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.

This study endeavours to embrace a bibliometric analysis of the research publications of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) from 2008-2019. It is in this context that the present study aims to audit the exploration execution the research performance of PDPU based on the papers published in journals that have indexed in Scopus for as far back as eleven years. The total number of 931 publications has retrieved from the Scopus database. Amongst them, 64.44 % are research articles published in scholarly journals and 28.89 % in Conference proceedings. The paper also analyzed the publication trend of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University and found that from 2008 onwards there was a steady increase in the number of publications. The authors attempt to identify the current trends in research output by PDPU, which includes the most prolific authors, institutional collaborative works, research productivity in terms of publications, highest citations papers, most preferred publications, etc.… The research publications was found highest numbers of publications in the year 2019. Findings of this study also reveal that the “AIP Conference Proceedings” is the most preferred journal, and Mukhopadhyay, I, is the most prolific author and has made the highest number of publications.

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The present study was conducted in the Amreli district of the Saurashtra region. Out of the eleven talukas, five talukas were randomly chosen for the study. One village was then randomly selected from each of the chosen talukas, and a total sample size of 75 farmers was taken, with fifteen farmers from each village. The study utilized an ex-post-facto research design and data was collected through surveys during the period of 2018-19. The findings of the study indicated that the majority of the farmers belonged to the middle to old age group and had attained primary to secondary education. They lived in small families and had low levels of social participation. The farmers mostly had low annual income levels and owned medium to small land holding. Additionally, most of the farmers were solely engaged in farming, had moderate access to sources of information, and displayed a high level of innovativeness. The study also revealed significant correlations between various factors and the respondents’ knowledge about the management practices of white grub in groundnut. Education (0.4225) and innovativeness (0.3711) were highly and significantly correlated at a probability level of 0.01. The source of information (0.2566) was found to be significantly correlated at a probability level of 0.05. However, occupation (-0.2245) showed a negative but significant correlation at a probability level of 0.05 with the respondents’ knowledge about the management practices of white grub in groundnut.