Qualities responsible to shape the family dairy farming skillfulness amongst the sons of practising dairy farmers

Abstract

The professionals of the scientific dairy farming have a strong observation that until and unless practical ability or skilfulness to execute modern methods and operations of animal husbandry, just possession of theoretical information about the package of practices of dairy farming is not enough to get the expected return for newcomers to manage family dairy farming as an occupation. Considering this, the current research was carried out on a random sample of 200 young sons in-between the age of 18 to 35 of practising dairy farmers of Anand and Kheda districts of Gujarat. The study examined the qualities responsible to shape the family dairy farming skilfulness amongst the sons of practising dairy farmers as the new generation to handle the dairy farming occupation. The research clearly states that the majority (91.00 per cent) of the dairy farmers’ sons had a high to a very high level of skilfulness to handle animal husbandry related operations. The results of the correlation coefficients indicate that skilfulness to handle animal husbandry operations and activities was observed superior amongst those sons who had relatively older age above 25 years, married matrimonial status, the bigger size of family landholding and maintained the bigger size of the herd by their parents, to some extent low educated fathers as well as encouraging mindset towards farming as an occupation.