Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension, Bombay Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Parel, Mumbai, 400012, Maharashtra, India
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Online published on 18 May, 2018.
The study was conducted on 120 dairy entrepreneurs in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra to find out their socio-economic status. Dairy entrepreneurs who had at least two milch animals with 3–4 years of dairy experience at the time of investigations were selected as respondents. Majority of dairy entrepreneurs belonged to medium socioeconomic status and had medium information source utilization pattern. The main source of information was the mobile phones which were frequently used by the dairy entrepreneurs. They had medium extension contact with medium social participation.
Socio-economic status, dairy entrepreneurs, information
