Role of Dairy Co-Operative in the Economic Uplift of Dairy Farmers in Budaun District of Uttar Pradesh (India)

Abstract

The study was conducted in Budaun district of U.P. Using appropriate sampling technique five blocks of Budaun district were identified as study area. Five villages (societies) from each block and 10 members and five non-member milk producer-seller from each village were randomly included in the sample .. Regarding land holding, around 95 percent animals were maintained within small, marginal and land- less households of small dairy enterprise, while more than 90 percent milch animals were kept by small, medium and large land holders of medium dairy enterprise that 90 percent animals of large enterprise were maintained by only medium and large landholders, hence landless and marginal landholders could not maintained by any animals in the members group.h primary and secondary data The results also indicated that the large farmers possessed results of analysis of impact on knowledge of health care, knowledge of feeding knowledge of dairy management and knowledge of breeding could be observed that differences were highly significant between different pairs of control. significantly higher level of knowledge over small farmer. total 250 milk producers, small, medium and large were 145, 95 and 10 respectively member group while 47, 53 and 25 non-members group have been used in the study Some parameters that have a crucial role and direct bearing on the productivity of milch animals and in the of economics of the milk production were also analyzed. cost of milk production was low in winter season and highest in summer season .It was also observed that better feeding pattern was found in member of the society than non-members in each categories (sit was interesting to note that small farmer had maximum production (5.15 kg/animaVday) followed by medium (4.28 kglan1maVday) and large (3.60 kg/animaVday). Intensive care and better feeding were the most important causes of maximum production of milch animal for small farmers. According to regression analysis, value of concentrate used day"1was the important variant on milk productivity for each season and each categorymall, medium and large according to estimated mean and 't' valuesA well as calf mortality had significant difference between member and non-member. Further, it could be observed that mortality in calf was maximum in large (54.13 percent) followed by medium (44.57 percent) and small (32.4 percent) Milk cooperative should arrange proper transport facilities to all the societies including those situated to in the interior villages to mitigate the hardships of the milk producers vis-a-vis to boost up the milk procurement Adequate facilities for the availability of green and concentrate mixture should be made on one hand and on another the farmers must be motivated to go for cultivation of green fodder in sufficient quantities.