Impact of Educational Interventions on Knowledge and Adoption of Migratory and Non Migratory Shepherd Households

Abstract

Sheep farming forms an important component of rural economy particularly in newlinedeveloping countries by providing livelihood to a large percentage of small and newlinemarginal farmers and landless labourers. The shepherds are deprived of better/improved newlinesheep rearing practices due to their continuous migration in search of fodder and water. newlineHence a study was undertaken to know the impact of educational interventions on newlinemigratory and non- migratory shepherd households during the year 2019-2020 under the newlinejurisdiction of UAS, Dharwad. The results revealed that, considerable (51.10 % and 86.11 newline%) per cent of the men and women were illiterates. Majority (79.40 %) had nuclear newlinefamily with small family size (61.11 %) and marginal land holdings (36.10 %). M ajority newlineof the respondents (85.00 %) had medium flock size (150-299) in permanent migration newlinewhereas 95.00 percent and 86.67 percent had small flock size in semi- migration and newlinenon- migration respectively. Over three fourth of the shepherds belonged to high annual newlineincome group in permanent (68.34 %) and semi- migration (63.34 %) and low annual newlineincome in non- migration (66.66 %). Large segment of the sample (95.00 %, 73.30 % newlineand 93.30 %) in permanent, semi- migration and in non- migration belonged to medium newlinecategory of management orientation. In total, 82.70 per cent of men and 61.66 per cent newlineof women belonged to medium knowledge category. Overall knowledge index of men newlinewas 57.34 and women was 53.16. In permanent migration, the information newlineconsultancy pattern was highly and positively correlated with knowledge of men (at 1 newlineper cent). In semi- migration, innovative-proneness and adoption was highly and newline206 newlinepositively correlated with knowledge of men (at 5 per cent). In non- migration, newlinemanagement orientation and adoption were positively significant with knowledge of newlinemen (at 1 per cent). Education of the men was negatively correlated with knowledge (at newline5 per cent). Majority (75.00 % and 65.00 %) of the shepherd belonged to low category of newlineadoption in permanent migration and in semi- migra