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 conducted in two agro-climatic zones; Central plain zone (CPZ) and Western plain zone (WPZ) of Punjab having maximum number of dairy animals according to 20th livestock census. The data were collected by using well structured interview schedule from 300 dairy farmers of CPZ and WPZ. Garrett’s ranking technique was used to prioritize the different sets of constraints in terms of their mean score. The study revealed that “lack of training institute in the research locale (63.60)”, lack of knowledge about schemes of A.H department (59.64) and “absence of milk testing facilities in study area (57.00)” were the major infrastructural constraints in terms of severity. Under technical constraints, “lack of knowledge about value addition of milk and milk by-products (63.97)”, “lack of knowledge about scientific housing practices (57.82)” and “lack of regular technical guidance facilities from experts (57.49)” were the major constraints. “Lack of credit facilities (62.21)”, “high cost land (57.90)” and “high cost of feed and fodder (53.50)” were the severe economic constraints as perceived by dairy farmers. Under marketing constraints “difficulty in marketing of milk and milk products (60.03)”, “lack of knowledge about marketing strategies (57.94)” and “distress sale due to perishable nature of milk and milk products (54.90)” were major constraints in terms of their severity. “Lack of know about various mobile applications related to scientific dairy farm practices (62.84)”, “very few information of livestock management in daily newspaper/daily samachar (59.67”); “ambulatory service facility is not available in the area (56.52)” and “not getting the real information about scheme/programs at field level” (53.70) were major communicational constraints as perceived by dairy farmers. Hence, there is a need to remove these constraints on priority basis so that farmers can run their dairy enterprise in a smooth and better ways.
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