This study was conducted on 150 village leaders selected from 30 villages of 3 talukas with 5 respondents from each village of Hingoli district of Maharashtra state to ascertain the personnel and socio-economic characteristic, Overall distribution of village leaders according to their role performance in dairy development activities, their relationship and constraints faced by village leaders in dairy development activities. The respondents were personally interviewed with a specially designed interview schedule. The study revealed that majority of the village leaders were found in middle age category, educated upto secondary school, form open category, had agriculture major occupation, medium income group, had big land holding, medium size of family, from nuclear family, medium social participation had high exposure to sources of information had medium herd size, received medium training. The correlation between role performance with education, occupation, annual income, land holding, family size, family type, social participation, sources of information, herd size, training received was positive and significant while age and cast had negative and non-significant relationship. Regarding overall distribution of the village leaders play medium role performance in dairy development activities, followed by low and high role performance. The majority of the village leaders expressed inadequate loans supply, high cost of shed construction for animal keeping, lack of availability of labour, Lack of artificial insemination technology and veterinarians.
Village leaders, Constraints, Dairy development activities, Role performance
