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standard, toned and double toned milk were worked out as Rs.20.19, 18.95 and Rs. 18.76, respectively.Repayment performance of SHGsThe study of factors Influencing Group RepaymentPerformance of loan (micro finance) in Haryana concludedthat if the essence of self help group and cooperation isfostered and monitored properly, the poor can also repay theloan. Peer monitoring, group size and female percentage inthe self help group was found to have positive influence on therepayment performance of the Self Help Groups.Visioning Analysis of Indian Dairy SectorThe visioning analysis for the dairy sector in India indicatedthat overall country will remain net surplus in milk till 2021under all situations of supply and demand. The lowest surpluscould be 1.724 million tonnes under Business As Usual(BAU)-High growth combination of situations of supply anddemand, respectively. The surplus may go up to 48.719 milliontonnes in case of HOS-Low growth situations. However, thesituation does not continue to be the same by 2035. Even thesurplus systems of milk production show the sign of deficitespecially in the situation of high growth on the side of factorsaffecting demand. In 2035, country would be surplus under allsituation of demand growth only if HOS of milk productionprevailed. Under HOS, the surplus varied from 19.190 milliontonnes under High Growth to 75.747 million tonnes underLow Growth situations of demand.For higher growth in milk production, the capital expenditureon dairy development as percentage of total animal husbandryexpenditure be increased from 6.58% to 14%. This will resultin enhancing the capacity of production by improving thehealth services, fodder production and processing of milk.Future policy of export need to be concentrated on cheese,whey-based and fermented dairy products in new andemerging markets in Asian and North African countries.Prediction of Economic TraitsEmerging connectionist paradigm has been successfullyemployed to predict economic traits in Murrah buffaloes forthe first time. The connectionist models have been foundbetter alternative to the conventional multiple linear regressionmodels.New Website of the Institute DevelopedNew Website of the Institute has been developed inaccordance with the ‘Uniformity Guidelines for ICARWebsite’. The website is fully operational and being usedextensively for information dissemination among the differentstakeholders/end-users. One of the salient features of thewebsite is role-based security mechanism, which allows instantupdating of information at the source of information itself,e.g., every faculty members/division and the purchase sectioncan independently update/upload its information as and whenrequired. Website content is regularly updated.Promoting dairy enterprise through transfer oftechnologies••A film on the story of successful dairy entrepreneur wasmade based on case studies conducted on successful dairyentrepreneurs.••Farmer participatory field trials for estrus synchronizationand fixed time AI (FTAI) programme were conductedin cattle & buffaloes to propagate simple, cost-effectivehormone treatment schedules.••A Learning module on reproductive management wasdeveloped and used to educate farmers.TheQuinquennium Golden2007-201231