Knowledge Index on Scientific Poultry Farming among Online Trainees

Indian poultry sector is a profitable industry with enormous growth potential. Poultry farming is regarded as a crucial self-employment tool since it provides a wide range of opportunities for generating income among socio-economically weaker section. During and after COVID -19 pandemic, many extension services provided through technology enabled webinars to the farmers. The Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pookode organized webinars for poultry farmers in July 2021. The present study was aimed to measure the farmer’s knowledge about scientific poultry farming practices. The data were collected from 70 farmers by using semi-structured interview schedule through google form. The overall knowledge index was 66.86 per cent. Most of the farmers possessed medium level of knowledge about scientific poultry farming practices (60.0%). Further, 80.57 per cent of the farmers were having knowledge about breed and breeding management in poultry farming.