Dairy farming in India is largely practised by resource poor farmers who own more than 70 per cent of the milch animals in the country (NABARD, 2020). Considerable proportion of these farmers belongs to Socially Disadvantaged Communities (SDCs). They are deprived of equal opportunities to access the technology, knowledge, finance and market which make their livelihoods susceptible to decent living. In India, majority of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) belong to socially disadvantaged communities. Their poor resource endowment status inhibits their socio-economic progress. Their major source of livelihood is farm labour in different farm enterprises. Dairy farming becomes a good option for women of these communities when their male partners turn as wage earners. This warrants relevant extension interventions for their socio-economic upliftment and technological empowerment.
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