Adoption of improved scientific goat rearing practices in Tamil Nadu

Kumar, P. Suresh; Vasanthakumar, P.

doi:10.5958/0973-9718.2017.00025.3

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“…Regarding general management practices (Table 2) adopted by the farmers, weaning of kids (78.33) had higher adoption index score followed by farm record maintenance(75.00), tagging (70.41), castration of kids (70.00) and hoof trimming (20.41). This is in agreement with the findings of Singh et al, (2017); Suresh and Vasanthakumar (2017) who reported that castration of male had fewer adoption score and weaning of kids had higher adoption score, respectively. Kumar (2007) reported in his study on commercial goat farming in India that, overall 6.00 per cent of the commercial goat farmers had adopted hoof trimming, 67.00 per cent adopted tagging of kids for identification and 72.00 per cent and 50.00 per cent of them had awareness and adoption of farm record maintenance, respectively.…”

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Adoption Level of Improved Goat Farming Technologies by Commercial Goat Farmers in Tamil Nadu

Gunaseelan¹,

Singh²,

Verma³

et al. 2018

Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci

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A study was undertaken to assess the adoption level of commercial goat farmers under semi-intensive and intensive systems of management in Tamil Nadu. To this survey, a sample of 120 commercial goat farmers (20 farmers from each district) was selected randomly from 6 districts of Tamil Nadu. Data revealed that, overall 46.67 per cent of the commercial goat farmers had medium level of adoption of improved goat farming practices, followed by high (33.33 %) and low (20.00 %) extent of adoption. Average adoption indices of improved goat farming technologies were 60.71, 64.61, 76.19 and 67.20 for small, medium, large and overall categories of farmers, respectively. Overall adoption index of improve goat husbandry practices by the commercial goat farmers revealed that, housing practices obtained highest adoption index (74.41-I) followed by feeding (67.42-II), health care (66.00-III), breeding (65.33-IV) and general management practices (62.81-V).Multiple linear regression analysis showed that, the factors viz., family income, investment on goat farming, flock size and economic motivation had positive and significant (1 % level) influence on the variability in adoption levels of commercial goat farmers. Education and system of management of goats showed positive and significant (5 % level) towards adoption of commercial goat farmers.

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Adoption Level of Improved Goat Farming Technologies by Commercial Goat Farmers in Tamil Nadu

Gunaseelan¹,

Singh²,

Verma³

et al. 2018

Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci

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“…The major constraints were nonavailability of green fodder, lack of grazing area, lack of veterinary services, lack of credit facility, lack of improved breeding ram, inadequate price for the animals, illiteracy and poor knowledge of scientific sheep rearing. These findings are almost similar to that recorded by Nitharwal (1999), Kulkarni and Jawahar (2000), Kumar (2003), Mohan and Singh (2004), Meganathan et al (2004), Senthil andMeganathan (2005), Singh and Chauhan (2006), Porwal et al (2006), Gurjar and Pathodia (2008), Suresh et al (2008) but are contradictory with findings of Eswara and Radha (1996), Misra et al (2000), Kumaravel and Krishnaraj (2007), Swarnkar and Singh (2010).…”

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Constraints being perceived by sheep rearers in arid and semiarid region of Rajasthan

Choudhary¹,

Kumar²,

Goswami³

et al. 2018

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The data were collected from 120 sheep rearers selected from 8 villages of two tehsils of Bikaner district. The information was collected from respondents on breeding practices of sheep by an interview schedule.On the basis of Rank based quotient (RBQ) value the main constraints identified were lack of grazing area and non-availability of green fodder with the RBQ values of 64.08 and 62.50 respectively. Lack of veterinary services was the third most serious constraint perceived by respondents obtaining RBQ value at 58.42%. Similarly, other constraints identified by respondents were ranked on the basis of the RBQ values.

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“…Data were collected from these five districts using stratified random sampling. Two hundred fifty households' data were collected on management practices and farmers socioeconomic profiles using a pretested interview schedule as per the [6] guidelines. The interview schedule was carefully prepared to cover all aspects of Thanjavur Black goat farming to collect the most first-hand information (primary data) from the farmers.…”

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General Management Practices and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Thanjavur Black Goat Farmers of Tamil Nadu

Nithiaselvi

Muthialu

Selvaramesh³

et al. 2023

AJAEES

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Aim: The present study was carried with the objective to know the management practices and socio-economic characteristics of Thanjavur Black goat farmers. Place and Duration of Study: Thanjavur, Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Tiruchirappalli and Pudukkottai districts of Tamil Nadu from April to September 2022. Methodology: Data was collected from 250 goat flocks in five districts of Tamil Nadu using stratified random sampling through a pretested interview schedule and analyzed by percentage, frequency and the Chi-square test. Results and Conclusion: The study revealed that Thanjavur Black goats were compact and docile in nature, so 54.40 percent of small farmers (with up to 2.5 acres) preferred to rear this goat. The Thanjavur Black goat is a native goat and mainly reared for meat purposes; 72.80 percent of the goat flocks were small (1–15 goats). Further, 51.20 percent of farmers were male, the majority of whom were in their middle age (59.60%) and had less than 5 years of experience in goat farming (47.20%). Besides, about 40.40 percent of the farmers completed their primary education and farmers, who accounted for 69.60 percent of them, were the most backward community. The study found that the majority of the farmers engaged in small-scale goat rearing as an additional source of income. The study further shows that 85 percent of the goat shelters were half open without a side wall, 50.80 percent of the farmers followed grazing only with additional rice gruel, 86.80 percent of mating happened on grazing land with other herd mates. Foot and mouth disease, enterotoxaemia and peste des petits ruminants disease were major in Thanjavur Black goats. So far, no significant efforts have been attempted to register this indigenous germplasm. The current study was conducted to record the management practices and socio-economic profile of the farmers.

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Adoption of improved scientific goat rearing practices in Tamil Nadu

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Adoption Level of Improved Goat Farming Technologies by Commercial Goat Farmers in Tamil Nadu

Adoption Level of Improved Goat Farming Technologies by Commercial Goat Farmers in Tamil Nadu

Constraints being perceived by sheep rearers in arid and semiarid region of Rajasthan

General Management Practices and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Thanjavur Black Goat Farmers of Tamil Nadu

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