SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF REARING GIRIRAJA CHICKEN IN BAGALKOT DISTRICT OF NORTHERN KARNATAKA
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2022
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KARNATAKA VETERINARY, ANIMAL AND FISHERIES SCIENCES UNIVERSITY, NANDINAGAR, BIDAR – 585 226
Abstract
Data on profile characteristics of farmers, priorities for adoption, household
nutritional security, gender issues, socio-economical contribution and constraints
involved in rearing Giriraja chicken were collected from 600 respondents in Bagalkot
District of Karnataka State was analyzed. Majority of the respondents were middle aged,
women, literates, nuclear families with average family size of 5.64 and belong to other
backward classes. Majority of them were marginal farmers followed by small farmers
with agriculture and animal husbandry as primary and subsidiary occupations,
respectively. Majority of them were having experience in rearing Giriraja chicken. The
practices of supplementary feeding; vaccination and treatment; low cost housing or night
shelter; and cleaning or disinfection of night shelter were well received and adopted by
respondents, while chick production and recycling and brooding of day old chicks were
not adopted. The overall adoption behavior of Giriraja chicken was medium with
significant (p<0.0001) difference in change in flock size. Considerable nutritional and
socio-economic contribution of Giriraja chicken has been reported by majority of
respondents. On an average each respondent was consuming 12 gram of chicken and 5.6
eggs per week. The distributional benefits of income through rearing Giriraja chicken
were wide and well recognized. Non availability of Giriraja chicks at nearest place,
unawareness about proper brooding technique were the major constraints and training on
Giriraja chicken rearing, regular chick supply, provision of low cost feed supplements on
subsidy and extending mini-incubator facilities to the farmers at subsidy cost were the
major suggestions perceived by the respondents. The related implications for further
diffusion of Giriraja chicken into the social system were discussed.