ARUNMOZHI DEVI, M. C.SMITHA. S.2023-11-132023-11-132019https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810201055Dairying is one of the most promising allied sectors of the agriculture and an important economic activity in the livestock sector accounting for about 67.00 percent of the value of output. The country still faces a production shortfall due to massive demand from the growing population and low productivity of Indian cattle. Various efforts, therefore, are underway to generate and disseminate improved livestock practices/technologies to improve the livestock productivity. The present investigation was taken with specific objectives to study the “Technology reach among dairy farmers of Kerala- A Multistakeholder Analysis’. The study was conducted in Kerala State and considering the topographical parameters, four representative districts from each regions of Kerala were selected for the study through random sampling method.From each districts, two villages were selected and from each village twenty five farmers and stakeholders from research and extension domain were randomly selected for the study. Thus the data were collected from a sample of 200 dairy farmers and 90 stakeholders through personal interview method using pretested structured interview schedule. The findings indicated that majority of the farmers (77.00%) were having agriculture and dairying as their primary occupation and a significant percent (68.00%) of them had undergone training programme. The milk production in the respondent household ranged from 25-88 litres/day. The herd size possessed by the respondents ranged from 2 to 23 crossbred cattle. Majority of the respondents had medium level of innovativeness and risk orientation. With regard to technology dissemination activities, research- extension linkage was strong with involvement of researchers as resource person for training programme organized for extension personnel and involvement in animal health and veterinary services. Overall linkage index is strong in extension-farmer linkage, moderate in research -extension linkage and weak in research-farmer linkage. Significant percent (69.00%) of respondents had medium level of overall adoption of technologies. The major constraint faced by the dairy farmers were high cost of cattle feed, veterinary service and medicine. The major constraints experienced by extension and research system include time constraint for executing extension activities and lack of transportation facilities to make frequent visit to farmer’s field. In case of research system priority for teaching and research mandates of university is the another major constraint. Institutional linkages should be done at regional and state level and formulate joint collaborative programmes through effective resource utilisation from various stakeholders for enhancing farm income and thereby standard of living.EnglishThesis