Knowledge of Farmers Regarding Pratapdhan Breed of Backyard Poultry Farming under AICRP in Udaipur District of Rajasthan, India
Meenu *
Department of Agricultural Extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India.
Ananda K R
Department of Agricultural Extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India.
Vikas Kumar Meena
Department of Extension Education, RCA (MPUAT), Udaipur (Rajasthan), India.
Ankit Pal
Department of Agricultural Extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India.
Preeti Y H
Department of Extension Education, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The study regarding knowledge level of farmers about Pratapdhan breed of backyard poultry popularization under AICRP was conducted in Udaipur district of Rajasthan. It was observed that out of the 120 respondents, 69.17 per cent of the farmers had medium level of knowledge about poultry management practices, followed, 16.67 and 14.17 per cent of the beneficiary farmers had low and high level of knowledge, respectively.
Among the respondents from Girwa tehsil, the majority, 75.00 per cent of farmers, had a medium level of knowledge, while Gogunda's farmers, 59.09 per cent farmers had a medium level of knowledge. The findings were also supported by a calculated ‘Z’ test value, 3.233 was found to be greater than the tabulated value, which is statistically significant at a 1 per cent level of significance which showing the significant difference between the knowledge level of Girwa and Gogunda tehsils' respondents about Pratapdhan breed under backyard poultry.
Keywords: Poultry farming, Pratapdhan breed, backyard poultry, knowledge level, rural development