Level of Adoption of Good Management Practices by Dairy Farmers in Haryana

Abstract

India contributes the largest to the world milk production. The main objective of  the study is to investigate the different technologies adopted by dairy farmers in  Haryana. Primary data was collected from 200 dairy farmers from different places in  Haryana state. The study was conducted in Haryana study revealed that among all  the good dairy practices animal health practices was followed by majority of the dairy  farmers and the corresponding mean value was 1.75 and the rank was 1st, followed  by management practices (corresponding mean value 2.02 and rank 2nd), hygiene  milking practices (corresponding mean value 2.12 and rank 3rd), animal wellbeing  (corresponding mean value 2.23 and rank 4th), nutrition (corresponding mean value  2.56 and rank 5th), and environment practices with corresponding mean value 2.57,  were least preferred or we may say least adopted by dairy farmers hence environment  practices was given rank 6th.Poor animal health is one of the principal constraints  to increasing small-scale dairy productivity, as it results in high morbidity and low  production. Overcoming this constraint could significantly improve productivity and  results in real and direct benefits for producers. The IBM SPSS22 software was used  to calculate the mean score of the statements based on Likert 5-point scale.This study  gives us an idea about how we start a dairy farm and what management practices  should be adopted.