for the study. The study showed that the majority of the women in the study region took part in decision making on most of the dairy farm activities, such as choosing the breed of the animal (68%), taking loans (79.11), purchase/sale of animals (81.33), insurance of animals (77.77%), culling of animals (69.33%), construction of sheds (70.22%), farm expansion (72%), feeding of animals (77.33%), breeding practices (66.22%) health care of animals (87.55%), management of new born calves (88%), pregnant (87.11%) and sick (86.22%) animals and 69.33 per cent of the women were taking self decision regarding preparation of milk products.

Keywords

Dairy, Decision-making, Management practices, Milk disposal, Women