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OtherItem Open Access An Analysis on Risk Management Among Dairy Farmers of Tamil Nadu(TANUVAS, Chennai, 2013-06) Sudeepkumar, N.K.; Nisha, P.R.; Senthilkumar, S.; Senthilkumar, G.OtherItem Open Access Characterization of Pathogenic Potential of Pasteurella Multocida Isolate by Allele-specific Polymerase Chain Reaction of the PTFA Gene(TANUVAS, Chennai, 2012-09) Sukumar, K.; Nisha, P.R.; Yamunadevi, V.; Rajeswar, J. Johnson; TANUVASArticleItem Open Access Community Rearing System of Pulikulam Cattle : A Case Study in Tamil Nadu, India(Indian Veterinary Journal, 2016-01) Sudeepkumar, N.K.; Nisha, P.R.; Senthilkumar, S.; Senthilkumar, G.; Thilakar, P.; TANUVASIndia takes a pride of possessing the finest breeds of draught animals. In India, draught cattle play a fundamental and pivotal role in livelihood improvement as they provide farm power and contribute to food security, poverty reduction, income generation and to some extent gender equity. Traditionally, these animals are also being utilized in bull fighting I bull baiting game as a sign of braveness named 'Jallikattu' or 'Eru Thazhuvuthal'. The draught animal population seemed to decline continuously in India as well as in the state of Tamil Nadu due to many reasons like agriculture mechanization, reduction in grazing land, migration, land encroachment, cattle sent for slaughter, etc. Of the many indigenous breeds of draught cattle reared in Tamil Nadu, Pulikulam is the breed maintained by community rearing system and an attempt was made to explore the management practices followed in Pulilulam cattle rearing. Pulikulam breed is also known as Jallikattu breed in local language. They are also known as Kilakad or Kilkattu. This breed is found in Madurai, Sivaganga, Virudhunagar and Theni districts of South Tamil Nadu. The breed is very compact with stout legs and hard feet. They have very powerful loins, shoulders, neck and capable of doing very hard work. This breed of cattle is comparatively small in size, but is very active and capable of much endurance. In the villages of South Madurai the small bulls are kept for the purpose of bull fighting or rather bull baiting and were known as "Jallikattu" reported that this breed received National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR), Kamal, Haryana, recognized 'Pulikulam' as 35th registered indigenous cattle breed in the country. As per a survey, the population of Pulikulam cattle in and around Madurai has drastically come down from 90,000 in the year 1995 to 45,000 in 2006 to 21,225 in 2012 (Mallady, 2013).ArticleItem Open Access CONSTRAINTS FACED BY THE VETERINARY TEACHING FACULTY(TANUVAS, 2011-01) Nisha, P.R.; Sudeepkumar, N.K.; TANUVASA study was conducted to understand the constraints faced by the faculty of Madras Veterinary College, Chennai. The data were collected using a questionnaire from 45 teaching faculty. Conventional analysis in the form of percentages and averages were used to analyse the data. The study showed that too much administrative procedures, inadequate manpower availability, inadequate budget for maintenance, lack of training, lack of administrative and secretarial assistance in the department, lack of laboratory facilities and job not challenging were the major constraints faced by the staff. Long distance of travel from home to office, uncomfortable working time, inadequate inter / intra-department co-operation, inadequate administrative assistance at higher level, lack of quality leadership, family obligation, inadequate library facilities and data analysis facilities were categorised under low level of constraint faced by the respondents.OtherItem Open Access Consumption Pattern of Meat of Small Ruminants in Namakkal District(2014-12) Safiullah, A.; Sasikala, V.; Nisha, P.R.; Saravanan, K.P.; TANUVASOtherItem Open Access Development and Shelf-life Evaluation of Finger Millets Based Extruded Product(TANUVAS, 2016-02) Vimalarani, M.; Gayathri, S.; Thenmozhi, P.G.; Devaki, K.; Nisha, P.R.ThesisItem Open Access Development Of An ‘IT’ Enabled Need Based Dairy Advisory System(Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, 2008) Nisha, P.R.; TANUVAS; Sudeepkumar, N.K.; Mathialagan, P; Thirunavukkarasu, M; Subramanian, AIndia is a country where majority of the population lives in rural areas and are dependent on agriculture. Agriculture, being influenced by climatic conditions, livestock rearing is central to the survival of millions of small, marginal farmers and landless agricultural labourers across the country. Livestock sector plays an important role in socio-economic development of rural households. Among the livestock, cattle and buffaloes play a significant role with the potential to provide gainful self-employment and sustainable income to the rural poor. Rural communities and small-scale agricultural producers are deeply affected by global, economic, environmental and political forces. The gap between the information rich and information poor is getting wider. Today’s extension machineries are unable to cope up with this gap. The computer aided knowledge dissemination mechanism help to reach the un-reached. With the present infrastructure, one cannot expect poor farmers and food insecure residents to use computers for improving their lives. However, the existing extension personnel can take advantage of the modern communication technologies to improve the transfer of technology process. With this background, the study was undertaken to study information needs of dairy farmers and to develop an ‘IT’ module to disseminate the need based information. The perception of the extension personnel and dairy farmers on the developed module was studied and related with their characteristics so as to propose suitable strategies. Data were collected to identify the needs of farmers on various aspects of dairy farming from researcher, extension personnel and dairy farmers.Thirty four researchers from Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS), 56 extension personnel from the State Animal Husbandry department, dairy cooperatives and private dairies of Erode and Kancheepuram districts and 120 dairy farmers from eight villages of 4 blocks in Erode and Kancheepuram districts formed the respondents for the study. The data pertaining to the needs of the dairy farmers were collected and analysed. The identified needs were prioritised based on which a computer- based module was developed using Macromedia Flash programme. The suggestions from the subject matter specialists, extension personnel and farmers were taken, suitable modifications done and module finalised. The perceived usefulness of the module was evaluated among the farmers and extension personnel. The relationship of socio-economic characteristics of the dairy farmers and extension personnel with that of the usefulness of the module was analysed using correlation and multiple regression. The study revealed that 46 per cent of the extension personnel belonged to young age group, with less than 10 years of experience. Majority of the respondents had basic professional degree. Equal number (45 per cent) of respondents had low as well as high level of information acquisition behaviour. They had low level of information processing behaviour, information storage behaviour and information dissemination behaviour. The attitude towards computer usage was medium to high with high level of knowledge and medium level of skill in using computer. Majority of the extension personnel had high level of achievement motivation, high level of attitude towards working in rural areas and low level of attitude towards villagers. Majority of the dairy farmers were of middle to old age, literate, with dairy farming as their subsidiary occupation. They had medium level of annual income, high level of experience in dairy farming and maintained small herd size of less than 3.9 animal units. The dairy farmers had medium level of scientific orientation, high level of economic motivation (46 per cent), low level of information seeking behaviour on dairy farming and medium to high level of decision making behaviour. They had high level of attitude towards computer usage but no farmer had the skill to use the computer. The information needs of dairy farmers were collected under six major sub-heads and a total of 31 needs were identified. They include topics on breeding (seven), feeding (six), management (nine), marketing (one), disease control (three) and calf management (five). In breeding, seven topics viz., breeds used for crossing in Tamil Nadu, heat symptoms, time of service, advantages of artificial insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, importance of inter-calving period and breeding of heifers formed the information needs of dairy farmers. In feeding, balanced feeding, feeding schedule, formulation of ration, fodder cultivation, need for feeding mineral mixture and water requirement were identified as the major needs of dairy farmers. In management, selection of animals, milking methods, clean milk production, drying of animals, summer management, management of heifers, milch and pregnant animals were selected based on the score obtained.In the area of marketing, only animal insurance was the major need identified by the respondents. In disease control, three areas namely deworming, vaccination and repeat breeding were selected. Foot and Mouth Disease, Mastitis and calf diarrhoea were the important needs for more than 50 per cent of the respondents. Based on the needs identified, the contents were organised, script prepared both in English and Tamil , video clipping and photos collected and the ‘IT’ enabled dairy advisory system was developed using Macromedia Flash programme. The suggestions of the subject matter specialists, extension personnel and farmers were included. The overall perception of the farmers and the extension personnel on the dairy advisory system ranged from satisfactory to more satisfactory.The utility, technical and message component were more satisfactory for the farmers than the extension personnel, whereas the useability of the module was more satisfactory for the extension personnel than the farmers. The study revealed that the extension personnel’s attitude towards computer usage, knowledge and skill in using computer are the major factors that contributed to the perception of the module. The remaining characteristics did not have significant association with the perception of the dairy advisory system. The study on the relationship of the farmers characteristics towards their perception of the dairy advisory system showed that age was found to have negative and highly significant relationship with the perception, whereas education and attitude towards computer had a positive and highly significant association with the perception on the module. Information seeking behaviour and annual income had a positive and significant association with the perception, while dairy farming experience had a negative and significant association with the perception.OtherItem Open Access Development of Valuation Index for Dairy Cattle Breeds in Tamil Nadu(TANUVAS, Chennai, 2013-06) Sudeepkumar, N.K.; Nisha, P.R.; Senthilkumar, S.; Senthilkumar, G.ThesisItem Open Access Effect of Stress on Job Performance of Veterinary Teaching Faculty(TANUVAS, 2009) Vijayakumar, G; TANUVAS; Mathialagan, P; Sivakumar, T; Nisha, P.R.ArticleItem Open Access Effectiveness Of Different Training Modes In The Transfer Of Mineral Mixture Feeding Technology Among Dairy Farmers(TANUVAS, Chennai, 2015-03) Mathialagan, P.; Nisha, P.R.; Rajkumar, N. Vimal; Saraswathi, S.; TANUVASThe present study was conducted on 100 dairy farmers selected from four villages of Vellore district of Tamilnadu to ascertain the effectiveness of different training modes for transfer of mineral mixture feeding technology. Gain in knowledge was evident in the sub domains viz., quality of ingredient, preparation of concentrates, storage and feeding of concentrates. There was a significant gain in knowledge of the respondents who taught with the help of short- films than other modes and the calculated "t" value was greater than tabulated and found significant. Therefore, it can be concluded that short- films had increased the knowledge of rural farmersOtherItem Open Access Factors Influencing Valuation of Dairy Buffalo in Tamil Nadu(TANUVAS, Chennai, 2013-06) Sudeepkumar, N.K.; Nisha, P.R.; Senthilkumar, S.; Senthilkumar, G.ThesisItem Open Access Identification and Assessment of Ethno Veterinary Practices in Ruminants Through Participatory Technology Development(TANUVAS, 2012) Josephine, A. Mary Nirmala; TANUVAS; Mathialagan, P.; Raman, M.; Nisha, P.R.ArticleItem Open Access Information Technology in Animal Husbandry Extension CommunicationNisha, P.R.; Narmatha, N.; Senthilkumar, R.; TANUVASCommunication had been important from the time of Adam and Eve. Over the years it has been refined and made into a sophisticated tool. But communication has not been mastered fully even today. Whenever one has thought that he has mastered this skill, something new has developed, resulting in its practice having to be changed and improved yet again. Communication is thus in a constant state of metamorphosis.ArticleItem Open Access Job Performance of Veterinary Teaching Faculty(2011) Vijayakumar, G.; Mathialagan, P.; Nisha, P.R.; TANUVASToday, the main concern in management of human resources is the irnprovement in performance of people Working in the organization with a view of increasing then efficiency through motivation. Unless the employees are well informed about their performance and also their strong and weak points, it is very difficult for them to improve their level of performance. One way of enhancing the perforrnance of employees is to know their level of performance and delineate the factors responsible for it.ArticleItem Open Access Job Satisfaction Among Teachers of Madras Veterinary College(TANUVAS, Chennai, 2012-09) Nisha, P.R.; Sudeepkumar, N.K.; TANUVASA study was conducted to measure job satisfaction and preference towards performance appraisal system among the faculty of Madras Veterinary College, Chennai. The data were collected using a questionnaire from 45 teachers. Job satisfaction was measured in nine facets using scoring techniques to analyse the data. Performance assessment was measured by direct questioning on their satisfaction in the existing system and their preference of how to be assessed by conventional analysis using percentage and results interpreted.ArticleItem Open Access MIGRATORY SHEEP REARING IN THANJAVUR DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADU(Indian Society for Sheep and Goat Production and Utilization, 2016) Nisha, P.R.; Safiullah, A. Mohammed; Sasikala, A.; Saravanan, K.P.; TANUVASSheep are traditionally raised under either stationary or migratory system. Several times, feed scarcity on rangeland forces flock owners to migrate with their flocks for sustenance (Kaul et al., 2004). Migratory sheep rearing is very common among the economically weaker sections of society. Migratory sheep production continues to be an important source of employment (Kumar 2015). However, with the changing times and availability of diverse occupations, there is decline in the number of pastoral nomads (Singh et al., 2006). The present investigation was undertaken in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu with the objectives to study the socio- economic conditions of the migratory sheep farmers and migratory pattern of sheep, to examine cost, yield, income realization and employment generation in migratory sheep system and to document the constraints in migratory sheep rearing system.ThesisItem Open Access Mobile Communication for Effective Livestock Development(TANUVAS, 2013) Das, Subhashree; TANUVAS; Nisha, P.R.; Manivannan, A; Pandian, A. Serma SaravanaOtherItem Open Access Native Chicken - Population, Production and Marketing in South India(2010) Safiullah, A. Mohamed; Sasikala, V,; Nisha, P.R.; Saravanan, K.P.; TANUVAS
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