Vol. 11, Special Issue 5 (2022)

Author(s):
AS Arora, Devi Singh Rajput, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, VS Dewal and Vasundhra Dawra

Abstract:
The present study was conducted on randomly selected 320 cattle owners of four districts of Rajasthan i.e. Bharatpur, Kota, Jodhpur and Sri Ganganagar to assess the knowledge based training needs regarding scientific cattle management practices. The results of the study revealed that majority of the cattle owners (71.87%) had moderate followed by low (15%) and high (13.12%) knowledge based training needs regarding scientific cattle management. The findings further revealed that age had positively and significantly correlated (P<0.01) with health care, feeding and management practices while positively but non significantly related with breeding practices, whereas education, land holding, cattle holding, income from cattle rearing and gross annual income had negatively and significantly related (P<0.01) with knowledge based training needs among cattle owners overall scientific cattle management practices.