Jadav et al.
Materials and Methods
Table 2. Likert-type variables measuring different aspects of
women’s role in rural dairy enterprise
The study was conducted in Dahod district of Gujarat
state. Four randomly selected talukas, namely Jhalod,
Sr.
Variables
MR
Rank
Dahod, Fatepura and Limkheda were included in the
No.
study out of seven talukas of Dahod district. Two
1
Feeding the animals
22.27
11
villages were randomly selected from each taluka .
2
Harvesting fodder crops
21.38
14
Data on 160 respondents were collected by randomly
3
Taking animals for grazing
20.59
17
selecting 20 respondents from each village using
4
Fodder collection
21.19
15
stratified random sampling. Five point agreement
5
Storage of feed & fodder
21.06
16
scale 1= strongly disagree, 2= disagree, 3= neither, 4=
6
Chaffing fodder
15.95
22
agree and 5= strongly agree (Likert, 1932) was used in
the present investigation. The role of women in rural
7
Soaking of concentrate
18.11
21
dairy enterprise was hypothesized to have 5 major
8
To offering concentrate
20.45
18
roles viz. Nutrition, Management, Breeding, Health
9
Feeding young calf`
23.14
7
care and Finance. There were 10, 8, 4, 7 and 5 sub-roles
10
Watering the animals
22.59
10
(Likert variables) allotted to each major role (Figure
11
Cleaning of animal shed
26.60
1
1). Five point Likert type were collected responses
12
Washing & grooming of animals
25.48
3
on 34 variables measuring social attitude towards
13
Milking
25.26
4
different aspects of the role of women in rural dairy
14
Cleaning of Utensils
25.91
2
enterprise using a pre-structured questionnaire. The
15
Disposal of cow dung
24.28
5
factor programme of SPSS (2001) statistical package
16
Maintaining farm & dairy records
6.12
32
was used for the Mann-Whitney Test, Friedman Test,
17 Care of new born calf
22.90
8
Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test and Kruskal-Wallis Test.
18
Weaning & management of Calf
22.23
12
19
Taking animals for A.I./ natural 12.96
24
Table 1. Role of women in major components of rural dairy
service
enterprise
20
Taking
animals
for
pregnancy 12.07
25
Sr.
diagnosis
Major Components
MR
Rank
MW
No.
21
Care during pregnancy
19.43
20
2
Management
3509.04
1
d
22
Involvement during parturition
20.41
19
1
Nutrition
3174.63
2
c
23
Care of new born
22.78
9
4
Healthcare
2499.98
3
b
24
Care of pregnant animals
23.52
6
3
Breeding
2484.06
4
b
25
Care of sick animals
22.09
13
5
Finance
1048.46
5
a
26
Taking animals for treatment
13.52
23
MR: Mean Rank, MW: Mann-Whitney Test, Kruskal-Wallis
27 Taking animals for Vaccination or 11.07
26
Test
Deworming
28
Purchase of vet medicine
10.02
28
Results and Discussion
29
Disposal of carcass
9.10
29
The role of women among major components
30
Sale of milk & milk products
10.82
27
in rural dairy enterprise has been presented in
31
Sale & purchase of animals
7.41
30
Table 1. Analysis using Kruskal-Wallis (KW) test
32
Purchase of feeds & fodder
6.43
31
revealed that management (3509.04) obtained the
33
Getting loans/credit from banks
4.00
33
highest mean rank followed by nutrition ( 3174.63 ),
34
Insurance
3.89
34
healthcare (2499.98), breeding (2484.06 ) and finance
MR: Mean Rank, Friedman Test
100