National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
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 |
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 district 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. An exploratory research design was adopted for the study and multistage random sampling technique was adopted for the study and data were collected using a structured interview schedule. The study revealed that majority (84.44%) of the farmers is practicing grazing along with feeding green fodder and dry fodder as per availability. Majority (68.33%) of them feeding the home made concentrates to animals by making use of available ingredients at their disposal. Majority (66.67%) of the green fodder feeding and dry fodder (89.45%) as such without chaffing and majority (63.33%) of them are not practicing any treatment of fodder method before feeding. Majority (56.67%) of them practiced feeding of concentrates by soaking in the water. Most (57.23%) of farmers were unaware of balanced feeding in buffalo farming. Majority of them feed the balanced ration during milk production and most of them are not practicing mineral mixture feeding. Common salt feeding was commonly practiced by majority and supplementary feeding was done mostly for the lactating animals followed by for heifers and least during late pregnancy.
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