National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was carried out to know the major constraints of animal husbandry farmers in drought prone western Odisha. A total of 72 respondents engaged in animal husbandry as primary occupation selected randomly from 3 district of western Odisha namely Bolangir, Kalahandi and Nuapad. The sampling method in selection of respondents became a stratified random sampling. During the study respondents stated that drought caused decrease in productivity of animals, affected Marketing facility for livestock and livestock products, threatened household food security as there was low production from animals were the 1st three constraints in animal husbandry. According to the farmers interacted regarding animal husbandry constraints the rank order of the constraints were in the order of drought caused decrease in productivity of animals, affected marketing facility for livestock and livestock products, threatened household food security, distress sale of livestock and livestock products, drought affected cost of feed, diseases in animals which resulted in low production, drought affected schooling of children, reduction in household income, affected veterinary service delivery system, affected the social and psychological well being. But majority of the animal husbandry respondents stated that drought is not a severe threat to the animal husbandry farmers as they are not dependant on climatic variations.
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