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 randomly selected Karnal, Kurukshetra and Hisar districts of Haryana. A total of 120 buffalo farmers form part of the study. An ex post facto research design was used for the study. It was found that 68.30, 16.70 and 15.00 per cent respondents belonged to middle, old and young age group, respectively. An overwhelming majority (93.30%) of the respondents who practiced buffalo farming were male, followed by only 6.70 per cent females. More than half (60.80%) of the buffalo farmers were from general caste followed by 32.50 and 6.70 per cent from backward caste and schedule caste, respectively. Around half (51.70%) of the respondents’ belonged to joint families followed by 48.30 per cent nuclear families. A majority (76.70 %) of the respondents were having small size herds followed by 20.00 per cent medium and only 3.30 per cent possessed large size herds. It was found that 60.80, 34.20 and 5.00 per cent farmers belonged to low, medium and high income groups.
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