Correlates of the Attitudes of Tribal Dairy Farmers towards Dairy Entrepreneurship in Balrampur District of Northern Hill Region, Chhattisgarh

Dairy helps to improve the status of rural masses, particularly vulnerable sections, consisting of small and marginal farmers, landless laborers, and low-income women. The study was conducted during 2018-19 to know the Attitudes of tribal dairy farmers towards dairy entrepreneurship in the Balrampur district of northern hill region, Chhattisgarh. The results of the study found that the majority of respondents had neutral (74%) Attitude of tribal dairy farmers toward dairy entrepreneurship. The study further revealed that among Seventeen independent variables viz. Age, Gender, Caste, Family Size, Family Type, Experience in Dairy Farming, Education, Social participation, Mass media Exposure, Social contact, landholding, Economic motivation, Income Status, livestock possession, Total milk production, milk consumption and milk sale, where six variables show the positive significant relationship at 1 per cent level and two variables 5 per cent level of probability respectively. The regression analysis showed that all 17 Background variables combined had a significant change in attitude to the 35.80 per cent range. Path analysis shows that the Income status had the highest total effect on the Attitudes of tribal dairy farmers towards dairy entrepreneurship, where the total milk production and the milk sale had the second and third total effect respectively.