Empowered women are challenging conventional wisdom and proving their ability in many important areas on the farm, including those inside the dairy business. Still, there are many obstacles on this road towards empowerment. Many women in the dairy farming industry encounter obstacles like restricted access to resources, education, and platforms for making decisions. This book explores the complex relationships among women's empowerment in the dairy farming industry. It also explores challenges and obstacle within this sector.

Empowering Farm Women Through Dairy Farm Co-operatives explains the importance of the dairy farming in a global perspective. This book explains the history of dairy farming, processes involved in dairy farming, significance of dairy farming, automation and innovative technologies that are a part of dairy farming. The concept of dairy farm cooperatives has been explained along with the role of farm women in developing countries. The cooperative operations in dairy, role of dairy cooperatives and the influence of the dairy farming cooperatives has been explained in detail. The importance of animal healthcare in dairy and the importance of dairy farming in empowerment of women has been explained in detail. Dairy farming is explained as a source of economic empowerment and the importance of dairy in enhancing the socio-economic relations have been explained in detail. This book gives a comprehensive idea of diary farming and the importance of dairy farming in empowering women.

“Unity is the Strength”. People have enormous power, that too women. If this principle could be applied in our every walk of life, the sky would be the limit of the fruits of success. The women should be awaken for their unbelievable potential they have. This potential should be converted into the capability through appropriate intervention. Dairy Cooperative Society is one of the best alternative means for farm women to engage and empower themselves in all aspects of their life. Cow keeping and curd making are the traditional practices of rural women. Only this practice is to be channelized in a systematic cooperative mechanism for greater interest and better performance. Farm women can be self- sustained socio- economically by adopting our traditional day’s tradition of cow keeping and curd making. The book explains steps need to be taken in the functioning of Women Dairy Cooperatives Societies such as their performance, functioning, organization, entrepreneurial behavior of members & constraints in functioning etc. with the support of research evidence.

Women Represent Half The World S Human Resources. Though Women Perform Different Roles [Reproduction (Only Women), Household (Housework, Food Preparation, Child Earning,&), And Productive (Income Generating Activities)], Women Continue To Be Mainly Responsible For Care Economy .This Study Makes An Attempt To Understand The Nature And Impact Of Step Programme On Women And To Draw Lessons For Future Policy Exercises. The Specific Objectives Of The Study Are: (1) To Study Performance Of All Women Dairy Cooperative Societies (Wdcss) In Different Agro-Climatic Regions; (2) To Calculate Quantitative And Qualitative Changes In Women Covered Under Step Programme; (3) To Observe The Differential Decision Making Pattern Of Farm Women In Various Animal Husbandry Tasks; (4) To Develop An Empowerment Scale For Scale For Women Dairy Farmers; And (5) To Document Working Of Self-Help Groups Among Respondents.

Dairy farming in rural India is female dominated enterprise with neglected entrepreneurial responsibility, denied self decision making & monetary handling etc. Their contribution thru labour supervision giving helping hand & moral support to family can't valued & assessed in economical terms. The Book revealed the entrepreneurial potentiality & employment status of rural women in cooperative dairy farming mode in Indian scenario.It also expresses various socioeconomic, communication and sociology-psychological factors which are interrelated with the entrepreneurial status of rural women dairy owners through survey based based social research study in comparative ways. Women empowerment is vital for development of any civil society. The book will enlightened a new horizon for socioeconomic upliftment & empowerment of rural women folk.

Women represent half of the world's human resources. Though women perform different roles (production, household and productive), women continue to be mainly responsible for 'Care Economy'. It is said that unpaid work of these women comes to around US $ 11 trillion/ annum which is equivalent to half of the world's GDP. But this contribution goes unnoticed and seldom income statistics enters national income accounts.