Sangutha, OSNarmatha, NUma, V, et al.,TANUVAS2021-12-162021-12-162019https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810179370TNV_IJEE_2019_55(1)50-54The 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.EnglishVeterinary ScienceArticle