Veterinary
World, Vol.2(5): 199-201 RESEARCH
Assessment of knowledge level of
dairy farmers in Nagpur district and the
Co-relation between socio-economic
variables with their training needs
A.P.Patil1, S.H. Gawande2,
M.P.Nande1 and M.R.Gobade1
Department of Veterinary and Animal
Husbandry Extension
Nagpur Veterinary College,
Nagpur-440006,
Maharashtra Agricultural and Fishery
Science University (MAFSU)
The present study was carried out to
assess the knowledge level of dairy farmers in Nagpur district and to find the
co-relation between the socio-economic variables and the training needs. This
study was conducted in 15 villages from 3 talukas of Nagpur district by
personally interviewing 225 dairy farmers. Here, majority of the respondents
(55.11%) had medium level of knowledge followed by the respondents with high
level of knowledge (24.00%) while some of the respondents (20.89%) had low
level of knowledge. The study of co-relation between socio-economic variables
of the respondents showed that variables like education (0.437), herd size
(0.486), annual income (0.445), daily milk production (0.583), daily milk sale
(0.486), social participation (0.500) and the knowledge (0.634) were
significantly and positively co-related with the training needs. Whereas,
variables like age (0.043), family size (0.103) and land holding (0.084) were
found to be positively but non-significantly co-related with the training needs
while, the caste (-0.093) was found to be negatively and non-significantly
co-related with the training needs at 0.05% level of probability.
Keywords: Knowledge level, Co-relation,
Socio-economic variables, Training needs.
1. M.V.Sc.
scholars, 2.
Head of The Department.