Backyard Poultry Management Practices in Tribal Area of Dungarpur District of Rajasthan
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2020
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MPUT, UDAIPUR
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The current research was conducted on backyard poultry rearing system in tribal district of Dungarpur including four tehsils of Dungarpur district i.e. Dungarpur, Bicchiwada, Aspur and Sagwara were selected for the study purpose Three villages were selected from each identified tehsils. 15 farmers from every village were randomly selected to make a sample of 180 respondents. The examination revealed that all the selected farmers belonged to tribe of Hindu religion and 51.11 per cent respondents lived in joint families. The respondents were mostly having 4-6 members in their family (69.44per cent).The literacy rate of whole family was 62.62 per cent and all the farmers depended on agriculture plus animal husbandry profession and living in mixed type houses. Most of the farmers (46.67per cent) had 1-2 ha land followed by (45.00per cent) less than 1 ha land, poultry species predilection by the farmers was supreme (70.56per cent). Most of selected farmers (86.11per cent) nourished self-made feed to poultry twice in a day time and 86.11 per cent also provided mineral mixture and 75.00 per cent provided grit to poultry birds by using feeder made up of plastic (36.67 per cent). Maximum of the farmers (75.56per cent) used personal masculine for breeding purpose. Criteria for selection of egg to hatching mostly (92.22 per cent) depended on both egg size and shape. Average egg production was 680 per family. Average income by farming, animal husbandry and labour year-1 was Rs. 138350.15 per respondent. Average 38.91 birds were reared by each respondent and average 10.11 birds consumed and 28.81 birds sold by every respondent. The mean number of eggs produced per year per family was 680 and out of these 170 eggs was spent at home while the 510 eggs were sold out cost. Benefits ratio per respondents was 1:1.95. Predators problems was the major constraints faced by the respondents
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Backyard Poultry Management Practices in Tribal Area of Dungarpur District of Rajasthan
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Budharam and Choudhary J.L.