Buffalo farmer

Dairy farming is one of the important activities among the rural farmers. It provides sustainable income and reduces unemployment to a large number of the rural poor. The study was conducted in Bidar disstrict of Karnataka state and is purposively selected for the study since it has got predominant buffalo based dairy production system. The main focus of the study was to assess the feeding and nutritional management of buffaloes. Bidar and Humnabad taluks were randomly selected for the study. A total of 180 buffalo farmers were selected for the study.

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The present investigation was undertaken to know the various management practices adopted by buffalo owners. A sample of 200 farmers was classified into three categorized viz., small, medium and large based on the land holdings, in Katol tahsil.

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The present study was carried out in Haryana, farmers with at least one adult female buffalo were selected randomly to arrive at a total sample size of 120 farmers. An ex-post facto research design was used in the present study.

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A purposive study was conducted on 300 Nili Ravi buffalo farmers selected from four agroclimatic zones of Punjab. The data was collected by personal interview cum questionnaire schedule consisting the feeding practices followed by the farmers. Data revealed that Majority (86.33%) of the farmers were doing group feeding and only (13.67%) of the farmers were doing individual feeding.

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There is large scope to increase milk production of milch animals because they are poorly maintained on small farms. Adequate management, feedings, health care practices, and improved breeds are not available to marginal and small farmers.

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Uterine torsion is one of the common obstetrical problems encountered in buffaloes, if not treated properly may lead to death of the fetus subsequently the dam causing economic loss to the farmers. The occurrences of uterine torsion in buffaloes in relation to species, breed, parity, season, stage of gestation, side of torsion, site of torsion, degree of uterine torsion, duration of uterine torsion, fetal presentation, position and posture, sex of the fetus, livability of the fetus, survivability of the dam following detorsion, predisposing factors and etiological factors were reviewed.

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In India more than 50% of the total cultivated area is still being managed by using draught animals. With the modernization of agriculture, the use of tractors has increased but draught animals continue to be used on Indian farms. This mainly due to small land holdings and hill agriculture (G. Singh), India possessed the finest breeds of draught animals. Bullocks, buffaloes and camels are the major draught animals for field operations. Horses, mules, donkeys, yak and mithun are the pack animals for transport.

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Milk fever is the common disease and one among the important metabolic disorder in lactating dairy animals. It is an afebrile hypocalcaemic disease of cattle usually associated with immediately after parturition and initiation of lactation. Milk fever is a metabolic disease occurring in dairy animals during parturient period and management is economically most important, as it results in not only reduction in milk production but also loss of animals.

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Study was carried out in Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh involving 120 buffalo owners scattered in eight villages of two Tehsil. The farmers were further categorized into three groups viz., small (< 2 adult buffaloes), medium (> 2 and < 5 adult bufalloes) and large (> 5 adult buffaloes) householders. Data pertaining to various aspects of housing and feeding practices were collected through a pre- tested questionnaire.

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The livestock survey of Jaffrabadi buffalo conducted in five districts of Saurashtra region of Gujrat state. The data collected from 1045 farmers through face to face interview from Amreli, Rajkot, Junagadh, Bhavnagar and Girsomnath districts as per farmer’s population 57, 21, 12, 6 and 4 %respectively. The 50% of total farmers were practising Agricultural farming as their main occupation, the percentage fraction of farmers involved in other activities as main occupation were 31in Dairying, 12 in working as labour and 7 in service. According to land distribution, 11% were large (above 2.

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The study was conducted during 2015-16 in Bundi district of Rajasthan to assess the reproductive performance of buffaloes. A multi-stage sampling design was used to select the 180 sample households. The selected respondent farmers were interviewed personally using a well structured and pre-tested interview schedule. The results of the study indicate poor reproductive performance of buffaloes. Further, anestrous and repeat breeding were the most prevalent reproductive disorders in buffaloes in the study area.

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A field study was undertaken to find out the shelter management practices followed by the farmers of Patan district of North Gujarat region. Five talukas were randomly selected for the study viz., Patan, Sidhpur, Chanasma, Harij and Santalpur. Three villages were selected from each taluka and from each village 10 respondents who reared buffalo either alone or mixed with cattle were selected by using a multistage random sampling technique. The analyses revealed that majority (58.00%) of the respondents were from the old age group (above 45 yrs.).

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The present study was conducted to ascertain the socio economic personal antecedents of the dairy farmers of Jaipur district of Rajasthan. There are total thirteen tehsils in Jaipur district, out of which four tehsils Viratnagar, Shahpura, Chmou and Phulera were randomly selected. Five villages from each tehsil were also randomly selected. For selection of respondent’s twelve farmers who possess at least 5 milch (dairy) animals either cattle or buffalo and both practicing dairy farming were selected randomly from each village as respondents for the study.

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The present investigation was carried out to study the feeding and housing patterns adopted by buffaloes keepers in Junagadh and Porbandar districts of Gujarat State. A random sample of 300 buffalo owners were selected from three talukas of Junagadh and two talukas of Porbandar district. Majority of buffalo owners (55.67%) had animal shed located inside dwelling house with kuccha slopped floor (83.67%). Most of buffalo owners reduced heat stress in buffaloes by splashing of water and 71% farmers adopted both stall feeding and grazing to their buffalo.

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The training can be more effective and significant when analysis of training needs prior to the beginning of training programmes and imparting knowledge according to the needs of the farmers. The present study was conducted in the Madhepura District of Bihar with the purpose of identifying training needs of buffalo farmers. Seven different farming practices were undertaken for study as farmers training needs. Under each major component, specific and relevant training need items were collected and systematically incorporated into the structured interview schedule.

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A field survey was conducted in and around R.S. Pura tehsil of Jammu district of Jammu and Kashmir, India and data was collected from 120 respondents belonging to Gujjar community through specially designed questionnaire by random sampling method. The study revealed that majority of farmers fed concentrate and roughages to their animals and depend on bore wells as a source of drinking water to their buffaloes. About 63.34% respondents fed colostrum within 1h of birth of calves followed by 25.83% fed between 1- 3h and 13% fed after 3h of birth of calves.

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The present study was conducted in higher cattle concentrated Kamarpara, Kukurmara and Mankachar villages falling in the Indo Bangladesh International Border areas out of the total of fifteen such villages in Dhubri District, Assam. Thirty six farmers each having at least two yielding cattle/buffaloes in those villages was selected randomly making the total sample size 108. Socio- personal, communicational, economic and psychological and managerial data were collected on a reliable (r=0.93) and valid (content validated) interview schedule specially prepared for this purpose.

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A survey conducted to know the socio economic profile of buffalo farmers in Guntur and Prakasam of Andhra Pradesh. A total of 144 respondents were selected through multi stage random sampling and data collected with structured interview schedule. It was observed that buffalo farming is an occupation of young respondents with no formal schooling and small land owners belonging to all communities. It contributes 1/3rd of their family income. The average income obtained from buffalo farming was Rs. 75,236.

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An one ha model of integrated farming system initiated during 2015 at Agricultural Research Institute, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Telangana. One hectare area divided into 5 blocks viz. involving rice-sweet corn- dhaincha on 0.24 ha, banana plantation with on 0.15 ha, brinjal-tomato in 0.2 ha for vegetable production, Green fodder crops were raised on 0.35 ha. 50 saplings of coconut were planted all around the bunds. Field beans are also grown on the bunds between the trees of coconut. Vines of bitter gourd, bottle gourd and cucumber were trained on a pandal of 0.04ha.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relation of various management and feeding practices with the occurrence of uterine torsion in buffaloes. Five hundred and seven dairy buffalo farmers from 20 districts of Punjab state were surveyed using a questionnaire based on management practices in relation to occurrence of uterine torsion.

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