Abstract
Dairy production has become an important component of rural development programmes particularly in the rainfed areas of India. It is considered as an instrument for social and economic change, to improve income and quality of life of dairy farmers. Vidarbha region is a rainfed region of Maharashtra and dairy plays an important role in their life. Thus in order to identify and prioritize the constraints faced by dairy farmers in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra a study was carried out. A detailed questionnaire in relation to various aspects of feeding, breeding, marketing and institutional constraints involved in dairy farming were enlisted and the dairy farmers from the study area were asked to rank the each constraint which were analysed using Garret's ranking technique. Lack of availability of green fodder was found as major feeding constraint, low productivity of animal as breeding constraint, low price of liquid milk as marketing constraint, institutional constraint was lack of AI and veterinary facilities and overall major constraint considering all the above categories was lack of availability of green fodder.
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