1Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, GADVASU, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
2Department of Animal Nutrition, GADVASU, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
3Director of Extension Education, GADVASU, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
4Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, GADVASU, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
*Corresponding author: JS Hundal; Email: drjshundal@yahoo.com
Online published on 15 June, 2017.
A purposive study on field veterinarians of Punjab was conducted to have the idea of their knowledge on applied animal nutrition aspects of dairy farming. A total of 116 veterinarians across the state were randomly selected for the said study. Veterinarians were asked to answer the 53 questions comprising of fill in the blanks, open ended question, interrogative and negative question on basic of distinct aspects of applied animal nutrition as knowledge of feed, green fodder, anti-nutritional factor, mineral mixture, urea feeding etc. The descriptive analysis of the survey revealed the major gap in knowledge about these aspects. Veterinarian knowledge score varies from 44.52 for concentrate to 57.64% for forages. Overall score (50.52%) indicated the dire need to strengthen the knowledge of veterinary officers in applied animal nutrition subject so that they can match with the need of dairy farmers.
Animal nutrition, field vets, knowledge level
