Constraints Perceived in Following Dairy Animal Welfare Practices in Jamtara District of Jharkhand

Abstract

The development of welfare assessment schemes involves a difficult balancing of practical constraints against the need for scientific validity and reliability. There are lots of constraints in following proper welfare practices at farmer’s level. In view of above the present study was conducted on Jamtara district of Jharkhand, it has 6 blocks and to have a complete study of whole district, all the 6 blocks were selected. From the selected blocks, two villages (one Peri urban and one rural village) were selected randomly. Data were collected through structured interview schedule. it was observed trends in constraints were as follow, lack of money was the most significant constraints as it was perceived by 95 per cent of dairy owners, second was lack of information (91.66%), lack of availability of Veterinary Doctors (88.33%), lack of feed (82.50%), lack of Government facility (80.83%), and no financial gain in following animal welfare practices perceived by 74.16% respondents. In conclusion, the major constraints experienced by the dairy farmers to follow dairy animal welfare practices were lack of money, lack of information and lack of availability of veterinary doctor in vicinity.