WOMEN DAIRY COOPERATIVES AS A SOURCE OF INCOME IN RURAL PUNJAB
Dr. Manisha, Kuldeep Kaur
ABSTRACT
The Punjab State Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited is popularly known as MILKFED Punjab. It came into being in 1973 with a twin objective of providing remunerative milk market to the milk producers in the state value addition and marketing of produce on one hand and to provide technical inputs to the milk producers for enhancement of milk production on the other hand. Presently, about 7019 village level societies having 382442 members are functioning. There is eleven District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union which covers the entire state of Punjab. It is an attempt to examine the income from Women Milk Producers’ Cooperative Societies (WMPCS) in Punjab and to examine the district wise income from Women Milk Producers’ Cooperative Societies (WMPCS) in Punjab. The study is based on primary data as well as on secondary data collected from Punjab State Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited (MILKFED) in Punjab and Punjab State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Limited (MILKFED) in Punjab’s Women Milk Producers’ Cooperative Societies’ (WMPCS) respondents in Ropar, Patiala and Sangrur districts, books, journals, and internet etc. The main findings of the study are the gross income and net income of respondents from Women Milk Producers’ Cooperative Societies for member respondents are relatively more than nonmember respondents.
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