Constraints Faced by Tribal Dairy Farmers  Regarding Dairy Farming Practices in  Lohardaga District of Jharkhand

Md Shahid Eqbal; Manish Kumar Singh; Nazam Khan

Volume : II, Issue : VI, June - 2013

Constraints Faced by Tribal Dairy Farmers Regarding Dairy Farming Practices in Lohardaga District of Jharkhand

Md Shahid Eqbal, Manish Kumar Singh, Nazam Khan

Abstract :

The present study was carried out to analyse the constraints faced by tribal dairy farmers in Lohardaga district of 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 stated their constraint as lack of credit facilities for purchase of feeds, fodders and mineral mixture (X=3.35), non-availability of diagnostic facilities (X=3.18), lack of artificial insemination facility (X=3.17), poor conception rate (X=3.09), non-availability of doctors (X=3.00), non-availability of essential medicines (X=2.90) and high cost of treatment (X=2.66) in dairy farming practices.