Impact of Institute Village Linkage Programme (IVLP) on Dairying

摘要

Dairying is an important component of India '$ rural economy contributing significantly towards employment and income generation. The study was carried out at two IVLP centres namely; NDRI, Karnal representing Irrigated Agro Eco-system andIGFRI, Jhansi, representing Rain fed Agro Eco-system. A total of 150 farmers were randomly selected for the study. Most of the farmers were middle aged, educated, owned less than 5 acre land and agriculture was their main occupation. The overall impact of IVLP on herd size in both the systems had shown 23.38 percent increase. The herd size increased from 6. 794 to 7.642. There were 15.9, 26.72 and 33.87 percent increase in milk yield of crossbred cows, nondescript cows and buffaloes, respectively. The overall increase in average milk production and milk sale was 5.62 and 5.15 litres/day, respectively.