Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 1

Adoption of Improved Dairy Farming Practices in South-West Delhi District

  • Author:
  • Shridhar Patil, Vankudothu Ravinder Naik, R.N. Padaria
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 69 to 72

Division of Agricultural Extension, IARI, New Delhi-110012

Online published on 15 February, 2014.

Abstract

The present study was conducted in south west Delhi district, a typical peri-urban area with concentrated dairy farming villages in Najafgarh tehsil. Results of the study revealed that very small dairy farmers had lower adoption of scientific dairy management practices, whereas most of the farmers were not able to follow improved management practices. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that the differences between the groups of scientific dairy farming practices of dairy farmers were significant as indicated by the significant F-value (3.390).

Keywords

Adoption, Dairy farming