Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Pooja Thakan, Tikam Chand Goyal, Manisha Singodiya, Pawan Saini and Umesh Choudhary

Abstract:
The objective of the current study, which involved 120 dairy farmers from twelve villages and four tehsils in the Udaipur region of Rajasthan, was to determine their socioeconomic and psychological characteristics. These towns and tehsils were specifically chosen since they have the most dairy animals. To gather pertinent information from the dairy farmers, a pre-tested interview plan was created. The research showed that majority of the respondents were middle aged (67.50%), illiterate (33.33%) having small family size (47.50%), falling under small land holding (55.00%) and medium herd size (60.00). Study also revealed that majority of respondents having animal husbandry and agriculture as their main occupation (70.00%), had medium level of annual income (46.67%) and medium level of experience in dairy farming (58.33%). Further, the study revealed that majority (70.00%) of respondents had no membership of any organization and medium level of mass media exposure (80.00%) and extension contacts (60.83%).