An analysis of adoption and satisfaction level of farmers towards artificial insemination in Jharkhand state

Artificial insemination being the most imperative technique to bring genetic improvement in the animals yet its potential is not entirely adopted by many farmers. The contemporary study was conducted in three districts of Jharkhand to know the present status of artificial insemination. The data was collected from 204 respondents (180 farmers and 24 service professionals) with the help of pre structured interview schedule. The findings of the study revealed that overall, 67.42 per cent of the respondents continued the adoption of artificial insemination whereas 20.36 per cent of the respondents occasionally adopted the artificial insemination and only 12.22 per cent of the respondents discontinued the adoption. On measuring overall satisfactions levels based on five parameters viz. timeliness, variety of semen provided, quality of service, success rate and costliness, the respondents were mostly satisfied by the NGO (BAIF), followed by Government Veterinarians and were least satisfied with the services of Lay Inseminators.