Adoption of health technologies among goat farmers in different agro-climatic zones of Bihar

摘要

The extent of adoption of health technologies by goat farmers as preventive and curative measures was assessed in all three different agro-climatic zones of Bihar by selecting two districts from each zone, with the sample of 240 farmers (80 from each zone). The results indicated that overall adoption behaviour (65.42%) was partial in nature. Vaccination was partially adopted by 26.30% farmers, whereas it was 71% for internal parasite remedies, 37.50% for external parasitic remedies, 40% for use of disinfectants, and 50.42% for veterinarian's services. The coefficient of multiple determinations (R-2) was found 0.849. The variance ratio (125.85) for adjusted R-2 was found significant (p 0.01). The study indicates that farmers prefer to adopt therapeutic interventions as compared to preventive interventions to control goat diseases.