Effect of Anna Pratha Practice in Livestock Management in Bundelkhand Region

Abstract

Thesis Title: "Effect of Anna Pratha practice in Livestock Management in Bundelldtand region" India has a great heritage of bovine keeping. Bovine availability in the country was due to her intrinsic importance in supplying milk, manure and motive force for the country's agricultural economy. The present study was conducted to anna pratha management practices of livestocks in two Block, six villages and total 360 respondents, in Budelkhand region of central India. The total daily milk yield per households almost increased with the increase in herd size. While milk product remains almost constant with the farm size. The values of regression coefficient of fodder cost were positive and highly significant (p > 0.0 I) for all the categories of farmers except medium category. The regression coefficient of mineral mixture was positive and statically significant for medium farmers. In case of large farmers, labour cost was found to be positive and significant indicating there by the importance of better management by employing more manpower in increasing the net return fi·om dairy enterprise. The overall regression coefficient of herd size was positive and found highly significant for medium and large farmers. This indicated that most of the farmers in the study area had the herd size below the optimum size. There is a scope for increasing the milch animals to enhance their net income. Green fodder fe~ding is practiced by only 27.47 per cent farmers the percentage of farmers preferred straw feeding was the highest (31.62%). About onefourth, of the farmers could not feed plenty of green fodder as they did not grow sufficient fodder due to cereal crop pressure on land and it was difficult to procure it from outside. Most of the farmers (92.50 %) did not provide concentrate to their animals. However 7.5 per cent of farmers provide concentrate, dry concentrate and green fodder plus concentrate was observed in 15.67, 4.12 and 2.50 per cent of the sample households. The I!JOSt common source of water used by the sample households was pumping set/hand pumps plus water pond/ditches plus water works depending on the season, time and availability of manpower. While a small number of farmers was dependents upon johar for drinking water in the landless and small farmer's categories of the sample households. About 75.26 per cent of the farmers were offering water in taslalbuckets to their animals followed by 19.59 per cent farmers in the old. drums by the sample households. It was conceded from the variation that remaining differences was contributed by other managemental factors and dry days, lactation length, etc. of milch animal.