Technological Needs of Farm Women in Dairy Farming: A Case of Udaipur District, Rajasthan

Abstract

This study was carried out in three randomly selected villages from three Panchayat Samities of Udaipur district. From each of the selected villages, a total of twenty farm households having milch cattle were selected randomly. One woman member of the family was interviewed for the study, thus making the total sample size as 60. A wellstructured interview schedule was used along with focused group discussion for collecting the information. The study revealed that balanced diet, health care and sanitation, care of pregnant animals and new born calf and correct procedure of milking as the most important areas of technologies compared to the others and 73.2 per cent of the respondents adopted the advice of doctor’s as per the concern of health and sanitation practices. Caste and family income had shown negatively significant relationship at 0.05 per cent level with technological needs in dairying. It implies that higher the caste and family income lower is the degree of technological needs of the respondents in dairy. On the other hand farm experience and participation in animal husbandry had a positively significant relationship at .05% level.