Training modules for promoting buffalo husbandry among different categories of respondents

Abstract

To undertake this study nine trainings of week’s duration on buffalo husbandry were organized for different types of respondents in which 254 farmers, entrepreneurs, women and youth participated. Training needs of different categories of respondents were worked out. The farmers considered the topics on heat symptoms in buffaloes and artificial insemination, feeding and management of lactating animals and mastitis in buffaloes and its care and management as most important for their training module. As far as training contents for youth are concerned they specially desired to include nutrients in concentrate mixture and importance of reproduction in buffaloes. They also wanted that half of the time each should be devoted to theory and practicals respectively. Women evinced keen interest in feeding requirements of dry, milch and pregnant buffaloes, management and reproduction of buffaloes during heat and importance of AI in buffaloes. The entrepreneurs desired that they should be given information on some new technologies like preparation of mineral mixture, preparation of complete feed blocks, care and management of calves for meat production and importance of reproduction, heat detection and therapeutic control of estrous. The appropriateness of contents was confirmed when response was elicited from different categories of respondents in subsequent training programmes.