Studies on different Socio-economic profile of farmers and feeding management practices of cattle in Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

The aim of this study to investigate the status of socio profile of the farmers and feeding management practices of cattle in Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh. The data were collected from randomly selected 500 respondents through personal interview using pre-tested structured schedule. The result revealed that that majority of farmers (53.8%) belong to middle age group of 30 to 50 years and that most 69.00 per cent were educated in which metrics, high school, intermediate and graduate respondents included. Most of the 84.40 per cent male farmers were engaged with cattle rearing in the study area and 15.6 per cent female farmers were engaged with cattle rearing. Majority of farmers (66.8%), (26.6%), (26.6%), (80.2%), (72.40%), (83.6%) and (68%) of the respondents belong to other backward caste, medium sized families, nuclear family, marginal farmer category, had small herd size, practicing agriculture+ Animal husbandry and more than half of the total farmers 68 per cent had low economic status with less than 60000 Rs. Majority (78.2%) of respondents practiced both the feeding system followed by (21.8%) stall feeding and (0.0%) grazing of animals in the study area. Majority (80.0%), (67.6%), (60.4%), (76.6%) and (77.6%) of respondents practiced individual type of stall-feeding system, not grown type of fodder production, harvested/ follow fields grazing site, two time of feeding and imbalance type of feeding respectively. Majority (47.6%), (65%), (80.2%), (85.6%), (94%) and (66.6%) practiced self-prepared type of concentrate mixture, soaked concentrate mixture before feeding, did not used common salt, did noy used mineral mixture, did not used hay and silage and extra concentrate fed to pregnant cow last two months of her pregnancy. Majority (62%), (66.4%), (91.2%), (96.4%), (89%) and (79.8%) of the respondents fed 2-7 kg. concentrate, practicing feeding of concentrate during milking time, provided water free access in a day, did not practice poor-quality roughages by urea ammonization and molasses, practiced feeding of dry fodder 2-2.5 kg. per 100 kg of body weight and were practicing feeding of green fodder with quantity less than 20 kg.