Role of Dairy in Poverty Alleviation: A Study of Block Kakapora in District Pulwama of J and K State.

Abstract

District Pulwama is known throughout the valley for agricultural production. Most of the people are engaged in the sector as their main economic subsistence. Side by side with the profession of agriculture the profession of dairy has also opened new ways of avenues and development. Really dairy has revolutionized the rural economy of block Kakapora. Dairy farming has been considered a supplementary and complementary. Farming activities are carried by all the members of family irrespective of gender. To a certain level the same has acted as an eye opener for the women. Although women can change their status through dairy, through entrepreneurship women can not only generate income for herself but equally for others. The dairy sector has the potential to absorb large number of people. In the dairy field they can act as owners as well as workers.