Personal, socio-economic and communicational profile of tribal and non-tribal dairy farmers

The study was done in the 4 development blocks having relatively higher intensity of mix population of tribal and non-tribal farmers of Cachar district of Assam which is known for being the mini gateway for other neighboring tribal states of the North-East namely Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Manipur giving rise to interwoven cultures including animal husbandry and dairying. Altogether 100 randomly selected dairy farmers were considered as respondents. Most of the tribal dairy farmers belonged to middle age group, were from Cachari community, had small and nuclear family with agriculture as primary occupation, having middle school educational status, maintained medium herd size and farm size. Most of them had medium average milk production, low average milk disposal, medium average milk consumption, medium annual family income, low annual family income from dairying and no social participation. In case of non-tribal farmers, majorities belonged to middle age group, were from Bengali community, had small and nuclear family, had agriculture as primary occupation, high school educational status, maintained medium herd size and farm size. Majority of them had medium average milk production, low average milk disposal, medium average milk consumption, medium annual income, low annual family income from dairying with no social participation. Majority of the farmers had medium level of communication.