Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Gurunath Pasare, Prashant G Waghmare, Vivek M Patil, Satish Chandra Biradar, Prakashkumar Rathod and Shrikant Dodamani

Abstract:
The study was conducted to document the Socio Economic Status of indigenous cattle farmers, total of 150 farmers were selected randomly. Ten variables viz. age, education, family size, occupation, category, landholding, herd size, dairy farming experience and annual income were selected to assess the SES. Data was collected through a structured interview schedule by personal interview method and found that 64% of respondents are belong to middle age group and most were having education up to primary level (41.33%). Majority of them found having nuclear family (72.67%) with medium family size (58%). Agriculture was the sole occupation of 75.33% farmers whereas others had subsidiary occupations like labour, shop keeping, driving etc. Further, 65.33% of the respondents belongs to backward category. The majority of farmers (38.67%) own marginal landholding up to one hectare and most were having a small herd size (69.33%). The respondents had high dairy farming experience of more than 10 years. Most of the farmers had medium level of annual income (60.67%).