Information Needs as Perceived by Tribal Dairy  Farmers of Chotanagpur Region in Dairy Farming  Practices

Md Shahid Eqbal; Manish Kumar Singh; Nazam Khan

Volume : III, Issue : VI, June - 2013

Information Needs as Perceived by Tribal Dairy Farmers of Chotanagpur Region in Dairy Farming Practices

Md Shahid Eqbal, Manish Kumar Singh, Nazam Khan

Abstract :

The present study was carried out to assess the information needs as perceived by tribal dairy farmers in Lohardaga district of Chotanagpur region, Jharkhand. The study was conducted in four villages from two blocks of Lohardaga district by personally interviewing 120 tribal respondents. Here, majority of the respondents perceived knowledge of improved eeds (X= 2.35) as major information need in eeding practices followed by feeding of milch animals (X= 2.27), care of milch animals (X= 2.38) and vaccination against contagious diseases (X= 2.42) in feeding, management and health care practices respectively.