Accessibility and Utilization of Extension and Veterinary Services by Badri Cattle Owners in Uttarakhand

Indigenous cattle have many advantages over cross bred cattle. The newly registered Badri cattle from Uttarakhand by NBAGR is the 1st certified cattle breed of state but showing a negative population growth although it makes an important component of livelihood & earning of landless & smallholder farmers in hills of Uttarakhand. So the present study was conducted to find the extension and veterinary services available for the Badri cattle owners in hills of Uttarakhand which experience wide range of temperature variation. A total of 120 respondents 60 each from Almora and Pauri Garhwal district were selected for the study and data was collected based on the semi-structured interview schedule. The study revealed that majority of the respondents had medium (74.20%) followed by high (18.30%) and low (7.50%) informal interpersonal source utilization. For formal interpersonal source majority of the respondents had low (45.00%) followed by medium (44.20%) and high (10.80%) utilization pattern and for mass media source utilization, majority of the respondents had medium (70.00%) followed by low (24.20%) and high (5.80%) utilization pattern. Majority of the respondents (65.00%) have not attended any training. Cent per cent of the respondents who attended training said that the training/camps were organized by government. Cent per cent of the respondents admitted being benefitted by the training. None of the respondents were having insurance of their cattle or applied/obtained any loan or any government assistance or credit facility for buying Badri cattle or for building shed etc.