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: Received: 9 July 2023 / Approved: 10 July 2023 / Online: 10 July 2023 (10:34:13 CEST)
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D, T.; M, J. Modelling the Factors Affecting the Adoption of Compound Feed in Dairy Animal Feeding. Preprints2023, 2023070592. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0592.v1
D, T.; M, J. Modelling the Factors Affecting the Adoption of Compound Feed in Dairy Animal Feeding. Preprints 2023, 2023070592. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0592.v1
D, T.; M, J. Modelling the Factors Affecting the Adoption of Compound Feed in Dairy Animal Feeding. Preprints2023, 2023070592. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0592.v1
APA Style
D, T., & M, J. (2023). Modelling the Factors Affecting the Adoption of Compound Feed in Dairy Animal Feeding. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0592.v1
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D, T. and Jothilakshmi M. 2023 "Modelling the Factors Affecting the Adoption of Compound Feed in Dairy Animal Feeding" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0592.v1
Abstract
Smallholder dairying engages around 70 to 80 million rural households who are mostly landless, small and marginal farmers. These farmers face challenges in terms of adoption of balanced feeding practices including inclusion of compound feed in animal feeding. This necessitates to understand the socio-economic factors that are influencing the adoption of compound feed. The study found that 51% of dairying households adopted compound feed in animal feeding. The adopters and non-adopters of compound feed differed (P< 0.01) in terms of land holding, family educational status, breeds owned, membership status in farmer’s collectives, fodder adoption, area under fodder, access to grazing resources, availability of crop residues, milk production and milk marketing opportunities. Furthermore, users and non-users of compound feed had significant difference (P< 0.05) in extension agency contact, mass media contact, attitude towards dairying and gender participation in farming. The logit regression model explained the variance in adoption to 30%. Further it indicated the role of selective socio-economic characters, farming situations, feeding and marketing practices in adoption of compound feed. In specific membership in farmer’s collectives, marketing opportunity, milk production, farm men participation, family education status, grazing resources and attitude towards dairying has greatly influenced the adoption behaviour of compound feed in positive direction. Added, households with high experience, cultivating fodder and having access to crop residues tend to influence the adoption decision negatively. The research observed that farmers tend to use compound feed for increasing productivity in areas of better markets and there exists trade-offs between milk market opportunities, access to cheaper roughages and usage of compound feed.
Biology and Life Sciences, Animal Science, Veterinary Science and Zoology
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