B.S. Meena

Gender participation in integrated farming system in Tripura, India

Integrated farming system (IFS) is a valuable approach to addressing the problems of sustainable economic growth for farming communities in the country. In Indian context, farming is a family occupation and farm women are associates to their husbands performing various activities in farm and home level. Therefore present study was conducted in Tripura state as this state has prominence on integrated farming system in relation to gender participation. Thus, both 100 male and 100 female were interviewed to weigh up the participation of gender in plain and hilly regions of the state. The results showed that, in crop enterprise, land preparation (84% in plain and 68% in hilly), marketing of the products (84% in plain and 96 % in hilly) etc. were mostly performed by male members of family Whereas in livestock enterprise, all the activities were mostly performed by female but seaing of the milks and animals done by male members. Likewise in poultry and fishery enterprise both male and female members were actively engaged.

Field level study on productive and reproductive parameters of dairy animals in Uttar Pradesh, India

The profitability of dairy animals has direct relation with the performance of productive and reproductive parameters of dairy animals. Hence, an attempt was made to measure the productive and reproductive performances of dairy animals and farmers’ knowledge on these aspect in Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh. For this purpose 150 farmers engaged in dairying were interviewed and it was found that the 38.62 percent of respondents were having medium level of knowledge about dairying, while about 36.55 percent of respondents were having high levels of knowledge on the productive and reproductive aspect of dairy animals. Knowledge index on productive and reproductive parameters of dairy animals was calculated and observed that respondent were possessing 66.79 per cent knowledge in study area. It was further observed that respondents were having good knowledge (68.91%) on productive practices as compared to reproductive practices (66.10%). Simultaneously the respondents who reared Crossbred cow based herd were having knowledge up to the extent of 72.87 per cent on productive and reproductive practices. Though the respondents were facing serious constraints in rearing, they were frequently updating their knowledge on productive and reproductive practices as compared to Buffalo and indigenous cow based dairy farmers.