Role of land holding patterns for adoption of dairy husbandry practices in rural areas of bareilly district in india

Abstract

To find out the effect of various land holdings on dairy husbandry practices, door-to-door survey was conducted to collect information on landholdings and dairy husbandry practices in rural areas of Bareilly district. Out of 1932 dairy owners, majority (55.12%) had marginal land holding. Adoption scores of management practices increased from 53.17 to 60.46 and management indexes from 44.19 to 50.38 with increasing land holdings. R2 value was higher when only one practice was taken at a time and 48.6% of the variation in total practices score was explained by health practices score. Prediction equation also showed that with every one unit increase in the score of health practices, there would be an increase of 2.85 scores in total practices score. It can be concluded that the land holding patterns of the farmers influenced the various management practices of cattle and buffaloes under rural areas. © GSP, India.