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Indu Sharma ¹, R. K. Sharma ¹, R. Sendhil ¹

Affiliations
1 Wheat Research, Karnal 132 001, IN

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Gyanendra Pratap Singh ¹, R. K. Sharma , R. Sendhil

Affiliations
1 ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal 132 001, IN

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The 55th All India Wheat and Barley Research Workers' Meet was organized to review work done under the All-India Coordinated Wheat and Barley Improvement Programme during 2015-16 and finalization of work plan for 2016-17.

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R. Sendhil ¹, P. Ramasundaram ², S. J. Balaji ³

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1 ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal-132 001, IN
2 Krishi Anusandhan Bhawan II, Pusa, New Delhi-110 012, IN
3 ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, Pusa, New Delhi-110 012, IN

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Indian agriculture is essentially monsoon- and market-dependent, and suffers frequent distresses posing threat to the welfare of farmers as well as interest in farming. Declining farm productivity and income have serious implications on rural prosperity and overall economy. Hence, increasing the real farm income, i.e. nominal (actual) income adjusted to inflation has become a priority for the state and policy planners.

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Darshnaben Mahida ¹, R. Sendhil ¹, Smita Sirohi ¹, B. S. Chandel ¹, K. Ponnusamy ¹, Gopal Sankhala ¹

Affiliations
1 Division of Dairy Economics, Statistics and Management, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal - 132 001, Haryana, IN

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Objectives: To compare the technical efficiency scores of dairy cooperative member and non-member farms across the districts in Gujarat selected from regions having different level of dairy development.

Methods/Statistical Analysis: The present study has analyzed and compared the technical efficiency of 180 dairy farmers using a non-parametric approach i.e., Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The study is based on the primary data collected during 2016-17 using a well-structured, comprehensive and pre-tested interview schedule. Apart from conventional analysis, box-plot and scatter-plot were used to compare the efficiency scores.

Findings: The investigation identified regional disparities in efficiency scores based on dairy development. The DEA results showed that member farmers of the district selected from low (Tapi), moderate (Bharuch) and highly (Anand) dairy developed regions were more efficient than their respective non-member counterpart. Similarly, the overall comparison between dairy cooperative members and non-members showed that the efficiency of member farmers was 83.27% while for non-members it was 75.31%. Further, the results revealed that small herd size farmers were most efficient in both member (87.21%) and non-member (81.59%) categories. The paper established that membership in dairy cooperatives; herd size as well as status of dairy development in a region greatly influences the technical efficiency of farmers.

Application/Improvements: Overall, the study concludes that 24.69% and 16.73% inefficiency exist respectively in dairy cooperatives non-member and member farms indicating the scope for increasing the realized output with same level of resources and production technology.

Keywords

Gujarat, Technical Efficiency, Dairy Cooperatives, Member, Non-Member, Data Envelopment Analysis.

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Darshnaben P. Mahida ¹, R. Sendhil ², Smita Sirohi ¹, B. S. Chandel ¹, K. Ponnusamy ¹, Gopal Sankhala ¹

Affiliations
1 ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal 132 001, IN
2 ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal 132 001, IN

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Gujarat, despite being a highly progressive state of India in terms of dairying, has great potential to enhance its milk production and make dairying a more lucrative enterprise. It is home to many high quality dairy animal breeds and has a very active milk cooperative structure which can accelerate the possibilities of uplifting the level of milk production further, if proper and balanced micro level development policies are promoted. The present study depicts the causes for disparities besides analysing the strengths and weaknesses in dairying across 26 districts in Gujarat. To identify and capture the variation in resource use which causes disparities in dairy development, the principal component analysis-based biplot technique was employed. Data on different variables like resource availability, infrastructure and veterinary facilities, and, milking animals and their yields have been sourced from 26 districts of Gujarat for tracing the disparity. The conclusions drawn from the biplot imply that promoting the quality of animal breeds and increasing the population of high yielding cattle breeds in low-developed districts can lead to high milk production. In the setting of increased milk production, the cooperative milk marketing structure will become more dynamic and result in enhanced income for dairy producers.

Keywords

Biplot, Eigen Value, Gujarat Dairy Development, PCA, Regional Disparity.

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G. L. Pallavi ¹, Ajmer Singh ¹, B. S. Chandel ¹, R. Sendhil ², S. S. Lathwal ¹

Affiliations
1 ICAR- National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal-132001, IN
2 ICAR- Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal-132001, IN

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Objectives: The present study evaluates different techniques used for identification of insured animals, assesses the farmers’ need and their willingness to buy insurance for different livestock insurance products. Methodology/Statistical Analysis: The data required for the study was collected by direct personal interview method based on a well-structured schedule from 120 sample households through multistage sampling technique in Bengaluru rural district of Karnataka. Scale ranging from very poor to excellent was used to assess the identification techniques based on considered parameters for the study. Conjoint analysis was used to calculate the estimated utilities for different livestock insurance products. Findings: It was found that plastic tag was having advantages in case of cost, labour requirement, application ease and animal health compared to plastic tag plus branding while plastic tag plus branding was advantageous in case of readability and durability compared to plastic tag alone. The estimated utility for mastitis was found highest (0.765) at one teat blindness and for metritis, estimated utility was highest (1.927) up to four number of services. The most important factors determining the farmers’ willingness to buy insurance were governed by the depreciation charge followed by level of teat blindness in case of mastitis and number of services in case of metritis disease. Application/Improvements: Insurance companies should maintain regular, reliable and complete database related with animal identification techniques in order to assess the efficiency of different animal identification techniques promptly. Insurance companies and Karnataka state Department of Animal Husbandry can include alternate insurance products viz., mastitis, metritis, transit insurance and theft with affordable premium charges which do not exist in the present livestock insurance

Keywords

Garrett Ranking Technique, Parameters of Identification Techniques, Conjoint Analysis.

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