Knowledge Level of Dairy Farmers in Operational Area of Krishi Vigyan Kendra about Improved Dairy Farming Practices

Abstract

A B S T R A C T Present investigation was undertaken in operational area of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Banka, Bihar to know the Knowledge level of the dairy farmers with respect to the different component of scientific dairy farming practices by selecting six villages purposively. Fifteen farmers from each village constituting the sample size of 90 dairy farmers were included in the survey. The study reveals that majority of dairy farmers had medium knowledge on different component of scientific dairy farming practices. But, very few dairy farmers had high knowledge about the scientific dairy farming practices which showed that different dairy development agency working in Banka district was not providing adequate knowledge about the improved dairy farming practices among the farmers. The knowledge index of different aspect of scientific dairy farming practices of breeding, feeding, health care and management were 42, 37.84, 39.75 and 41.73%, respectively and overall knowledge index of improved dairy farming practices were 39.63 which indicates poor knowledge level of dairy farmers in the study area.