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A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY ON NOMADIC DONKEY REARING IN TAMIL NADU

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Title A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY ON NOMADIC DONKEY REARING IN TAMIL NADU
 
Creator P. Athilakshmy
C. Manivannan
N. Vimal Rajkumar
N. Kumaravelu
G. Kathiravan
 
Subject Nomads
Donkey
Donkey Milk
Marketing channel
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Description The socioeconomic importance of nomadic donkey rearing, perception on health benefits of donkey milk and the marketing channels involved remain unexplored. This paper aims at providing details on nomadic donkey rearing, a traditional system prevailing in Tamil Nadu. Donkey played a significant role in the livelihood of its owners who had migrated throughout Tamil Nadu for selling donkey milk.  They traversed around 30 – 40 km per day to sell the donkey milk besides meeting the grazing needs of the donkeys. Majority of the nomadic donkey rearers were young to middle aged and were scheduled tribes. Two third of the respondents were involved in nomadic donkey rearing for nearly eight months in a year and for the remaining four months they earned their livelihood as  agricultural labourers. The study revealed that on an average, lactating jenny yield milk for six months. At the end of the lactation period, the donkey rearers sold the dry jenny to the traders and in turn purchased the lactating jenny from them. The nomadic donkey rearers believed that the donkey milk had medicinal benefits to cure ailments such as ulcer, indigestion, pneumonia,  jaundice, leukorrhea and hypernatremia. The respondents preferred institutional support in marketing donkey milk so that they could settle in one place and thrive better. 
 
Publisher Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
 
Date 2024-05-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJVASR/article/view/149246
 
Source Indian Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Research; Vol. 52 No. 6 (2023): IJVASR November - December 2023; 23-33
2347-2774
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJVASR/article/view/149246/54055
 
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