Indian Journal of Animal Research

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  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 44
  • Issue: 4

Farmers' Opinion About Rearnig of Deoni Cattle

  • Author:
  • B.M. Thombre, B.T. Kolgane, J.V. Mande
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 289 to 292

Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Latur – 413 512, India.

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Abstract

Deoni cattle are known for their physique and drought power. Being the dual purpose breed, these fetch more market prices. Taking into account the merits of the breed, its purity needs to be maintained. So it becomes necessary to study the personal characteristics of deoni rearers and also to know about the opinion of the farmers regarding rearing of deoni cattle. The present study enumerates the opinions that of the 60 respondents studied 88.33 per cent exhibited favourable opinion about the rearing of deoni cattle while about 15.00 per cent had unfavourable opinion and 6.67 per cent of the respondents seemed to be undecided on the issue.

Keywords

Deoni cattle rearers, Cattle rearing, Farmers opinion