Correlation Analysis of Socio-Economic Variables with Adoption of Buffalo Husbandry Practices

Abstract

This study was conducted to ascertain the extent of adoption of improved buffalo husbandry practices and its relationship with the socio-economic characteristics of the dairy farmers in

Information Source Utilization by Livestock and Poultry Farmers of Uttar Pradesh

“…This paves the path towards better adoption of new technologies as suggested by Monikha et al, (2021) that Expert system helped farmers to take decisions to adopt different management practices. As far as extension agency contact is concerned, the results are in agreement with the previous findings of Roy et al, (2015) and Sachan et al, (2018) whereas it was reported that majority of the respondents were having medium level of personal cosmopolite channel usage. The results are also in partial agreement with the study of Shah et al, (2021) who reported that majority of the respondents from two districts (Shopian and Baramulla) had medium level extension agency contact whereas the respondents of Budgam had low level of extension agency contact.…”

“…The outcomes of the study are in line with Sachan et al, (2018) who reported that mass media utilization of majority of the dairy farmers was medium. As far as ICT utilization is concerned, the results are in support of the reports of Ndag et al, (2008) who reported that the ICT utilization among majority of respondents from North-central Nigeria was moderate to high.…”