Abstract
The present study was undertaken to find out the bottlenecks in adoption of recommended feeding practices by dairy farmers in district Kapurthala. The data were collected through a questionnaire from a total of 200 dairy farmers. It was observed that 27.5 and 39.5 per cent of farmers were having animals between 1 to 5 and 6 to 10, respectively. On the other, 46.5 per cent farmers were keeping less than 5 lactating animals and 28 per cent were possessing between 6 to 10 lactating animals. Only 5.5 per cent farmers were keeping lactating animals more than 20. The present study revealed that poor knowledge about the nutritive value of feed ingredients (86.5%), high cost of raw feed ingredients (28%), shortage of skilled and committed labour (32.5%) were found to be major bottlenecks regarding adoption of cattle feed formulation technology at the dairy farm. Lack of awareness among dairy farmers (82%), regarding role of mineral mixture and its use followed by its non availability in villages (90%) were the main limitations in its adoption. Non availability of urea molasses mineral block (UMMB, 95%), Poor infrastructure available for milking lactating animals (92.5%), no knowledge about fodder preservation (95%) and lack of knowledge about disease symptoms (90%) were considered the major problems faced by the dairy farmers in the adoption of feeding practices in the district.
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