Volume : II, Issue : VII, July - 2013

Assessing the Training Need of Dairy Farmers on Scientific Cattle Management Practices

Shibu K Jacob, Anu George

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Multi stage random sampling technique was adopted for the study. Palakkad district being the highest milk producing district of Kerala state was selected purposively. The vandazhy gram panchayat was selected randomly from the district. Sixty dairy farmer members of Mangalam Dam milk co-operative society were selected randomly for the focus group discussion which was organised at the APCOS to suggest the topics of training modules regarding the modern dairy farming practices. Training is an organized activity aimed at imparting knowledge, skills, and competencies to a person for improving his/her performance or to help him or her to arrive at a required level of knowledge or skill. Training need was operationalised as the expressed level of training needed by the respondent in each of the training areas pertaining to scientific dairy farming. It was assessed by personal interview method using a semi structured interview schedule. Schedule developed by Rani (2004) was suitably modified and adopted for measuring the training needs of dairy farmers. The domains included in the schedule were housing of cattle, eeding, feeding, clean milk production (CMP) practices health care and marketing. Training Need Indices (TNI) were calculated regarding each item of the major domains. The major domains which contained items having good TNI were identified to be included in the training curriculum. Out of the six domains, housing of cattle was thrown as there was nobody to point out it as an important area (TNI=0). All the other domains found their place in the list of training needs.

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Shibu K Jacob, Anu George Assessing the Training Need of Dairy Farmers on Scientific Cattle Management Practices International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 2, Issue : 7 July 2013

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