ASSESSMENT OF EXTENSION ADVISORY AND INPUT SERVICES IN CONTRACT AND NON CONTRACT BROILER FARMING IN KARNATAKA
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2022
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KARNATAKA VETERINARY, ANIMAL AND FISHERIES SCIENCES UNIVERSITY, BIDAR
Abstract
Poultry Industry is 5,000 years old. Poultry is one of the most important and
fastest growing sectors of agriculture today in India. The present study was conducted
to know whether the contract and non-contract broiler farmers incur significantly
different production and marketing costs and earn different marketing margins. The
study was conducted in 3 districts of Karnataka and the data was collected from 60
contract and 60 non-contract broiler farmers through pretested interview schedule.
The study revealed that 65 percent are middle aged and 85 percent of contract broiler
farmers are male where as 75 percent are middle aged and cent percent of noncontract
broiler farmers are male, for 66.67 percent of the contract broiler farmer’s
poultry farming is secondary occupation whereas for 60 percent of the non-contract
broiler farmers poultry is the primary occupation. Broiler farming is taken up by all
social groups of the community. Cent percent of the contract broiler farmers depends
on Integrator for the extension advisory services, non-contract broiler farmers depend
upon private poultry consultant for extension advisory services. Production cost is Rs
2.71(includes only Labour, litter, electricity and miscellaneous) and sale rate is Rs
89.92 are less in contract broiler farming, where as in non-contract broiler farming
production cost is Rs 81.30 and sale rate is Rs 98.92 and net return is Rs 11.47 and Rs
40.41per bird respectively. the returns are assured and almost fixed in contract broiler
farming, whereas in non-contract broiler farming they vary widely depending upon
the market price, Establishment of regulatory bodies and expansion and strengthening
of the EAS is essential for further improvement.