DAIRY FARMING AND ITS IMPACT ON LIVELIHOOD AND SUSTAINABILITY OF POOR FARMER IN MURSHIDABAD DISTRICT: WEST BENGAL

Dairy is an important sector of agriculture economy. It plays a vital role in household nutritional security, increased income and employment generation. A larg segment of workforce has been employment as par time as well as fulltime in this sector of agriculture economy. They are engaged in various natures of activities like rearing, marketing, distribution and collection/processing of dairy and their product. Keeping in to consideration the study, there are significance of the dairy farming in rural economic development and sustainability of poor farmers. The district of Murshidabad has been selected as study is taking in to consideration it economic backwards, agriculture base as well as presence of large number of rural population engaged in dairy farming.