Adoption of Improved Animal Husbandry Practices by the Members and Non-Members of Dairy Cooperative Societies in Bikaner
2012
Meena, D K | Ram, Hanuman | Meena, B S
The present investigation was concerned with Uttari Rajasthan Sahkari Dugdh Utpadak Sangh Limited (URMUL) Bikaner of Rajasthan to find out the adoption of improved animal husbandry practices by the farmer in the district. URMUL dairy Bikaner rank sixth in terms of milk collecting union and consist of 32 milk procurement routes, out of which eight routes and one dairy cooperative society were selected on the basis of highest milk collection routes. The information was gleaned from 160 respondents i.e. 80 members and 80 non-members by applying random technique. It was found that (42.50 %) of dairy cooperative member were fall under medium adoption category where as fall under low level of adoption improved animal husbandry practices majority of (56.25%) few of non-member was fall under low level. The members were adopting improved animal husbandry practices up to 57.51 percent whereas non-members were adopting the same up to 42.20 percent. There was significant difference in the extent of adoption of improved animal husbandry practices by member and non-member respondents. Further, the higher adoption was observed in case of management practices by both members and non-members. While lowest adoption was observed in case of health care practice of animals in Bikaner of Rajasthan.
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