KNOWLEDGE OF DAIRY FARMERS ABOUT SCIENTIFIC DAIRY FARMING PRACTICES

In the changing of world economy, Indian farmers have to compete with farmers of developed countries whose socio-economic conditions are much better. The knowledge of an innovation is prerequisite for adoption. Looking into this, the study was carried out in Anand district on knowledge of 202 dairy farmers towards scientific dairy farming practices. The result indicated that the majority (71.30 per cent) of dairy farmers had overall medium level of knowledge about scientific dairy farming practices. Majority of dairy farmers had medium level of knowledge about breeding practices (72.3 per cent), feeding practices (77.2 per cent), health care practices (75.2 per cent) and management practise (75.2 per cent). Highest level of knowledge about breeding practices with mean score per cent 66.25 was observed among dairy farmers. Out of twelve independent variable eight variable had positive and highly significant correlation with the knowledge level of dairy farmers. It is due to that the dairy farmers were more aware about breeding practices and feeding practices which resulting to increase the production of milk and income.