<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Do Dairy Co-operatives Enhance Milk Production, Productivity and Quality? Evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India"^^ . "Dairy development of India has been acclaimed as one of the most successful development programmes in\r\nthe world. The co-operatives were conceived as the main vehicle for implementing dairy development\r\nprogrammes in India and much of the SUCCesS of the 'White Revolution' in the country is attributed to cooperative\r\nframework of the dairy development strategies. Nonetheless, the potential of the dairy cooperatives\r\nin the context of emerging globalised markets is often questioned. The emergence of several\r\nintegrated marketing models backed by giant multinationals is posing stiff competition to the co-operative\r\nmodels of milk marketing. In this backdrop, this study examines the impact of co-operatives at the farm\r\nlevel based on the data collected from 675 dairy farming households in three states of India - Bihar,\r\nPunjab and Uttar Pradesh. These states represent geographical and institutional diversity of milk\r\nproduction and marketing in the country, This study aims at analysing the impact of dairy co-operatives on\r\nthe farmers' performance with the adoption of milk quality and safety practices. The findings indicate that\r\nthe stature of the 'as the multifunctional entity for dairy fanners of rural India is still intact. A\r\ncross comparison between the member and the non-member farmers of the dairy co-operatives sUllge:sts\r\nthat the scale of farming and level of adoption of improved animals have been significantly higher for\r\nmember fanners. Similarly, the eo-operative member households contributed significantly higher quantity\r\nof milk at higher levels of productivity than their non-member counterparts, The eo-operative members\r\nwere found to have better market access for selling milk. Per unit cost of milk production was on the lower\r\nside for the members and they realised higher price of milk than the non-member farmers. More\r\nimportantly, the members were relatively better adopters of milk safety and hygiene practices' and had\r\nlower additional cost of compliance and that in turn would promote better compliance. Further, the paper\r\nidentifies the major factors that enabled the dairy farmers to participate in co-operatives. The results of the\r\nProbit analysis suggested that the socio-economic and demographic factors like education, experience,\r\nscale of farming, size of holdings, caste affiliation, etc, determine the participation of dairy farmers in cooperatives.\r\nThe membership in the co-operatives gives a distinct advantage to dairy farmers for enhanced\r\nmilk yield, productivity and quality, and thereby increases their competitiveness in the domestic and\r\ninternational markets. The potential of dairy co-operatives need to be fully exploited in the country, and to\r\nempower them further, new initiatives should be vigorously pursued."^^ . "2013" . . "68" . "3" . . "Indian Society of Agricultural Economics"^^ . . . "Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics"^^ . . . "00195014" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "A"^^ . "Kumar"^^ . "A Kumar"^^ . . "S"^^ . "Parappurathu"^^ . "S Parappurathu"^^ . . "S"^^ . "Jee"^^ . "S Jee"^^ . . . . . . "Do Dairy Co-operatives Enhance Milk Production, Productivity and Quality? Evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "Do Dairy Co-operatives Enhance Milk Production, Productivity and Quality? Evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Do Dairy Co-operatives Enhance Milk Production, Productivity and Quality? Evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Do Dairy Co-operatives Enhance Milk Production, Productivity and Quality? Evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Do Dairy Co-operatives Enhance Milk Production, Productivity and Quality? Evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "Do Dairy Co-operatives Enhance Milk Production, Productivity and Quality? Evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India (Other)"^^ . . . . . "HTML Summary of #7340 \n\nDo Dairy Co-operatives Enhance Milk Production, Productivity and Quality? Evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics"@en . .