Milk Production in India Essay

1. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF MILK SOCIETY FARMERS IN AVANOOR PANCHAYATH. Avanoor is oneness of the village in puzhakkal taluk, thrissur district, Kerala state panchayath situated with18. 25 square kilometer total commonwealth size. Total population in Avanoor Panchayath is 20040. Among the total population 9729 males and 10311 females. Avanoor bounded with Mundathicode and velur panchayath in the North, Kaiparambu panchayath in the west, Adatt and Kolazhy panchayaths in the south, Mulankunnathkavu panchayath in the east. Among the total population 1576 engaged in the dairy farm farming activities.Among the total number of dairy farmers 593 female dairy farmers. Livestock population in Avanoor panchayath according to the eighteenth livestock census. In 2008 September 18th shown in the following table. Ward NoNo Of house hold having cattleNo Of cattle cross breadNo Of cattle localNo Of house holds having buffaloesNo Of buffaloesNo Of house holds having goatNo Of goats 1752383416 3 276 (5)17512282596 32254612 4651321113878 529701331 642862282559 7622407-1132178 836 (1)741112683 935 (11)6419123188 10421042187 11171432689 1215 (5)3061749 13681651657.149301475 Total623 (22)16053816313241145 2. SOURCE- LIVESTOCK enumerate REPORT OF AVANOOR PANCHAYATH. In Avanoor panchayath which is the place from the render selected having mainly 4 co-operative take out societies. They are - Avanoor ksheera vyavasaya sahakarana sangham under Kerala vyavasaya sahakarana sangham Velappaya ksheerolpathaka sahakarana sangham under Anand ruler Co-Operative Societies (APCOS). Kolangattukara ksheerolpathaka sahakarana sangham under Anand Pattern Co-Operative Societies. Varadiyam ksheerolpathaka sahakarana sangham under Anand Pattern Co-Operative Societies.Among these Avanoor Ksheera Vyavasaya Sahakarana Sangham started 1st in the year 1979, others are started in 1998. In the study mainly considered 50 dairy farmers in the panchayath from the total 1576 dairy farmers in the assay f rame let us examine the socio economic conditions of the dairy farmers considered through the sample. SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF THE RESPONENTS SI No IndicatorsNo Of RespondentPer centimeage To The Total 1Age (5) (29) (16) 10% 58% 32% 20-40 40-60 60 Total50100% 2Gender (38) (12) 76% 24% Male Female Total50100% 3Educational Qualification (2) (18) (20) (9) (2) 4% 36% 40% 18% 4% Illiterate Primary.High school Pre Degree Graduate Total50100% 4Occupation (20) (20) (10) 40% 40% 20% Primary Secondary Territory Total50100% 5Size Of Land Holding (3) (12) (35) 6% 24% 70% 10 cent 10-20 cent 20cent Total50100% 6Annual Income (15) (35) 30% 70% 20000 Total50100% 7State Of Membership (43) (7) 86% 14% Member Non Member Total50100% 8Portion Of Livestock(13) (19) (18)26% 38% 36% 1 2 3 Total50100% SOURCE- COMBILED FROM PRIMARY DATA The given table shows the sample size classification according to their age, sex, landholding educational qualification, occupation, annual income, state of membership, possession of livestock.Advancly given the information about some matters. ?No Muslim dairy farmers support get under the sample frame. ?Except 10 persons all others in the sample size having concrete houses, their own well, above poverty line, owned houses. ? just trio members in the sample frame having any type of remittances from abroad. ?Only one among the fifty sample having Bio gas plant, all members are enjoyed the facility of electricity. downstairs the sampling no persons having goat and buffalo for milking included. They are not selected in the random. SAMPLING METHOD-From the classification in the table shows that sample selected with the inclusion of non members of co-operative societies. 40 triple among the to sample size of 50 having membership in the milk society. No one among the 50 dairy farmers in the sampling having annual income slight than 10000. Seventy dowery of the persons having more than 20000 as annual income. Fifteen among the fifty having an annua l income between 10000 and 20000. The sample study reveals that thirty eight percentage of persons or dairy farmers having two cows.Eighteen farmers having three or more than 3 cattles. And thirteen persons of the sample of fifty dairy farmers having only one cattle. Most of the dairy farmers in the sample size involved in an age range of forty to sixty. Only ten percentage included in the younger category of 20 to forty age limits, all others are aged more than sixty. Seventy six percentage among them are males. Only twenty four percentage female participation we female genital organ calculated on the basis of sample. Thirty five persons among the fifty are the holders of more than twenty cent of lands.Among the sample size fifty, ten persons involved in the territory celestial sphere occupations. Forty percentage involved in the primary sector occupation other forty percentages in the secondary sector jobs. With two illiterate persons fifteen primary educated, twenty high schoo led, guild pre degree holders and two graduates. The two persons among the fifty sample holders of loans amounted that two lacks for the dairy sector. One person only in the starting level with more than three cows and one buffalo with all other modernized farm facilities and workers for doing jobs there.One person lived with this as a major occupation for living with an overcoming of the loans taken by him for the dairy farming. In the samples who having cows less than three cows always interested to provide milk in the milk societies. In Avanoor Panchayath no private ventures in the milk field. More than fifty percent of the total sample size accept dairying as a major upkeep occupation. Only in two families having more than four members under the sample frame. Eighty percent of the samples having more than two or three acre land holdings through inheritance.The sample reveals that most of the dairy farmers interested to provide milk for societies only because of the services a vailable to them like pensions, subsidized feeds for calves, artificial insemination facility clash availableness through membership before the milk supplied to society. Provision of insurance etc Feeding of grass diet was widespread. But it was mostly collected grass and not courtly green-fodder. Paddy straw was the most important source of roughage. Mainly sample members are practiced with the feeding of cattle through send them to grass lands in the open fields.Which are help them to increase the production of milk and reduction of the cost of the milk production in Avanoor Panchayath. Non availability of facilities for browse only three members among the total sample. The reasons for these for one person they maintaining high level cross bread cows which are imported from other states they are not adjusted in a high level to western countries climate so they are maintained under the cooling facilities. One person not healthy to grazing the cattle in the open fields. Another p erson is not avail any facility of grazed land.So two among them buy green fodder for high price. In the large farm in Avanoor Panchayath compared to the others, reports regular medical check-ups to their cattle to avoid serious diseases which are badly affect on the milk production. They are avail always healthy veterinary doctors service through the veterinary hospital in the Avanoor Panchayath. No one in the study can reports that their processed milk for producing another milk products. In Avanoor Panchayath such type of industries or small scale units are not existing with or without the avail of co-operative milk unions in the Panchayath.