Evaluation of Integrated Dairy Development Project (IDDP) in Non-Operation Flood, Hilly and Backward Areas in North Eastern Region (Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Sikkim)

摘要

Animal husbandry in India is an integral part of agriculture sector and plays an important role in providing employment and income to the rural people. The livestock sector has been receiving significant-priority m India in the last couple of decades.The dairy farming in particular act as an agency in providing employment, income, nutritive food to the people and cowdung as organic manure to enrich soil fertility and thus help in increasing crop production. It is an established fact that dairying is carried out mostly by the poorer section of population and this sector provided part time/whole time employment to about 19.00 million people which is about 8.3 per cent (p.c.) of total working force in 2002-2003.