Interaction
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 29
  • Issue: 3

Communicational behaviour of goat keepers towards improved goat rearing practices

  • Author:
  • Kedar Nath Yadaw1, M. L. Sharma2, Shatish Verma3, Manoj K. Jhariya4
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 87 to 91

1Ph. D. Scholar, Department of Agriculture Extension, I.G.K.V., Raipur (C.G.)

2Professor, Department of Agriculture Extension, I.G.K.V., Raipur (C.G.)

3Ex. P.G. Student, Department of Agriculture Extension, I.G.K.V., Raipur (C.G.)

4Ph. D. Scholar, Department of Forestry, I.G.K.V., Raipur (C.G.)

Online published on 14 November, 2017.

Abstract

The present study was an attempt in the same direction to analyze the communication sources used by the goat keepers. The aim of present study was to know the different media sources used by the goat keepers and frequency of use among them. This study was conducted on 120 goat keepers selected from twelve villages of Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh state in the year 2010 to ascertain the information sources about improved goat rearing practices. The study reveals that veterinary field assistant, friends/neighbour/relatives, veterinary doctors and progressive goat keepers were the major sources of nformation of the respondents for seeking the information about improved goat rearing practices. Majority of the respondents had contacts with Veterinary field assistant and occasionally (monthly) cosmopoliteness.

Keywords

Communication, goat keepers, information