A REPORT ON STUDY ON EXTEND OF KNOWLEDGE ON LIVESTOCK TECHNOLOGIES OF RURAL LIVESTOCK KEEPERS IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF RANGPUR DISTRICT

Abstract

The study was undertaken to describe the selected general characteristics of the livestock keepers such as: age, education, farm size, annual income, annual livestock production and extension media contact etc. For achieving the objectives, a sample of 30 livestock keepers were selected randomly covering two villages at Mithapuqur Upazilla in Rangpur district of Bangladesh.

The study reveals that knowledge on housing, feeds and feeding and breeding of livestock rearer had significant positive correlation with education, income, farm size and extension media contact. This indicates that knowledge of livestock keepers increased with their education of farm size, income, and extension media contact. Knowledge had negative significant correlation with age .This means with the increase of age knowledge will decrease. Livestock production had no significant relationship with their knowledge on housing, feeds and feeding and breeding of livestock.

The interviewee from whom data were collected the existing livestock knowledge have most primary level education. About one fourth of them were illiterate. So, they showed below standard level knowledge of livestock production.

Although the farm size and income was satisfactory but these did not shown any significant relationship with acquiring knowledge. This indicated that without proper knowledge they did not utilize their wealth/ property properly on livestock production purposes. In this study also identified some problems and their remedial measures for betterment of rural livestock enterprises.