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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2019, Volume : 7, Issue : 4
First page : (415) Last page : (421)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.7501

Socio-Economic Status of Mumbai Metropolitan farm Women Involved in Poultry Value Chain

Ashwini Pawara^1*, Adhiti Bhanotra², Manish Sawant³, Akshay Ghatare⁴ and Nikita Sonawane^5
1Veterinary officer, Maharashtra State
²Assistant Professor, ³Associate Professor & I/C, ⁵M.V.Sc Scholar
Dept. Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension, Mumbai Veterinary Collage, Parel, Mumbai
⁴Veterinary officer, Sheep and Goat Economic Development Corporation, Maharashtra State
*Corresponding Author E-mail: ashwiniext@gmail.com
Received: 15.05.2019 | Revised: 23.06.2019 | Accepted: 1.07.2019  

 ABSTRACT

A study was conducted on 120 poultry farm women in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) of Maharashtra to study the socio-economic variables and poultry value chain. From Mumbai Metropolitan Region Thane district was purposively selected as good no. of poultry birds are reared by farm women. Farm women having minimum 2 poultry birds with 1 to 3 years of experience were selected.Data were collected personally with the help of pre-tested structured interview schedule and analyzed with the help of frequency, mean, standard deviation, percentage and Cumulative Square Root Technique (CSRT). Majority (58.33%) of the respondents in the study area belonged to the middle age group whereas 94.16 per cent had agriculture as their primary occupation. All the respondents had poultry farming as their secondary occupation. About 85.84 per cent of the respondents had medium annual income ranging from ₹22001 to ₹68000. Nearly one third (74.17%) of the farm women produced was more than 15 eggs/month and more than half (57.50%) of farm women used 1 to 5 eggs for their personal use. All farm women were directly selling their poultry products to consumer without any intermediate chain or channel.

Keywords: Poultry farming, Farm women, Socio-economic, Poultry value chain, CSRT, Marketing channel.

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Cite this article: Pawara, A., Bhanotra, A., Sawant, M., Ghatare, A., & Sonawane, N. (2019). Socio-Economic Status of Mumbai Metropolitan Farm Women Involved in Poultry Value Chain, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 7(4), 415-421. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.7501