Analysis of constraints in dairy farming in Kerala-multi stakeholder perspective

Abstract

© Abstract: The study was undertaken in Kerala to evaluate the challenges of dairy farming at research, extension and farmers’ level. A total number of 200 respondent farmers and stakeholders from research and extension domain in the study area were selected randomly. Garret’s ranking technique was adopted to analyze the constraints faced by the stakeholders in the study area. The major constraint faced by the dairy farmers were the high cost of cattle feed and high cost of veterinary service and medicine was the second major constraint experienced by the farmers. The important constraints faced by the officials involved in extension services included implementation of large number of schemes in Panchayat and block level followed by lack of transportation facilities to make field visit. In research system, the major constraint was the prioritized mandate of teaching and extension followed by time constraint for technology