Educational needs of rural women on healthy milk production in traditional dairy farms in Bam city

Document Type : Research Paper

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Faculty Member, Center of Agricultural Research of Kerman, Iran

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Traditional dairy farms play important role to obtain dairy and rural household income. Rural women are managers these units. Unfortunately, they haven't educated because of social and cultural problems. Milk production contain high microbial count endanger community health and also producers economic in traditional farms. The project has studied educational needs of rural women regarding safe milk production, using correlation descriptive methods. Statistical community includes all rural women in Bam city. By using two stages cluster sampling method 90 numbers to complete questionnaire was selected. The results showed that there are significant relationship between variables age, studies level, cow keeping record times of presence of participants in educational class, visiting selective cow dairy farms and study extensive issues with dairy farmers women knowledge. Finally, it was concluded that traditional dairy farmers women need largely to educate about feeding, disease and health of animal.

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Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research
Volume 45, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
January 2015
Pages 715-724

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