Year: 2026 | Month: February | Volume 16 | Issue 1

Assessment of Adoptive Breeding Practices by Dairy Farmers in District Kanpur Dehat of Uttar Pradesh

Narendra Kumar* and Ramjee Gupta
DOI:10.30954/2277-940X.01.2026.6

Abstract:

The study was carried out on adoption of breeding management practices of dairy animals, reared by 200 Milk Farmers viz: villages of the Maitha, Akbarpur and Derapur and Rasulabad blocks of Kanpur Dehat, district which is located in central plane zone of Uttar Pradesh. Study conducted on ten parameters of adoptive breeding management practices by cattle farmers in which among the cattle rearing 33% farmers kept descript buffaloes, 31.50% farmers heat detected through mucus discharge and bellowing, 60% farmers adopted time of insemination within 12-18 hrs., 51.50 % farmers practice of adopting artificial insemination,65.50% farmers diagnosed the pregnancy by experienced person, 60.00% farmers adopted calving treatment by experienced person, 84.00 % farmers take precautions for treatments of anoestrus, 40.50% farmers practiced to treatment of expulsion of placenta, 43.50% farmers adopted further breading after calving in more than five months and 82.50 farmers adopted the duration of calving interval more than fifteen months. The results from these parameters regarding method of breeding time of insemination after heat detection, type of mating, treatment for placenta expulsion, breeding services after calving, these parameters showed the significant relationship in study area, while breeds of animals, sign of stress/heat, pregnancy diagnosis, treatment for calving, treatments for anoestrus and calving intervals these were showed the non-significant relationship in the district.

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