Problems in Dairying as Perceived by Member and Non-Members of Dairy Cooperative Societies in Small Holder System

摘要

The percentage of farmers responded for the problems varied from 90 83 to 7 49 and 93.29 to 17.,49 for member and non-member households, respectively, when two pre-tested separate interview schedules having a series of 20 questions tested among 120 member and equal number of non-member households of Krishna District Milk Co-operative Societies. The intensity for the problems perceived by the farmers was expressed as 'very high' having a perceptional rate of 67-100 per cent, 'high' with 34-66 per centand 'low' with 1-33 per cent. The 'very high' problems noted such as 'high incidence of repeat breeding (90-83 vs 75,53%), non-remunerative price for milk (76 63 vs 93.29%), high cost of dairy animals (78 02%), were perceived by both member and non-member categories. The member farmers have perceived some more problems such as 'high incidence of prolapse of uterus (84 96%), procedural complications in getting the support from the dairy development agencies/co-operative union/rural banks (80.,51%), highcost of concentrates (79,13%), non-availability of pure bred buffaloes (71,63%), inadequate input supply from milk societies (69, 13%) and high cost of insurance premium' (67:47%). Thirteen out of twenty problems perceived as 'high problems by the non-member farmers against' five problems by member households. The member farmer mostly responded for the problems related to the lack of technical services, more disease onset, interference of political and other systems in dairy co-operatives and non-availability of pure bred animals, whereas the non-member responded more for location problems, high input cost, high incidence of prolapse of uterus etc. There exists a significant difference in the perceptional rate for eight problems (P<0 01) and for one problem (P<0.05) between the member and non-member households.