Indian Journal of Extension Education

A study was conducted on level of adoption of Japanese quail rearing practices in district Vaishali. The data were collected from 130 respondents on the basis of interview schedule with the help of questionnaire. From the present study, it was found that before the training 32.19 percent farmers were aware about the improved health practices while majority (67.80%) of the rural quail rearing farmers were unaware about the improved management practices like brooding, cleaning and use of disinfectant for unit, feeding readymade feeds, postmortem of dead birds by vet doctors, segregation of diseased birds, provide mineral mixture, timely treatment of sick birds and consulting vet doctors. However after training (83.89%) farmers were aware about the health practices and majority (79.02%) of the respondents adopted these management practices. Timely treatment of sick birds (t=20.29), Segregation of diseased birds and consulting vet doctors (t=19.10) were found highly significant and positively related to the adoption of management practices. Age of the farmers showed negative correlation (-0.163), while gender, education level and land holding were recorded positive significant correlation with adoption level of respondents. All the management practices were recorded significant values for t test except provide readymade feeds (0.57). Constraints identified were low egg price in summer (92.3%), high cost of inputs (91.53%) and difficulty in finance (80.76%). It indicates government should design a module to provide soft loan, training facilities and proper marketing facilities to the Japanese quail farmers for their betterment.