Abstract
Availability of veterinary services is very important for development of livestock sector in India. In many locations apart from state veterinary services other veterinary services are also available and the veterinary service users have the choice available with them regarding the service providers. The preference of service providers depend upon the location, distance, livestock holding and capacity to pay and quality of services. A study was conducted among the livestock owners of Sangli district in Maharastra to assess the preference of the livestock owners towards a particular veterinary service provider. Majority of large farmers preferred state veterinary services and cooperative veterinary services where it had strong presence. Cooperative veterinary service can be a good alternative to the state veterinary services and the private veterinary service providers are still not preferred in the rural area.
Highlights
Animal health service delivery system is an abstraction which is used to describe the way in which knowledge, skill and other resources related to animal health are organized within an economy for the delivery of services to animals and their keepers
The private practitioners reach to remote areas to give veterinary service, but majority of large farmers (42%) preferred veterinary services provided by the dairy cooperative as they had large livestock population and it was mandatory in the part of the dairy cooperative to give best veterinary service to their member farmers
In study area no respondent was approached for local healer to treat the animal here it shows that there was availability of veterinary service providers in study area
Summary
Animal health service delivery system is an abstraction which is used to describe the way in which knowledge, skill and other resources related to animal health are organized within an economy for the delivery of services to animals and their keepers. They further stated that the purpose of animal health services delivery system is to optimize the use of resources and improve the welfare of the animals and humans by reducing diseases (Mlangwa and Kisauzi, 1994). It is timely to document what livestock producers look for in service delivery, and how they evaluate the organizations that deliver services
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