Rajasthan state have 19 milk unions, out of
these Jaipur Zila Dugdh Utpadak Sahakari Sangh
Ltd. Jaipur was selected purposively, because
dairy development facilities are well developed
for increasing the milk production in Jaipur
There are thirteen blocks in Jaipur district
which were covered by the Jaipur Zila Dugdh
Utpadak Sahakari Sangh Ltd.; Out of these
thirteen blocks, Govindgarh block having
maximum bovine population in the district was
selected. List of functional milk producers cooperative
societies was prepared and out of them
10 co-operatives were selected randomly for the
present study. After selection of milk producing
co-operative societies, a separate list of milk
producing members and non-members (keeping
mich animals) of weaker section community
was prepared. Thus, 120 milk producers from
members (20 landless, 56 marginal and 44 small)
and 120 milk producers from non-member (24
landless, 62 marginal and 34 small) were selected
for comparison on the basis of probability
proportionate to the number of household in
each category. The final selection of the cases
of weaker section were made purely on random
basis from different categories of members and
non-members viz. landless (having no land),
marginal (having up to one hectare of land),
small farmers (having one to two hectare of
land). The primary data were collected with the
help of pre-tested schedule by personal interview
method for the year 2007-08. The data obtained
from different categories of member and nonmember
families were analyzed with the help
of tabular analysis, mean and percentage for
drawing inferences.