Effectiveness of Scientific Trainings on Goat Farming in Terms of Adoption Behaviour

AbstractIn order to evaluate the trainings imparted on goat farming with an emphasis on recommended goat farming practices and technologies, 120 farmers who underwent trainings offered by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Muktsar were interviewed after six months of training with a pretested interview schedule. The study found that majority (55.83%) belonged to 31-45 yr age group. Also 37.50 per cent respondents were educated upto high school only. As far as annual income was concerned, majority (95.83%) had annual income upto 6 lakh. About 23.33 per cent were landless. All those who adopted goat enterprise, adopted vaccination, deworming and identification of goats fully, however only 10 per cent respondents adopted debudding of kids as they do not give much importance to this. Mean adoption score was highest for high education category (35.29a ± 7.04). Training and capacity building are therefore, must to increase knowledge and awareness, however adoption behavior is dependent on many other factors like societal perception.