Adoption of Scientific dairy management Practices in Assured and Less Irrigated Areas Farmers of Aligarh district

Rupendra Kumar; S.P.S. Somvanshi; Rajeev Singh Chauhan; S.K. Jha

Volume : IV, Issue : XII, December - 2014

Adoption of Scientific dairy management Practices in Assured and Less Irrigated Areas Farmers of Aligarh district

Rupendra Kumar, S. P. S. Somvanshi, Rajeev Singh Chauhan, S. K. Jha

Abstract :

Study reveals that (49.00%) of farmers of assured irrigated area were high level adoption of dairy management practices, while less irrigated area farmers were only 7 percent adopted. On pooled basis majority of the farmers (54.33%) had fell in the medium category of adoption. Majorities (61.33%) of farmers in assured irrigated area have high level of adoption, while, in corresponding category majority of farmers (75.33%) had low level of adoption. Farmers of the assured irrigated area continued adopted the (66.0%) of deworming practice. a wide variation had seen in adoption of isolation of sick animals in assured (68.02 %) and less (7.33%) irrigated areas. The high level of adoption of dairy management and healthcare practices in assured irrigated area might be due to resource availability of farmers, highly extension contact, high and level of knowledge about improved dairy husbandry cooperative societies as compared to less irrigated area.