The study  was undertaken during the year 2005-06 in Haveri  District of Karnataka to understand adoption behavior, its correlates and income generation process in Swaranajayanthi Gram Swarojagar Yojana(SGSY) for rural women. The data was collected through 200 SGSY women beneficiaries following random sampling procedure through structured interview srhedule in an informational atmosphere.  It was jiJund that majority of the respondents belonged to medium adopter catagory. It was observed that out of 13 selected independent variables, except impersonal cosmopolite all have exhibited sgnificant relation with adoption.  Further, high adopters, medium adopters and low adopters of dairy innovations differed significantly among themselves with respect to their milk production, consumption, income and employment generation.