Women Empowerment Through Milk Production Cooperative Societies: An Economic Analysis

Abstract

The present study based on an empirical survey of women members of milk production cooperation societies in Vijayapur district, by taking into consideration of the socio-economic variables like age-group, educational status, caste affiliations and economic status like family profession income and ownership of assets etc. In this concern the study aims to evolution of those involving in milk production cooperative societies in vijayapur district, its indicated that growth in milk production cooperative societies have increased significantly in the past 3 decades and there were 14 milk production unions are working covering all the districts in the year of 2020, the state with 14682 Dairy Cooperatives functioning and 25.30 lakh milk producers. The impact of cooperative societies on women respondents has been studied in relation to income employment generation, economic independence and social empowerment in terms of family decision making and participation in social and political activities. Hence the present research problem is stated as “Women Empowerment through Milk Production Societies: An Economic Analysis”
The milk production cooperatives societies in India have been formed to improve the socio-economic and political conditions of women empowerment especially in the weaker sections societies. The milk production cooperative societies are also one of the essential for rural and semi-rural poor’s, which helps to improvement of socio-economic activities, reduction of poverty, opportunity to income and employment generation, sustainable livelihood to millions of women’s household in rural-semi urban in Vijayapur district as well as Karnataka. It is found that Milk Production Cooperative Societies has positive impact on the women empowerment through developing cooperatives societies. There is much more strengthening of cooperative societies in order to overall development and the women community in the society.