1Veterinary Hospital, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, India
2Directorate of Extension Education, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
3Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
*Corresponding author: HK Verma; Email: hkvpau@gmail.com
Online published on 23 September, 2016.
A field level study was conducted in all the six agro-climatic zones of Punjab state of India to know about the various impediments for dairy farming. A total of 180 dairy farmers (30 from each zone) rearing more than five dairy animals were randomly selected. Respondents were personally interviewed with the help of a pre-tested interview schedule. Most of the dairy farmers (70.6%) were facing green fodder scarcity problem for some period of year. All the farmers revealed high cost of concentrate as a serious constraint in dairy farming when compared to the price, they receive for milk. Majority of the farmers (64.4%) were not dependent on labour. Training facilities regarding dairy farming were either not available (40.5%) or available far away from home (41.7%) to most of the farmers. Milk marketing facilities were available at optimal price (53.3%) and government schemes were easily available to only 2.8% farmers. Majority of the respondents (36.7%) were of the opinion that young generation does not take interest in dairy farming activities.
Impediments, dairy, Punjab, marketing, fodder, training facility
