SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS AND EXTENSION INTERVENTION OF LIVESTOCK FARMER IN JALANDHAR DISTRICT OF PUNJAB, INDIA

that the livestock sector provides almost 90% of employment and mo re than 95% offamily incomes in Kenya’s ASALs (FAO 2004).Livestock plays multiple roles in the lifestyle of pastoralist s in Kenya, notably as liveli-hood sources, socio-[r]

Furthermore, the fact that many MSM may hide their sexuality from signicant others and possibly healthcare workers, may result in their missing out from the available preventive services.Designing and providing prevention messages and other programmes in an enviro[r]

Ennore Industrial complex as one of the problem area in the country. There is an immediate danger of breaking the homeostasis due to the over loading pollutants spewing out continuously from Manali industrial complexes and Ennore Thermal Power stations (SPIC-SMO, 1990). E[r]

Ex-post facto research design was followed for carrying out the study in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Sample comprised of 120 farmers selected randomly from four randomly selected mandals of Mahaboobnagar district which was a purposive selection. Age, education, farm size, farming experience, annual[r]

The present study to access the Impact of watershed on the level of economics with especial reference to the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries for the purpose two districts from the Nagaland state viz., Dimapur and Zunheboto were selected purposely due to the maximum number of area covered under w[r]

A participatory empowerment model was developed for dairy farmers on the basis of various identified factors in Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu, India. This farmer’s participation model consists of steps like, analyses of resource availability, feeding pattern appraisal and micro level approach with I[r]

In modern agriculture, in view of the rapid progress in newer techniques of cultivation and availability of several options of crop management practices, reliance exclusively on chemical control for insect pest management has not yielded desired returns for the farmer. Integrated pest Management (IP[r]

for the livestock keepers. However, since the compensation scheme that may offset some of the costs are always lacking in Tanzania, negative attitudes towards carnivores may have developed among farmers, which have resulted in retaliatory killing practices of carni[r]

measured on a nine-point ordinal scale ranging fromelementary school to c ompleted university. Low socio-eco nomic status was defined as lower vocational or pri-mary school. Current smoking status was assessed byasking the respondents whether they had smoked thelast seven day (yes/no). Partic[r]

Dairy farming in India plays a vital role in livelihood security of the dairy farmers. The factors which are major hurdles in increasing farmers income are low productivity of indigenous breeds, inadequate knowledge about balanced feeding and low conception rate through artificial insemination. The[r]

multidimensional nature of Quality of Life (QOL) in an individual. India has acquired the label of “an aging nation”with 7.7 percent of its population being more than 60 years old. Changes in population structure will have severalimplications for health, [r]

education) and health practices of the elderly persons in Osun State, Nigeria. The study was conducted in 10 purposively selected traditional core health districts in Ife/Ijesa zone of Osun State, Nigeria. Three hundred elderly 60 years and above were[r]

The study revealed that majority (68.75%) of the farmers belonged to middle age group, had medium annual income (58.75%), belong to medium social cohesiveness(81.25%), had medium mass medium access (72.50%), had medium knowledge on climate change(83.75%). Having more percentage of respondents on med[r]

of Balsamodendron berryi which helps secure the animals grazing inside the field. Thisfrees the farmers from having to tend the animals throughout the day, and the farmersuse their time productively in other vocations. The innovation lies in recognizing theuse of t[r]

losis affects the most productive age group and on the average 3 - 4 months of work time are lost if an adult has tuberculosis, resulting in a loss of about 30% of annual household in name (Khatri and Frieden, 2000). The study also found that 56.5%