A Study on Knowledge and Adoption Level of Improved Animal Husbandry Practices by Farm Women of Haryana
Journal Title: Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology - Year 2017, Vol 24, Issue 4
Abstract
The study was conducted in kurukshetra district of Haryana to assess the extent of knowledge and adoption level of farm women for improved animal husbandry practices. Four villages were selected at random from randomly selected two blocks of kurukshetra district and finally 160 respondents selected purposively for the study. Thirty five practices of improved animal husbandry were subdivided into seven major aspects of animal husbandry viz., housing, feeding, pregnant & calf management, breeding management, health management, milking management and marketing. Semi structured interview schedule was used to collect the data, using personal interview. Majority of the respondents had higher knowledge about breeding management with mean knowledge score (4.88) followed by milking management (4.71), health management (4.66), pregnant animal and calf management (4.13) and housing (3.51). Medium level of knowledge of women was found in case of feeding (3.0). The poor knowledge of respondents among all the practices was found about marketing (1.54). In case of adoption the higher adoption mean score was found in health management (4.79) followed by breeding management (4.66), milking management (4.24), pregnant animal and calf management (4.12). Medium level of adoption was reported in case of feeding and low adoption in marketing practices. The age of the respondents was positively correlated with women knowledge in animal husbandry while age and farm assets were negatively correlated with adoption of animal husbandry practices by women.
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Reena Rawal, Seema Rani
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