Intergender Empowerment Through Dairy Cooperatives

The book is concerned with the question of empowerment with special reference to dairy cooperatives societies. It profiles the gender of dairy cooperative members, the resource support system available for them, factors affecting participation of people in dairying, members’ involvement in dairying operations, impact of dairying on quality of life and constraints faced by members. Based on field studies, it observes that a majority of the members are landless or marginal farmers. There is difference in their involvement in works, access to land, capital and constraints based on gender factors. It examines as to what extent the dairy cooperatives help actually empower its members at different elvels—personal, social, political, economic, technological and entrepreneurial.