Journal of Krishi Vigyan

Dairy farming is one of the most important agro based industries for solving the problems of employment and rural poverty in India. Management of Livestock and milk production has been one of the sectors in India where female work force participation is high. Training plays an important role in the advancement of human performance in a given situation and provides a systematic improvement of knowledge and skills which in turn helps the trainees to function effectively and efficiently in their given task on completion of the training. The present investigation was carried out in Chhotaudepur district of Gujarat located in the eastern part of the State of Gujarat. The boundary of Chhotaudepur district touches to Vadodara, Panch Mahal, Dahod, Narmada and State of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. The Chhotaudepur district is an important tribal majority milk pocket in the Gujarat state. The present study indicated that seasonal migration for labourers was the most serious constraint (86.11%) followed by low literacy rate in tribal area (85.00%), tribal farm women are very shy in nature (83.61%), poor economic condition (83.00%), inadequate support from government to purchasing dairy animals (81.11%), and least constraints perceived by farm women was social security (54.72%), lack of local farm women organizations (48.89%), and non availability of training facilities related to livestock management (40.55%).