Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Ankush Bharti, Debasis Ganguli, Arunasis Goswami, Pankaj Kumar, Deepak Kumar and Sanjay Kumar

Abstract:
Buffalo plays an important role in Indian dairy sector. It holds the greatest promise for food security and sustainable development in the typical farming system of India. The buffalo is one of the major livestock species contributing to the livelihood security of the farmers in our country. However, due to unawareness and some other factors scientific buffalo farming practices are not adopted at desired level by majority of buffalo farmers in many areas of our country. With this background a study on adoption level of scientific buffalo farming practices was taken up to identify the present status of buffalo farming and to reveal the adoption level of scientific buffalo farming practices along with factors associated with it. The study was conducted in Madhepura district of Bihar with a sample size of 100 buffalo farmers. The result reveals that majority of the farmers did not adopt most of the scientific buffalo farming practices due to unawareness, lack of training and some other factors. Considering the importance of buffalo farming regular awareness camps and proper training must be organized to improve the socio-economic status of the farmers by helping them to adopt scientific buffalo farming practices. 26 items from different aspects of improved buffalo farming practices viz. Feeding practices, management practices, health care and control practices and breeding practices was developed to ascertain the adoption level of the respondents. Under feeding practices colostrum feeding rank 1st. Under management practices navel cord cutting practices rank 1st. Under health care practices maggot treatment rank 1st. and in case of breeding practices regular pregnancy diagnosis ranks 1st that was interesting followed by heat detection which ranks 2^nd.