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The present study was conducted in Rajasthan. The investigation concerned with semi-arid zone of Rajasthan, which is the highest livestock and bovine population in zone, 6986.2 and 3287.9 thousand; respectively. Milk production and productivity depend on the quality and quantity of feed & fodder. Feed and fodder constitute about 60-70 percent cost of milk production. Fodder crisis in the Rajasthan has been debated long back as it is seen a widening gap between increasing demand and decreasing supply due to diminishing resources. Thus, there is need to devise the way & evolve strategies and solutions to prevent large scale resource depletion which, leads negative effects on the process aimed at achieving sustainable development. Hence, an investigation entitled "A Comprehensive Study on Fodder Production and Its Utilization Pattern in Semi-Arid Zone of Rajasthan" was conducted on proportionate randomly selected 240 dairy farmers belonging to different land holding categories and growing at least two fodder crops in a cropping year and having at least one milch animal during investigation were taken as respondents of Dausa and Tonk districts in Semi-arid zone of Rajasthan. Maximum number of the dairy farmers (43.33%) belonged to middle age category ranging from 36 to 50 years of age. It was found that a sizable proportion of the dairy farmers were illiterate (23.33%) which was closely followed by farmers having education up to senior secondary level (17.50%). More than seventy percent (71.66%) of the farmers felt that the period for green fodder deficit was March to June. While, 19.16 percent of them expressed that the September to February and 9.18 the farmers felt July to October as lean period for the green fodder. Most of the farmers (37.92%) were engaged in agriculture + dairy + labour.
Meena et al. (Wed,) studied this question.