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 |
A study was undertaken to assess the adoption level of commercial goat farmers under semi-intensive and intensive systems of management in Tamil Nadu. To this survey, a sample of 120 commercial goat farmers (20 farmers from each district) was selected randomly from 6 districts of Tamil Nadu. Data revealed that, overall 46.67 per cent of the commercial goat farmers had medium level of adoption of improved goat farming practices, followed by high (33.33 %) and low (20.00 %) extent of adoption. Average adoption indices of improved goat farming technologies were 60.71, 64.61, 76.19 and 67.20 for small, medium, large and overall categories of farmers, respectively. Overall adoption index of improve goat husbandry practices by the commercial goat farmers revealed that, housing practices obtained highest adoption index (74.41-I) followed by feeding (67.42-II), health care (66.00-III), breeding (65.33-IV) and general management practices (62.81-V).Multiple linear regression analysis showed that, the factors viz., family income, investment on goat farming, flock size and economic motivation had positive and significant (1 % level) influence on the variability in adoption levels of commercial goat farmers. Education and system of management of goats showed positive and significant (5 % level) towards adoption of commercial goat farmers.
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