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Effect of Personality Traits of Dairy Farmers on Recommended Buffalo Husbandry Practices

Karamjit Sharma and S. P. Singh

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The study was conducted on 240 buffalo owners selected from eight villages of Haryana State to assess the effect of various independent variables on knowledge, adoption, training needs and constraints affecting adoption of recommended buffalo husbandry practices. Path analysis revealed that economic motivation had maximum direct effect on knowledge level of buffalo owners about recommended buffalo husbandry practices followed by extension contact, education and caste. Indirect effect was also explained by herd size, education, caste, extension contact, mass media exposure and their attitude towards recommended buffalo husbandry practices. Opinion leadership, risk orientation and extension contact had shown maximum direct positive effect towards adoption of recommended buffalo husbandry practices in case of landless respondents. However caste, risk orientation, economic motivation and herd size explained their direct effect on adoption of recommended buffalo husbandry practices in case of the buffalo owners having upto 2 ha of land. More or less similar observations were also noticed in case of the farmers having more than 2 ha of land with regard to their adoption level. The study further indicated that in case of training needs of the respondents about recommended buffalo husbandry practices, extension contact, mass media exposure and their attitude had maximum direct positive effect in descending order in respect of landless buffalo owners. Almost similar results were seen in case of the farmers having 2 ha of land while in case of the dairy farmers having more than 2 ha of land, risk orientation, socio-economic status, economic motivation, age and education reflected their direct effect on training needs regarding recommended buffalo husbandry practices. Moreover, opinion leadership and mass media exposure were found to have maximum direct positive effect on constraints perceived by the landless buffalo owners whereas economic motivation, risk orientation, extension content, socio economic status, education and caste of the farmers having more than 2 ha of land had positive direct effect on the overall constraints as perceived by these respondents regarding in adoption of recommended buffalo husbandry practices

Keyword: Knowledge, Adoption, cons

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