“…The agricultural production system in India is quite diverse, mixed and deeply interwoven with livestock rearing and farming, which helps to complement farming income, provide employment, particularly to women, draught power for agricultural operations, fuel for cooking food, manure for maintaining the soil fertility etc. (Kaur & Singla, 2018a;Pawar, 2017;Singh et al, 2007Singh et al, , 2014Venkatesh & Sangeetha, 2011). The regular flow of income from dairying plays a very crucial role to make whole farm income sustainable and helps to reduce the extent of indebtedness among the farmers (Singh et al, 2008).…”