Dairying is becoming a source of opportunity for farmers and is acting as an instrument for social and economic development. India is probably the only country among all the tropical countries in the world which had a steady increase in milk production and emerged as the largest milk producer in world. The farmers need a vast variety of information which is available in the form of communication media like written, visual, audio and audio-visual. But the most preferred information will be in local language which is effective in understanding by illiterate as well as by literate farmers. The present study was planned to study the symbolic adoption of improved dairy farming practices (IDFPs) through Multimedia Module in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu. Ninety respondent were identified from s ix randomly selected villages. The respondent were exposed to prepared multimedia DVD module and before – after treatment without control group research design was used. The study revealed that majority (55.56%) of the respondents belonged to young age group having marginal land holding. The herd size of dairy farmer’s state that about 43 per cent of respondents possessed small and medium herd size with mean milk production was as 12.44 liters per day. The result state that p rogressive farmers, Friend and Family members were most important localite channels to update the knowledge of IDFPs. The symbolic adoption of various breeding practices indicate that maximum percentage (88.90%) of dairy farmers decided to adopt the practice of artificial insemination. While 72.00 and 74.40 per cent of dairy farmers decided to adopt practice of maintaining service period after calving and pregnancy diagnosis by veterinary doctor. The result shows that after exposure to IDFPs 60.00, 76.70 and 82.20 per cent dairy farmers shown willingness to adopt the practice of balance feeding, timely vaccination and isolation of sick animals. The practice of feeding colostrum to the new born calf within 24 hours after birth and cleaning the shed was symbolically adopted by 91.10 and 92.20 per cent dairy farmers of IDFPs.