Knowledge of Women Beneficiaries Regarding Various Aspects of Dairy Cooperatives

Women are the key figures in dairying and contribute more than men folk. Women dairy cooperatives (WDC) are considered as the nucleus for multifarious activities concerning women development. The results of present study are based on data collected from 100 randomly selected beneficiaries of four WDCs from two districts of Haryana state. The findings indicate that out of seven objectives, most of the women beneficiaries were aware of only two objectives of WDC. Although women had knowledge of role of cooperatives in training of women in animal care and management and bringing about economic equality but it was limited to a small segment of the respondents. The knowledge of women about organizational aspects suggested that majority of women had knowledge of membership criteria of WDC and name of society secretary but knowledge of women about number of members and amount of milk required to get the society registered, name of society chairperson and mode of selection of secretary and chairperson was very small. Majority of the members had knowledge of rate fixation parameter, fat testing, place of milk being transferred from WDC, utilization of milk at milk plant and frequency of payment however, provision of bonus was the only one aspect about which majority of the respondents were ignorant.