Directorate of Extension Education, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
*Corresponding Author’s Email: gmshelly786@pau.edu
Online Published on 30 June, 2023.
Punjab Agricultural University is regularly organizing kisan mela since 1967 and a large number of farmers visits these melas in order to acquaint themselves with the recent technologies developed by the university. Further, in order to disseminate latest technologies amongst farming community, it is essential to assess the training needs and availability of existing resources with the farmers. The present study was thus conducted to assess the status of dairy animals kept by those farmers who visited kisan mela during September,2022 in order to plan various extension activities to be undertaken in near future for the benefit of dairy farmers in the state of Punjab. The study was conducted on 85 farmers who visited PAU exhibition stall to get themselves registered for future extension activities of the university. A total of 85 were interviewed through questionnaire specially designed in order to know the status of dairy farmers in the state. It was found that maximum number of farmers were from district Moga (17.64%) followed by Ferozepur (16.47%) and Sangrur (12.94%), Ludhiana (8.23%) , Barnala (7.05%) and Mukatsar (5.88%)
