Comparative Analysis of Beneficiaries and Non-beneficiaries about Scientific Livestock Farming Practices

Abstract

Background: Punjab being a productive state in agriculture and livestock farming, various institutions are actively involved in Self Help Group formation for socio- economic development of low-income group. Rural women are engaged in small-scale entrepreneurship programme with the help of Self Help Groups. The present study was conducted to assess the impact of livestock based Self Help Groups on knowledge level regarding the scientific livestock farming practices among the beneficiaries of Self Help Groups and non-beneficiaries. Methods: The study was undertaken in Ludhiana district of Punjab. A multistage random sampling procedure was applied to draw the sample for the study. For meeting the objective; 120 beneficiaries and 60 non-beneficiaries were subjected to structured interview schedule. Result: The study revealed that majority of the beneficiaries (50.00%) and non-beneficiaries (55.00%) had medium level of knowledge regarding overall scientific livestock farming practices. Knowledge Index was higher in case of beneficiaries (61.46) than that of non-beneficiaries (56.68). Self Help Groups had made a significant positive impact on knowledge level of the beneficiaries and thus helped in improving overall socio-economic conditions of the rural women.

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“…The findings demonstrated that recipient farmers had knowledge levels significantly higher than those of non-recipient farmers which may be due to the fact that recipient farmers are having more sources of information under OMM. The findings of the study are in line with the findings of Chaddha et al, (2021) [3] in which he stated that the knowledge index of recipient is more than non-recipients in approx. all four aspect of scientific livestock farming practices.…”