Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development

  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue: 2

Analyzing the relationship between farm waste production and demographic profile of dairy farmers of Punjab#

  • Author:
  • Vimla Saran1, Y.S. Jadoun2,*, Jaswinder Singh3
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Published Online: Sep 10, 2025
  • Page Number: 440 to 446

1Division of Extension Education, ICAR-IVRI, Izatnagar, Bareilly-243122, Uttar Pradesh

2Department of Dairy Extension Education, SGIDT, BASU-Patna-800014, Bihar

3Department of VAHEE, CoVAS, GADVASU, Ludhiana, Punjab

Abstract

An exploratory study was conducted in two districts viz; Ludhiana and Pathankot of Punjab to understand relationship between farm waste production and demographic profile of respondents. Sample size was 160 dairy farmers (80 from Ludhiana and 80 from Pathankot district) were selected through multistage random sampling. Education and family size were having significant (p<0.05) with farm waste production and Land holding, Type of dairy farm, Livestock holding as livestock equivalent were highly significant (p<0.01) with the production of farm waste at dairy farms. So, that as land holding increases, education status improves, large family size and greater herd size leading to more fam waste production at their dairy farms which tends towards commercial dairying.

Keywords

Adoption, Dairy farmers, Demographic profile, Farm waste