Knowledge and adoption of modern dairying and animal husbandry practices under dairy co-operative societies

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Amravati and Akola district purposively selected because in these districts there is maximum milk production among the entire district in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra State. This ultimately leads to the large beneficiary members. There are a total number of 60 milk cooperative societies running in Akola and Amravati districts. Out of which the ten Dairy Co-operative Societies were selected purposively from each district was having significant number of dairy co-operatives. From the list of 20 dairy Co-operative Societies total 200 respondents were randomly selected. Approximately, 10 regular members of each dairy co-operative society from last 5 years were selected for the study. The salient findings of the present study revealed that large proportionate i.e. 85.00 per cent of DCS members had high level of knowledge and remaining 15.00 per cent had medium level of knowledge about modern dairying of animal husbandry and dairy management practices. In case of adoption majority of DCS members had medium to high level of adoption about modern dairying and animal husbandry practices.