Year: 2016 | Month: June | Volume 61 | Issue 2
Reviving dairy co-operatives in Kashmir: what has been achieved?
DOI:10.5958/0976-4666.2016.00026.7
Abstract:
Dairy cooperatives that are mandated to be an instrument of rural development have transformed the rural economy in several parts of the country. The present investigation was carried out to study the performance of dairy cooperatives in Kashmir region. The study is based on secondary data collected from J&K Milk Producers Cooperative Limited. The performance of dairy cooperative societies (DCS) was assessed in relative terms using indexing technique. The results indicated that the physical and financial performance of most of the DCS was far from satisfactory, primarily due to reduced membership and hence, low level of milk procurement. Out of 344 DCS analysed in the study, only a handful of 15 DCS had registered moderate to good level of performance.
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