Geo-Eye

Abstract

Rural markets are the farmers first contact point for the disposal of their products while on other hand they are complementary to urban market centers. Rural market holds significance in a country like India where more than 80 percent of the population lives in villages far away from towns. The different types of Rural Markets provide different services. Rural markets are classified into organized and unorganized. Milk dairy co-operative societies are one such organized Rural Markets involving milk producer and milk buyers. These markets act as growth poles and are very significant for the rural development especially in agriculture and cottage industries sector. Milk production is considered as sub-Agriculture farming supporting economic growth of farmers. The dairy co-operative societies are playing an important role in milk production. In India, milk is processed by 170 million milk producer’s co-operative unions and 15 state co-operative milk marketing federation. Mysore district of Karnataka state has 1034 Milk co-operative societies with 236995 members. he present study analyzes the growth of dairy co-operative societies in Mysore district with an emphasis on farmers economic condition and rural woman life.

Keywords: Milk, Co-operative societies, Rural Development, Dairy, Mysore