A study was undertaken to analyze the institutional network and qualified human resource availability to assess the extent of knowledge and perception of dairy farmers on service delivery systems in purposively selected Vizianagaram, Krishna and Chittoor districts of Andhra Pradesh state. Four villages from each district and 10 dairy farmers from each village were selected through simple random sampling technique, thus to form a sample size of 120. The data collected from respondents revealed that there was surplus number of veterinary institutes viz., 21.66, 41.36 and 1.24 per cent in Vizianagaram, Krishna and Chittoor districts respectively. The farmers had medium level (40.84%) of knowledge and majority (65.83%) of the dairy farmers had perceived that the service delivery systems were appropriate. Sufficient measures may be taken to improve the knowledge of dairy farmers about service delivery systems as well as to improve the quality and accessibility of services to livestock farmers.

Keyword: Service delivery systems; Institutional network; Human resource availability; Perception; Dairy farmers;