ALTERNATE DAIRY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF NEW BORN ANIMALS FOLLOWED BYD AIRY FARMERS DURING DROUGHTIN PATAN DISTRICT OF GUJARAT STATE, INDIA
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 12
Abstract
India is an agriculture based country and livestock sector plays an essential role in our country GDP and it is highly affected by the climatic variability such as drought, flood, etc. Drought is hazard of nature and which affects larger area and may persist for longer duration. Due to low availability of water, the forage crops unable to grow and get dry which ultimately cause death of livestock due to off feed or eating of poisonous feed during scarcity period. Patan District of Gujarat state in India was purposively selected for the study, which comprises six districts of North Gujarat region. In which Patan district was selected purposively. The present study was conducted in the Harij and Radhanpur talukas of Patan district. Six villages from each taluka were randomly selected. Thus, total 120 respondents were selected for the study. The data were collected by personal interview technique through a structural schedule. In Personal and socio-economic characteristics, majority of respondents (84.16 per cent) belonged to middle age group. Majority of total respondents (39.17 per cent) had low family education status. Majority of respondents (61.67 per cent) came from nuclear families. About 40.00 per cent of farmers had dairy as major occupation during drought period whereas during normal period only 25.00 per cent. Income decreased upto 100 per cent of respondents amongst high income group. Irrespective of landholding, farmers from low income category were severely affected in terms of decrease in income upto 46.67 per cent from livestock. Herd size reduced upto 70.00 per cent during drought by the farmers owning large herds. Majority of the respondents (66.67 per cent) had experienced of more than the 10 years.In alternate dairy management practices of newborn animals include more than 50.00 per cent respondents use jute bag for cleaning body of new born. About 95.83 per cent of never used any equipment for cutting of naval cord, 95.83 per cent of the respondents never used any kind of disinfect over naval cord, 91.67 per cent of the respondents fed colostrums first time to calf after discharge of the placenta, 85 per cent respondent kept their young one separately. More than 90 per cent of the respondents dispose off their male calf/kids by relieving and selling.About 20.83 per cent of the respondents followed the castration during normal period as compared to none during drought.
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D. M. CHAUDHARY
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