A.K. Chaturvedani

Perceived constraints among veterinary livestock development assistants while delivering livestock services in Haryana

The present study was conducted to assess different constraints faced by Veterinary Livestock Development Assistants (VLDAs) of Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Haryana while providing livestock services to the farmers of the state. Thirty two independent constraints were taken for the study, which were later classified under nine set of constraints. Asymptotic significance obtained from the Friedman test was 0.0 (p<0.01) with chi-square value of 168.689 and 8 degrees of freedom. Significance value showed, Monte Carlo value was significant at 99 per cent degree of confidence interval and hence, it could be interpreted that there was significant difference among the nine set of constraints. The most severe set of constraints perceived by the respondents was financial followed by situational, technological, motivational, administration and human resource development constraints, policies, system and regulation constraints, social constraints and infrastructural constraints. The study concluded that adequate financial powers should be delegated to VLDAs to deal with the contingent situation at the villages, regular recruitment of VLDAs to fill vacant position, fair provision of awards, incentives, promotion and other emoluments as compared to veterinarians and other officers.

Study on Information Accessibility and Utilization Pattern of backyard poultry rearer in Chhattisgarh.

The present study was conducted to assess the Information Accessibility and Utilization Pattern of tribal backyard poultry in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. A multi-stage random sampling procedure was used to select 120 respondents i.e. 12 respondents per village, selected randomly from the two blocks i.e. Bakawand and Jagdalpur (five villages from each block) in the purposively selected area for the study. A structured interview schedule duly pre-tested and validated was used to elicit information from the respondents. Data collected were analyzed using statistical tools and the results showed that 47.50 percent poultry rearers had medium (6-12) level of interpersonal information utilization, followed by (42.50%) low (0-6) level and (10.00%) high (12-18) level. Whereas for mass media information utilization majority (78.33%) of the respondents had low (0-4) level, followed by (19.17%) medium (4-8) level and (2.50%) had high (12-18) level of information utilization pattern. The mean in case of interpersonal information utilization were 7.11 and mass media information utilization was 2.90. Due to the fact that the tribal backyard poultry rearers preferred to ask the local interpersonal sources regarding the various problems they used to face in poultry management.