Personal, socio-economic, communication and psychological characteristics of dairy farmers

Abstract

Results showed that, the majority of the respondents belonged to middle aged (53.00 %), educated up to secondary school (50.00 %), (49.00%) had medium family, (78.50 %) belonged to nuclear type family, (33.00 %) possessed small land holding (up to 1.01 to 2.00 ha.), (76.50 %) possessed medium herd size, (79.00 %) possessed discript breeds, (63.00 %) had medium dairy farming experience, (68.50 %) had medium level annual income, (92.50 %) had medium level of sale of milk, (71.50 %) belonged to medium level of scientific orientation, (58.50 %) had medium level of risk preference, (64.50 %) had medium extension contact, (57.00 %) had medium level of economic motivation, (93.50 %) had high level of knowledge and (81.50 %) had medium level of adoption about the modern dairying and animal husbandry practices.