Abstract

                                This study on dairy farming knowledge conducted in the villages of Karnal indicated tha in all areas of dairy farming except in fodder production, the level of knowledge was signifi cantly high in trained farmers than untrained ones. Further the study revealed that the sale. cted Socio-psychological, communication and economic characteristics of the farmers namely farm size, education herd size, milk production, wheat production, communication exposure ecnomic motivation and risk orientation had positive and significant correlation with the dairy farming knowledge, Out of these eight iudependent variables, communication ex- posure, risk orientation and wheat production explained 50 per cent of the total variation in the dairy farming knowledge.

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