Employment generate by women milk producers’ cooperative societies in rural Punjab

Dairy Cooperatives have been creating more employment and income generation opportunities to rural women. Women handle most of the productive aspects of animal care, feeding, watering, cleaning animals and sheds, milking, collecting dung, preparation of cow dung cakes and making milk product etc, and despite their substantial role in the activities relating to the dairying, socio-cultural conventions have severely limited their access to organized public programs and activities in the dairying sector, thus restricting their participation in the cooperative system. It is an attempt to examine the labour utilization by Women Milk Producers’ Cooperative Societies (WMPCS) respondents in Punjab and to examine the district wise labour utilization by Women Milk Producers’ Cooperative Societies (WMPCS) in Punjab. The study is based on primary data collected from Punjab State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Limited (MILKFED) in Punjab’ Women Milk Producers’ Cooperative Societies’ (WMPCS) respondents in Ropar, Patiala and Sangrur districts, books, journals and internet etc. The main findings of the study are the highest time is spent on labour activities on grass cutting and other work related dairy activities, lowest time is spent on milking and selling milk. They are providing employment opportunities and eradication of poverty. They are more over time spent on grass cutting, bringing fodder, feeding to animal, shed cleaning, animal wash, milking, selling milk and others work related to dairy activities.