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SUMMARY :The present study was conducted in Wardha district of Maharashtra State in the Vidarbha region. For the study descriptive design namely exploratory research design was used. After critical analysis it was observed that, 99.00 per cent of the respondents had high level knowledge about dairy management practices while 59.00per cent farmers have adopted at medium level. In the mean index value highest knowledge was observed in breeding management practices i.e. 100.00 per cent followed by 93.50 and 83.16 per cent housing, cleaning and health practices, respectively. While, in case of adoption 79.66 average adoption of cleaning management practice was observed. In relational analysis land holding, extension contacts, and annual income were the variables found positively and significantly correlated with knowledge and adoption of dairy management practices.How to cite this article : Chandankar, Vijayashri, Rathod, Trupti, Rathod, M.K. and Jangwad, N.P. (2017). Knowledge and adoption about dairy management practices of farmers in Wardha district.

Temperature is an environmental factor that has a considerable influence on seedling growth and development. It plays a role in seed development, controlling seed yield, composition, and vigor. A laboratory experiment was conducted at Central Phytotron Facility during 2017-2018 in Completely Randomized Block Design (CRD) with two replications. Twenty genotypes were exposed to various temperature regimes viz; control (T1), day/night temperature regime 30 0 C/25 0 C (T2), 32 0 C/27 0 C (T3), 34 0 C/29 0 C (T4), and 36 0 C/31 0 C (T5) under phytotronic conditions for germination in growth chambers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 respectively. Ten seeds per replication were sown in Petri plates and were exposed to above temperature regimes upto 8 days and 10000 foot candle light and 1000 ppm CO2 was provided. Among the genotypes KDS-904 (97.75%) recorded significantly maximum shoot length stress tolerance index percent followed by KDS-1032 (97.43%) while genotype KDS-344 (92.36%) recorded significantly minimum shoot length stress tolerance index percent on the eight day. Similarly among the different interactions day/night temperature regime 36/31 0 C treatment on eighth day, genotype DS-288 recorded significantly maximum total seedling length (10.72 cm) followed by same genotype (10.47 cm) under day/night temperature regime 32/27 0 C whereas genotype KDS-904 recorded significantly minimum seedling length (3.73 cm) under control treatment.

The present study was undertaken in Wardha district of Vidarbha region with sample size of 120 respondents from 12 villages. Data were collected regarding farming systems adopted by the farmers and the economics of all farming systems with the help of pre structured and pretested interview schedule. It was found that cent per cent respondents had adopted agriculture and dairy farming followed by vegetables cultivation (83.33%) and fruit crops (65.00%). Agriculture and all allied enterprises were found beneficial in farmers' situation. It is inferred that vermicomposting had given maximum net profit with B:C ratio 4.89. It was followed by backyard poultry (3.34), apiculture (2.82), forage crop (2.71), sericulture (2.42), agriculture (2.28) and goat rearing (2.21). All above enterprises were giving more than two rupees on expenditure of one rupee. Below two rupees, fruit crops, vegetable crops and dairy farming were giving 1.76, 1.56 and 1.38 B:C ratio, respectively.