Vol. 7, Issue 2 (2019)
Information needs of farm women towards animal husbandry practices
Author(s): Jadeja KM, Kalsariya BN and Jadeja MK
Abstract: Animal Husbandry sector provides large self-employment opportunities. According to that one family member is engaged in looking after the livestock. Women play important role in different animal husbandry practices. Nowadays, information is a basic necessity of everyday life. It was observed that farm women have some misunderstanding or confusion and face some difficulties in keeping their animals. So that, it is important to know the information needs of farm women for animal husbandry practices. Therefore, the study was conducted in Rajkot district of Saurashtra region. From four talukas of Rajkot district, three villages were selected from each talukas. Thus, total 120 respondents were selected from 12 villages for the study. The result of the study revealed that with respect to overall preference of information needs of farm women on improved animal husbandry practices, health practices (17.767 WMS) was the most preferred by rural women (first rank) followed by farm credit (13.958 WMS), marketing practices (12.358 WMS), breeding practices (5.267 WMS), management practices (3.242 WMS), feeding practices (2.175 WMS), profit utilization (2.150 WMS), housing facilities (1.733 WMS), fodder production (1.583 WMS), daily practices (1.100 WMS) and milk products making (0.667 WMS) got second, third, fourth,fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh rank, respectively. In case of level of information needs, majority (73.34 percent) of farm women had medium level of information needs about animal husbandry practices followed by 15.83 percent and 10.83 percent of them had low and high level of information needs, respectively. For augmenting information need of farm women, demonstrations are to be conducted at the village level to educate farmers and farm women about these.
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Jadeja KM, Kalsariya BN, Jadeja MK. Information needs of farm women towards animal husbandry practices. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(2):1613-1616.
