Impact assessment of dairy farming on livelihood of poor rural farmers

Animal husbandry activities have been identified as a tool for the upliftement of the rural poor farmers. In India where the dairy production is mostly from the small dairy farmers who have dairying as a subsidiary to agriculture or main activity, studying the present scenario of the farming systems will show the impact of the dairy farming on the livelihood of the rural poor farmers. Hence this present study was undertaken with the help of World Vision, a non-government organisation and data on various aspects of dairy management were collected and analysed and conclusions were drawn for the upliftement and sustainability of the rural farmers.