Biosecurity measures like, visitors control, feeding management, disease prevention, deworming, isolation, farm, equipment, milking and worker’s sanitation, dairy farm bio-security farm management and disposal of waste are important to maintain and improve animal health, preventing economic losses and protection of public health. Therefore, the study was conducted in Phaltan taluka for documentation of socio-economic profile of dairy farmers and assessment of knowledge and adoption level regarding biosecurity measures. A total of 240 respondents were selected for current research. An interview scheduled was prepared, pretested for assessment of reliability and validity of the schedule. Prepared schedule was subjected 240 respondents of Phaltan taluka. Data were collected codded, tabulated and analyze. Knowledge of biosecurity measures was analyzed with percentage, mean, frequency slandered deviation, correlation and regression. Among total respondents most of the respondents were belonging to medium (68.33%) age groups, had medium (76.25%) family size and medium (36.75%) experience in dairying. (37.91%) had education up to secondary schooling and land holding up to 5 acres with medium (48.75%) herd size. A significant number of dairy farmers had medium extension contacts (66.25%), social participation (64.58%) and source of information (66.25%). 98.75 per cent of the respondents have attended trainings regarding biosecurity. Majority of the dairy farmers had complete knowledge and adoption of different biosecurity measures viz., dairy farm bio-security, feeding management, farm management, milking sanitation disposal of waste, deworming and disease prevention.

Keyword: Knowledge; Biosecurity; Dairy Farmers