Studies on housing management of buffaloes under rural and urban areas of Indore district of M.P.

The present study was carried out to find out the prevailing managemental practices of dairy animals in rural and urban area of Indore district of Madhya Pradesh. Data were collected from 400 farmers of Indore city. In the study general information and managemental practices followed in rural and urban area on the basis of herd size within different classes of farmers, Housing and health coverage practices in buffaloes. In rural area significantly higher number (59.33%) of farmers had mud houses and mud floor, whereas in urban area 68% farmers had pucca house with concrete floor. In rural area space available per animal was adequate in all cases but in urban area 68% responds had in-adequate space per animal. Majority of the farmers were found careful about sickness of their animals and most of them adopted prophylactic vaccination of their animals. From the study it is concluded that there is significant difference between rural and urban area in most of the managemental practices of dairy farming.