Indian Journal of Animal Research
Year : 2007, Volume : 41, Issue : 1
First page : ( 51) Last page : ( 54)
Print ISSN : 0367-6722.

Knowledge level of commercial poultry farmers*

Raju D. Thammi, Rao B. Sudhakar, Gupta B. Ramesh

College of Veterinary Science, Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad -500 030, India.

*Presented at the XXIII Annual Conference and National Symposium of Indian Poultry ScienceAssociation, held at Hyderabad from 2–4 February, 2005.

Abstract

An ex-post facto research design was adopted to study the knowledge level of commercial poultry farmers and the factors influencing the same. It was revealed from the data collected from 70 commercial poultry farmers (layer + broiler) of Rangareddy district of Andhra Pradesh that majority of the layer and total farmers had high knowledge, while majority of broiler farmers had medium knowledge on poultry production. The factors such as scientific orientation in case of layer farmers; education, economic motivation, computer awareness in case of broiler farmers; poultry farm size, income and computer awareness in case of total farmers, were found to be significantly related to the knowledge level. The step down regression analysis revealed that urban contact and scientific orientation in case of layer farmers; education occupation, rationality in decision making, computer awareness in case of broiler farmers; urban contact, scientific orientation and computer awareness in case of total farmers had accounted for maximum variation in the knowledge level. Hence these factors are to be exploited in increasing the knowledge level of poultry farmers.

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