Knowledge and adoption of scientific poultry production technology by broiler farmers
| dc.contributor.advisor | S.P. Singh | |
| dc.contributor.author | Swu, Ithika C. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-19T07:30:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-19T07:30:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present study was conducted on 125 broiler farmers (21 small, 78 medium and 26 large farmers randomly selected from the five districts viz. Hisar, Jind, Fatehabad, Sirsa and Bhiwani of Hisar Division of Haryana to assess the knowledge level, extent of adoption, constraints affecting the adoption and also to establish the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. The data were collected through pre-structured interview schedule developed for this purpose and by holding personal interview with the broiler farmers during 2009-10. The study revealed that majority of the respondents were belonged to middle aged, having more than secondary level of education, practice poultry farming along with agriculture, possessed small to large land holding, had low farming experience, medium flock size, low level of training, medium level of annual and broiler income, medium mass media exposure, low to medium sources of information, medium to high risk orientation and medium economic motivation. Most of the respondents possessed medium to high level of knowledge about scientific poultry production. Higher knowledge was seen about the practices namely location of shed, use of deep litter system, condition of deep litter, type of feed to be provided, feeding of supplements, use of antibiotics during early life of chicks, favorability to vaccination of birds, disinfection of broiler shed and utilization of used litter (100% each) whereas low knowledge was recorded about length of broiler shed, indication of poor ventilation, use of potassium permanganate, amount of energy in starter and finisher, testing of water, important signs of gout and advantages of vaccination (<47.2%). The broiler farmers were found to have belonged to high level of adoption followed by low and medium. Higher adoption was recorded in case of proper ventilation in the shed, provide adequate feed and water, heating and cooling facilities, use of feeder and waterer, balanced/ready made feed, feed according to age, protection of birds against cold and hot, vaccination against IBD and keeping the litter dry (>98.4%). While low adoption was found about providing roofs according to seasons, daily rack the litter in deep litter system, provide crumbs/pellet feed and vaccination against Newcastle disease (<76%). The study further revealed that most of the respondents perceived high cost of day old chicks and feeds, inadequate knowledge about government services, facilities and high cost of treatment and non-remunerative price of broiler as ‘very serious’ constraints. Age of the respondents negatively and significantly whereas education, farming experience, flock size, training, total income, broiler income, mass media exposure, sources of information, risk orientation and economic motivation were found to have positive and significant correlation in respect of knowledge and adoption while lesser independent variables namely, age of the respondents positively and significantly whereas education, occupation, farming experience, flock size, broiler income, mass media exposure, risk orientation and economic motivation exhibited their negative and significant role in case of perceived constraints. The regression analysis revealed that all the independent variables had contributed 73.9, 75.4 and 65 per cent variation towards the overall knowledge, adoption and perceived constraints. In all the major aspects of broiler production, farming experience, flock size, total income, mass media exposure, sources of information, risk orientation and economic motivation had positive and direst effect on knowledge, adoption and constraints perceived. Maximum substantial indirect effect was seen from total income followed by farming experience and risk orientation in case of knowledge while flock size, farming experience and risk orientation with respect to adoption and total income, broiler income and mass media exposure in case of constraints perceived. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810029074 | |
| dc.keywords | Knowledge, Adoption, Poultry, Production, Technology, Broiler, Farmers | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | LUVAS | en_US |
| dc.sub | Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education | en_US |
| dc.theme | Knowledge and adoption of scientific poultry production technology by broiler farmers | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.V.Sc. | en_US |
| dc.title | Knowledge and adoption of scientific poultry production technology by broiler farmers | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |