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Abstract
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 (R2) was found 0.849. The variance ratio (125.85) for adjusted R2 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.
Acknowledgement
The authors are thankful to the Director, Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) and Head of Extension Division, IVRI, Izatnagar for providing necessary facility to carry out the study.