Studies on Prospects and Constraints of Dairying in Chikhali

The study was conducted in Chikhali tehsil of Buldhana district of Maharshtra state to identify the problem of dairy farmers in this region. The data were collected randomly from nine villages from this tehsil and 10 farmers from each village were randomly selected having minimum two dairy animals. In this way conducting personnal interview collected data from 90 dairy farmers. During present investigation 64.12% dairy farmers found problem of availability of water, 72.23% found problem of getting green fodder round the year, only 14.44% farmers had crossbred animals, 58.89% farmers found the problem of marketing of produced milk, most of the farmers i.e. 57.78% had not house for dairy animals. 72.22% dairy farmers had land to rear animals. Only 18.88% farmers took advantages of veterinary services and rest of them did not want to take such facility or they did not afford or such facility could not reach up to dairy farmers.