COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN MEMBER AND NON-MEMBER CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY ON THE BASIS OF DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DAIRY FARMERS

摘要

The present study was carried out at purposively selected Gaighata and Bagdah block of North-24 Pgs district, West Bengal. From each of the purposively selected two blocks, 25 percent (approximately) of the Village Level Milk Co-operative Societies were selected randomly. In this way 10 Village Level Milk Co-operative Societies (25 percent) from Gaighata Block and 20 (25.64 percent) from Bagdah Block were selected randomly. From each of the selected milk co-operative societies, four dairy farmers were selected randomly out of which both Member Co-operative Society (MCS) and Non-member Co- operative Society (NMCS) were two in number. In this way, 60 Member Co-operative Society and 60 Non-member Co-operative Society (total 120 respondents) were selected, which constituted the sample of the present study. Direct face-to-face interview method with the structured schedule was followed for the purpose of data collection. The study revealed that the mean scores obtained by the sample dairy farmers of theMCS was found to be significantly (P< 0.05) higher than the dairy farmers of NMCS in respect to the characteristics namely, occupation, education of the respondent, land, urban contact, personal cosmopolite, personal localite, mass media communication, communication source, attitude towards dairy farming, knowledge about Artificial Insemination (AI), deworming, feeding of green fodder and feeding of concentrates, risk orientation, innovation proneness, marketing orientation, adoption of AI, deworming, vaccination against contagious diseases, green fodder cultivation, green fodder feeding, concentrate feeding, colostrum feeding and overall adoption index.