Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Avinash Kamble, Vaishali Banthiya, Sariput Landge and Sanket Waigaonkar

Abstract:
The main objective of this research was to study the socio-economic and knowledge gained by dairy farmers. Three Micro Training centres namely Nagpur, Wardha and Amravati districts in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. 80 dairy farmers were selected randomly from each MTCs included making 240 respondents. The findings revealed that the majority of the respondents were from the middle age group (63.75%), with education up to secondary school (50.83%), were males (95.83%) from the OBC category (56.25%), with medium family size (60.83%), having joint families (75.00%), were married (86.70%), with medium land holding (56.25%), had large herd size (87.50%), with high medium milk production (43.33%), milk sale (46.25%) and medium annual income group (62.5%). MTC, Wardha dairy farmers showed the maximum knowledge gain with a mean score of 40.72% followed by MTC, Nagpur 38.78% and MTC, Amaravati 38.26%.