Empowering dairy farmers: Impact of scientific training on health care and marketing practices

Abstract

Dairy farming in Haryana stands as a cornerstone of the state's agricultural economy, rooted deeply in its cultural heritage and economic fabric. A study was conducted in three Hisar districts of Haryana with sample size of 120 respondents (60 Participants and 60 Non participants) with an objective to measure the impact of scientific dairy farming trainings on knowledge level of dairy farmers in terms of health care and marketing practices. Data were collected through personal interview with the help of pretested structured interview schedule. It was concluded that 55 and 47.50 per cent of the respondents were having medium level of knowledge regarding health care practices and marketing practices respectively. Paricipants were having slightly higher knowledge than non paeticipants. Respondents were having highest, lowest knowledge about ‘knowledge of signs of illness’ and advantage of vaccination (50.67%) among health care practices. In case of marketing practices dairy farmers ranked first to the item ‘knowledge of selling of dung cake or manure’ (100%), least rank to the knowledge about ‘membership of SHG or cooperative’ (33%).Further studies to explore other correlated factors are suggested.