Assessment of technological gap of scientific animal husbandry practices in Gaushalas

Abstract

The Gaushalas are essential to maintaining our nation's cow wealth. Its main purpose is to sheltered and serves the needs of stray, weak, unproductive, and non-lactating animals. The gaushalas who raise stray cattles are yet ignorant with scientific management practices. If feeding, breeding, health care and other management practices fit in proper operation, it would be possible to achieve self sustainability. With this view, present study was undertaken with the objective of understanding the level of adoption of scientific practices by the Gaushalas. The study was conducted purposively in Agra division and total of 100 gaushalas were selected randomly from study area. The result findings revealed that highest adoption was found for timely heat detection (97.50%), feeding of colostrum fed to newborn calf (97.50%), timely vaccination of FMD/H.S vaccine in gaushalas (95.50%) and all gaushalas were adopting burial method for disposal off dead animal under four group of management practices viz., breeding, feeding, health care and management respectively. The result of overall adoption of scientific management practices stated that highest adoption was observed for health care practice (72.40%) followed by management practice (65.86%). Further it was found that 55.00 percent of gaushalas were classified as high adopter category followed by medium (29.00%) and low adopter category (16.00%).