A study on Dairy husbandry practices in Navsari of South Gujarat

A field survey was conducted during October 2011 to February 2012 to collect the information on the dairy animal management practices followed by the dairy animal owners of Navsari district of South Gujarat with the objectives to study personal, social and economic characteristics of dairy animal owners, existing dairy husbandry practices, constraints perceived in adoption of improved dairy husbandry practices and knowledge level of dairy animal owners about modern dairy husbandry practices. Ten rural villages were selected from each of Navsari, Jalalpore, Gandevi and Chikhli taluka and from each selected village five respondents were selected randomly, which constituted a total of 200 respondents from rural area. Further, twenty five respondents were selected from urban area of each taluka which constituted a total of 100 respondents. Hence, finally 300 selected respondents were interviewed and the desired information was collected in the questionnaire (schedule). The collected data were tabulated and subjected to various statistical methods to draw meaningful inferences.