Study on Awareness of Central Government Schemes for the Sustainable Development of Milk Producers in India with Reference to Sangamner

Abstract

The government of India has introduced many schemes for the dairy development and upliftment of the milk producers in India. The schemes were introduced to develop dairy sector, underprivileged youth into a self-sufficient, employable workforce and to convert the rural population into a selfsustained generation with dairying and income generation through the milk production. Since it was introduced through NABARD - National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development and financial institutions, people who have knowledge about various schemes were able to get the benefits of the schemes. To implement the schemes, the government of India has started programs through NABARD - National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. The following are the objectives of the study. (i) to present the various central Government Schemes of Dairy Development, (ii) to present the socio-economic profile of the sample respondents, (iii) to study the level of awareness about the central government schemes and (iv) to give suggestions to create more awareness about the central government scheme for rural India. Though many schemes are available and many are developed in many parts of the country. So, an attempt has been made to know the awareness of the Central Government Schemes available, the researchers had taken 120 random sample respondents in the city of Akoles. The results showed that the people had a medium level of awareness of the Central Government Schemes of dairy development and suggestions were given accordingly.