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Abstract
Background: Agricultural development programs in India are crucial for promoting modern animal husbandry practices, enhancing livestock productivity, increasing rural incomes and ensuring food security. However, barriers such as lack of awareness, limited access to quality inputs, feed and veterinary services financial constraints, cultural beliefsand infrastructure deficiencies hinder the adoption for many smallholder farmers of these practices. So in this context, an attempt to assess the effectiveness of the farmer FIRST programme (FFP). Methods: Present study was conducted in the deliberately chosen districts of Karnal and Hisar, in the state of Haryana during 2018-2019. A total of 240 farmers, using random sampling, 120 farmers from each district were chosen, 60 farmers from each of the adopted and non-adopted villages, who were the beneficiary and non-beneficiary of FFP and the same was implemented by NDRI, Karnal and CCSHAU, Hisar. Result: The effect of the programme was assessed, which revealed that in the adopted village, maximum adoption was recorded with respective artificial insemination (A.I.) practices (2.97), followed by feeding concentrate mixture to animals based on milk production (2.76), providing adequate open space to the animal (2.84), treatment for infertility, repeat breeding, anestrus cases by the veterinarian (2.91), clean milking practices (3.0). The study revealed significant differences in farmers’ adoption of advised animal husbandry practices, including breeding, reproduction, feeding, health careand overall animal practices, between adopted and non-adopted villages. The study recommends that the government expand the program’s scope to enhance livestock farming and improve the socio-economic conditions of the farmer’s community.
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