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 in Haryana, farmers with at least one adult female buffalo were selected randomly to arrive at a total sample size of 120 farmers. An ex-post facto research design was used in the present study. The responses for information needs of the buffalo farmers were retrieved on three point scale viz. most needed, needed and not needed. More than half (56.70%) of the respondents fell in the medium information needs category while 22.50 per cent had low information need whereas 20.80 per cent were in high information needs category. The most important perceived information needs of the farmers included feeding, breeding, healthcare, market, farm credit and management. Information needs regarding feeding was ranked first as revealed by mean score (2.97) followed by breeding (2.82), healthcare (2.81), market (2.70), farm credit (2.49) and management (2.09) and were ranked second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.
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