Knowledge of smallholder dairy farmers about green fodder innovations in Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu
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2019
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The present study was conducted to analyze the knowledge about green fodder innovations among the smallholder dairy
farmers. The smallholder dairy had been undergoing the process of intensification for the last two decades by adopting
fodder based feeding system. This necessitated analyzing the prominent fodder innovations i.e., Cumbu Napier, Fodder
Sorghum and Hedge Lucerne. The study was conducted in Namakkal district of Tamilnadu. Two blocks each from rainfed
and irrigated areas and three villages from each block were selected purposively based on the cattle population. Atotal of
120 respondents were selected for the study. It was found that 36.66 per cent of the farmers in irrigated farming had high
level of knowledge; whereas in rainfed farming more than half of the respondents (53.33 %) had low level of knowledge.
Nearly two-third (61.67 %) of the respondents in irrigated farming and 41.67 per cent in rainfed farming had knowledge
about the practice of recommended day of first and subsequent irrigation of Cumbu Napier. The educational status, area
under green fodder cultivation, investment in dairying, land holding, experience and mass media exposure had significant
positive relationship with the knowledge of dairy farmers on green fodder innovations.
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TNV_IJEE_2019_55(1)50-54
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Veterinary Science