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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
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 2.5 acres) farmers, the fraction of marginal, small landholders and landless was 32, 30 and 26% respectively. It was observed that 47% farming families consume boiled milk, 38% consume raw milk and 16% consume both raw and boiled milk. The pattern of animal drinking watering provision system was studied. In the study watering of animal’s percentage was studied as co- manual and own. It was found that 56 were Co-manual, 41 own and 3 own and co-manual type. More than half the fraction (57%) farmers preferred Stall feeding while 43% followed grazing. For breeding animals, both natural (41 per cent) and artificial insemination method (59 per cent) were followed.