author(s)
NM More, BM Thombre and AT Shinde

abstract
The present investigation entitled “Socio-economic Status and Constraints in Feeding and Management Practices of Dairy Animals in Latur District of Maharashtra” was undertaken to study socio-economic status of dairy farmers. The 120 farmers of 9 villages were selected to study in Latur tahsil of Latur district. The study revealed that 0.83 percent of the respondents were landless, 45.83 percent of the respondents were marginal/small farmers, 38.33 percent of the respondents were medium farmers and 15.00 percent of the respondents were large farmers. Majority of livestock owners reared crossbred animal 76.34 percent followed by indigenous 22.34 percent animal. In constraints, feeding constraints, production and marketing constraints, technical constraints and health related constraints were faced by farmer in livestock management. Various facilities like easy loan facility, availability of pasture land, insurance of animal, timely receipt of payment is expected by farmers. Hence, it may be concluded that there is need to demonstrate scientific feeding and management practices, also management of fodder and water for summer season which is need for exploiting optimum production and proper management of livestock.