Study on Problems Faced by the Dairy Women Entrepreneurs and their Suggestions to Strengthen Dairy Industry

Abstract

Women dairy entrepreneurs play a very important role in Indian dairy industry. These women contribute 70% of work force and earn regular income from dairy industry. This promotes socio economic empowerment of women financially, invest in their children’s education, healthcare, and contribute to household expense. Even though women entrepreneurs facing some problems in this industry, the study planned to identified solutions to those problems. The study was conducted in Bharuch district of Gujarat state with the sample size of 360. The study was planned to make survey for three years (2021 to 2024) by developing a pre tested interview schedule. The schedule was developed by collecting information from review of literature and with experts help. The data was collected and analysed using Garrett ranking technique using excel. From the data it’s revolved that the women dairy entrepreneurs encountered some important challenges in dairy industry like lack of low milk price (83.33%), availability of nutrient feeding (73.33%), cost of nutrient feeding (66.11%) etc. The study reviles that solutions to overcome those problems and sustain women dairy entrepreneurs were women centric training programs, awareness campaigns, timely supply of inputs with affordable prices including veterinary services can strengthen the women dairy entrepreneurs.