Constraints Faced by Livestock Owners Regarding Livestock Farming in Jabalpur Division of Madhya Pradesh, India
Sarita Paradkar
Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior (MP), India.
Shobhana Gupta
Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior (MP), India.
Siddharth Namdeo *
Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior (MP), India.
Dileep Kumar Jatav
Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior (MP), India.
Azlan Khan
Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior (MP), India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
A study was conducted to identify the constraints faced by livestock owners in Jabalpur Division of Madhya Pradesh. Through multistage random sampling with a sample size of 240 livestock owners. The data were analyzed by Garrett’s technique. The findings of this study indicated that the major constraints faced by livestock owners as per the Garrett’s average score were low cost of milk as compare to the production (50.90%), lack of credit facilities for purchase of feeds, fodders and mineral mixture (47.50%), low price of milk provided by cooperative societies (46.88%), high cost of veterinary treatment (46.32%), unavailability of green fodder round the year (45.12%), poor conception rate (43.09), non availability of diagnostic facilities (42.54%), lack of A.I. facility (42.48%), unaware of heat symptom (42.00), inaduquate supply of vaccines (41.32%) and non availability of essential medicine (40.94).
Keywords: Constraints, Garrett’s ranking technique, livestock owners, livestock farming, India