Journal of Dairying Foods & Home Sciences
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2004
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue: 2

Constraints experienced by the meena tribes in adoption of improved dairy farming practices

  • Author:
  • H.R. Meena, R.M. Fulzele
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 94 to 99

* Scientist, Division of Extension Education, IVRI, Izatnagar, Bareilly, U.P.

** Principal Scientist, Dairy Extension Division NDRI, Karnal (Haryana) - 132 001.

Abstract

The majority of respondents experienced the constraints such as preference of natural service (91.50%), lack of good breed-able bulls (88.00%), and lack of A. I. centres, ill equipped A.I. centres, lack of service at AI. centres, distant location of veterinary hospital (86.00%) were in breeding practices; whereas majority of the respondents experienced constraints in feeding practices such as belief that colostrums feeding is unhygienic and it may be harmful to the health of calves (90.00%), high cost involved in purchase of ingredients concentrate mixture (86.00%) and lack of knowledge about proper amount of concentrate feeding (80.00%). As far as constraints in management are concerned, nonavailability of livestock extension offieers and veterinary doctors in time (93.00%), distant location of veterinary dispensary (87.00%) and belief that anger of god(s)/goddess(s) cause diseases in animals (80.50%) were experiencing.