Baseline Survey of Animal Husbandry Practices Followed by Tribal Community in the Notified Tribal Area of Dharani Block of Amravati District
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2014
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MAFSU, Nagpur
Abstract
The present research work entitled "Baseline survey of Animal
Husbandry Practices Followed by the Tribal Community in the Notified Tribal
area of Dharni Block of Amravati District was undertaken to study the socioeconomic
status of tribal farmers and their attitude towards animal husbandry
practices to understand their constraints. The Dharni block of Amravati is
notified as trrbal area in Maharashtra, having more than 75 percent of tribal
population. The tribes in this area are living in the periphery of forest and are
totally dependent on forest for their livelihood. They also maintain cows,
buffaloes and desi birds for their livelihood as subsidiary income source. However the productivity of livestock possessed by them is low due to low
genetic potential. ln addition to that the knowledge of animal husbandry
managemental practices is the main constraints for these tribes to have
standard adoption. ln the view these points, this study is planned.
Ten different villages of Dharni Tehsil of Amravati district were
randomly selected for the present investigation. Twenty respondents from
each village were personally interviewed for collection of data. An interview
schedule comprising of different personal and socio-economic parameters,
knowledge test about different animal husbandry managemental practices
and constraints faced was prepared. The interviews were conducted in local
language Marathi so as to have correct and valid responses.
It has been observed that majority of tribal respondents were
literate (65.5%) and were marginal and small farmers having't to 3 animals
with them. The annual income of almost all the respondents was below
50,000/- in study area. The respondents were having sound knowledge of breeding
management, feeding management, milking management and health care of
animals. However, the practices was majority of respondents were having
medium to low adoption level about animal husbandry managemental
practices like exact time of insemination, constitution of concentrate mixture
use of leguminous crops in their ration, necessity of drying of pregnant
animal, lmportance of full hand milking, etc.
The respondents were also facing some constraints in
management of dairy animals because of long distance of A.l centers, nonavailability
of semen at A.l. center, on availability of pasture land for grazing,
non availabrlity of seeds of fodder crops in local market.
The productive performance of local dairy animals maintained by
the tribal was poor. The average milk yield 1.54 liter and 2'6 liter was
recorded for local cow and buffaloes, respectively The dry period of 129 days
in cow and 192 days in buffaloes was observed in the present study'
It is concluded from the present study that, majority of the tribals
were literate, marginal or small farmers and landless laboures having 1 to 3
animalswiththemwithVerylowannualincome(leSSthan50'000/.)'Through
the tribal were having the sound knowledge of various animals husbandry
practices, the adoption level was low to medium The productive performance
of the dairy animals maintained by the tribal was poor because low production
potential of non-descript animals and low to medium adoption of scientific
animal husbandry practices inspite of sound knowledge The tribal were also
facing constraints regarding breeding' feeding and health care management
because of lack of facilities like Veterinary clinic, A.l. centre, Grazing Land,
Water Scarcity, Credit facility Low education standard' less land holding and
no irrigation facilities might have been contribute to very low annual income of
tribal farmers
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