Socio-Economic Profile of Maldhari Dairy Farmers of South Saurashtra Region

Socio - Economic Profile of Dairy Farmers In Solapur District of Maharashtra State

Dairy Farming is a class of agricultural, or more properly, an animal husbandry enterprise, raising female cattle, goats, or certain other lactating livestock for long term production of Milk, which may be either processed on site or transported to a dairy for processing and eventual retail sale. Most dairy farms sell the male calves borne by their cows/buffaloes usually for real production, ra...

Impacts of Drought on Socio-Economic Conditions of Paddy Farmers in Guilan Province, North of Iran

The purpose of this study was to survey impacts of drought on Socio-economic conditions of Guilan Paddy farmers. Besides recognizing these impacts, it ranked them according to the viewpoint of the Paddy farmers. It was of the descriptive- correlation type. Questionnaire was the main tool of this study. To determine the validity of questionnaire used of comments of panel experts and reliability ...

Effect of Socio-Economic Characteristics on Food Security of Small Scale Farmers in Rawalpindi

About half of the population in Pakistan is food insecure. The study focused the food secure population and the strategies for reducing poverty in district Rawalpindi. The study was carried out in district Rawalpindi in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Simple random sampling technique was used for this research study in district Rawalpindi. A sample of 120 respondents was selected. Then the dat...

Socio-economic characterristics of farmers and use of agricultural information sources in fars province iran

The Role of Milk Collecting Centers in Socio-Economic Situation of Dairy Animal Keepers

Most of the poor people in developing countries live in rural areas. Experience shows that in manycountries animal husbandry development and increasing investment specially is a way to challengethe poverty in rural areas. This is obvious that, small producers have key role in dairy markets anddairy development but they have no power to bargain and negotiate for higher prices, access to themarke...