No abstract

SUMMARY :Present study was carried out in Vadodara district of middle Gujarat. The animal husbandry is one of the important sources of livelihood of rural people. For data collection two blocks Waghodiya and Sankheda were selected from the district. Five villages of each selected block and 10 livestock rearer's families from each selected village were randomly selected. It can be inferred that great majority (98%) of milk producers have good knowledge of regular cleaning of cattle shed and 96 per cent of the farmer have good knowledge regarding water to be given to a dairy animals. More than 80 per cent farmers have knowledge about heat detection and A. I. to their animals. Lowest number of surveyed famers (26%) have knowledge of regular de-worming to the calf and 30 per cent farmer have knowledge of purchasing animals after veterinary check up followed by knowledge of enrichment of poor qualify roughages by urea treatment (34). 36 per cent farmers have knowledge of cutting and disinfections of naval cord with tincture iodine. Also revealed that majority of the milk producers (94%) are adopting hygienic disposal of placenta followed by quick delivery of milk to the village Co-operative immediately after milking (96%). Lowest number of the framers (2%) showed adoption of the regular grooming and enrichment of poor quality roughages by urea treatment (2%) and 4 per cent farmers followed maintenance of breeding, feeding, health care and production records.

SUMMARY :Farmers had average knowledge about improved practices of green gram cultivation in the Chhotaudaipur district of Gujarat. Farmers possessed comparatively more knowledge about high yielding varieties and time of sowing. Minimum knowledge was possessed in plant protection measures and fertilizer application in greengram cultivation and majority of greengram growers were in medium adoption group followed by low and high adoption group. Greengram growers adopted high yielding variety, seed rate and spacing and time of sowing. Minimum adoption was found in fertilizer application and plant protection measures of improved greengram production technology. The majority of farmers belonged to the middle age group i.e., between 30-54 years. It was further found that 63.0 farmers belonged to the up to secondary category of educational level. The majority of farmers were having more than 2.00 ha land followed by small farmers and marginal farmers in the study sample. It was also found that 88.00 per cent farmers belonged to have more Rs. 24000 income per annu).The 30.00 per cent of farmers were no member of any organization followed by member of one organization (45%) and office bearer of organization (25%).

No abstract