Vol. 8, Issue 12 (2019)

Author(s):
Santhoshini Chinta, CH Satyanarayana, M Srinivasa Reddy, T Raghunandan and DBV Ramana

Abstract:
Dairy farmers' Perceived effect of Climate Variability in Southern Telangana Zone, Data was collected by using the structured interview schedule. Six mandals from each district of Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda were selected purposively based on climate variability data and two villages from each mandal were selected by simple random sampling technique. Based on the available dairy farmers’ population in the selected villages, 10 per cent of the sample size (254 respondents) from 24 villages in 12 mandals of Southern Telangana zone was selected for the study. The study revealed that More than half (51.97%) of the respondents had medium, 33.86 per cent of the respondents had high, and followed by 14.17 percent of the respondents had low perceived effect of climate variability. All the respondents strongly agreed that there is shortage of fodder, decreased water resources, reduced milk production. 96.06 per cent, 80.31 per cent were strongly agreed that there is reduced feed intake and increased water intake during heat stress. 96.06 per cent were strongly agreed that lactation length will be decreased heat stress. 86.61 per cent and 56.30 per cent were strongly agreed that body weight gain will be reduced due to heat stress and there is increased incidence of parasitic infestation respectively. 94.49 per cent, 93.70 per cent and 92.91 per cent were strongly agreed that there is increased incidence of anoestrous, decreased conception rate and delayed puberty and maturity during heat stress respectively.