Prakashkumar Rathod

Karnataka Veterinary Animal and Fisheries Sciences University

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Mahesh Chander

Indian Veterinary Research Institute

T. R. Nikam

Bombay Veterinary College

Sariput Landge

Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University

Amit Hatey

Bombay Veterinary College

Channappagouda Biradar

Karnataka Veterinary Animal and Fisheries Sciences University

B. L. Balaraju

Indian Veterinary Research Institute

D. Bardhan

Indian Veterinary Research Institute

Yogesh C. Bangar

Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Vivek M Patil

Government of Karnataka

Satish Chandra Biradar

Karnataka Veterinary Animal and Fisheries Sciences University

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Karnataka Veterinary Animal and Fisheries Sciences University

Indian Veterinary Research Institute

Veterinary & Animal Husbandry

Indian Council of Agricultural Research

Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University

Bombay Veterinary College

Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University

Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department

National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology

Zhejiang Gongshang University

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Economic Losses due to Subclinical Mastitis in Dairy Animals: A Study in Bidar District of Karnataka

The Indian journal of veterinary sciences and biotechnology (2017)

Prakashkumar Rathod V. Shivamurty Anant Rao Desai

A total of 421 pooled milk samples from zebu/ desi cows, crossbred cows and buffaloes were screened to study the incidence rate and economic losses due to subclinical mastitis (SCM) in 10 villages of two blocks under the World Bank funded, Karnataka watershed Development Department sponsored - Sujala III project during last two years. Nine out of 421 samples (2.13%) were found positive for SCM by CMT. The economic losses due to subclinical form of mastitis were estimated in the range of INR 21,677/- to INR 88,340/- pre animal for a lactation period. The study found that incidence of SCM was also related to managemental practices followed by dairy farmers.

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10.21887/ijvsbt.v13i01.8732

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Rural Telecentres as Innovation Brokers in Livestock Innovation System in India: A Review

Indian Research Journal of Extension Education (2014)

Mahesh Chander Prakashkumar Rathod B.L. Balaraju

Livestock extension services in India are delivered by multifarious agencies among which public extension services is the major stakeholder, but has failed in its activities and functions due to lack of human resource, infrastructural, budgetary constraints etc. Today, extension services have been questioned for its linear understanding of knowledge and technology transfer or brokering from researchers to farmers. In this context, intermediary or broker agencies or organizations is very relevant to play a role in bridging, bonding, and linking social capital which differs from traditional extension and R&D. “Innovation intermediary or broker” is defined as an organization or body that acts as an agent or broker in any aspect of the innovation process between two or more parties which include multitude of intermediary activities in innovation system. Although, several types of innovation brokers operate at different levels in different sectors, the authors have focused on the role of rural telecentres as brokers in Livestock Innovation System (LIS). The paper includes the role and importance of telecentres by highlighting their activities as effective innovation brokers to bridge the gap between multi-stakeholders. Further, few experiences of telecentres in livestock sector has been drawn to understand the effectiveness of different innovation brokerage mechanisms. An attempt has also been made to emphasize the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of telecentres as innovation brokers in India for effective LIS. The paper concludes that although, telecentres are effective to a great extent for implementation of LIS in India, there is a need to focus on stimulating and enabling the institutional innovations needed to allow these telecentres to emerge and grow organically in context-specific ways. Since these innovations brokering models cannot be directly copied from one context to the other as best-fit solutions, need based and context specific innovation brokers must be developed for agricultural and animal husbandry development in India and other developing countries.

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Small ruminant farmers' training needs in Karnataka as perceived by farmers and veterinarians.

Asian Journal of Animal Sciences (2014)

B. L. Balaraju Prakash Khandekar Mahesh Chander H. Dileep Kumar Prakashkumar Rathod

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Supplementary Feeding of Goats during Transition Period- A Participatory Action Research in North-Eastern Transition Zone of Karnataka State, India

International Journal of Livestock Research (2018)

Prakashkumar Rathod K. C. Veeranna B Ramachandra Channappagouda Biradar Anant Desai

10.5455/ijlr.20180316062621

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Adoption status of livestock innovations and factors affecting their adoption in Bidar District of Karnataka.

Indian Journal of Field Veterinarians (2014)

Prakashkumar Rathod Siddalingaswamy Hiremath H. V. Manjunathachar B.L. Balaraj Yogesh C. Bangar

An ex-post facto and exploratory study was conducted to assess the adoption status of livestock innovations and factors affecting their adoption in Bidar District of Karnataka. Among thirteen innovations studied, pregnancy diagnosis and vaccination against disease were the most adopted innovations while compost making/biogas and enrichment of roughages were the poorly adopted innovations. The study revealed that majority of dairy farmers belongs to medium level of innovativeness followed by high and low level of innovativeness. The study concluded that, there is a need to assess the technological gaps, actual adoption of technologies and factors affecting their adoption and diffusion at field conditions. Appropriate strategies must be developed by livestock agencies to have better impact and popularization of livestock technologies.

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Practices and Gaps of Artificial Insemination in Indian Dairying: A Multi-stakeholder Analysis

Indian Journal of Dairy Science (2015)

Prakashkumar Rathod Mahesh Chander V. Ramesh

The shaping of agriculture and allied sectors is possible as a result of research and development (R&D) efforts by offering new ideas, innovations, products and technologies. However, it is also observed that, majority of the technologies developed by scientists are irrelevant and inappropriate for field conditions leading to poor diffusion and adoption. This issue is also aggravated by the fact that there is poor linkage of research-extension and farmers. With this theoretical background, the present study has focused on the ground realities or practices, perception of multi-stakeholders viz. dairy farmers, scientists and extensionists about AI and has proposed certain policy implications for Indian dairy industry. The study included 360 dairy farmers, 80 research scientists and 40 extensionists in India. The primary data was collected by both qualitative and quantitative method using interview schedule, questionnaire, Focus Group Discussion and observation method. The study revealed that scientists and extension experts were more favorable towards relevance, profitability and sustainability of AI, while the perception of farmers was less favourable towards AI. The study also observed that there was a wide gap (higher per cent gap) among farmers-scientists and farmers-extensionists with regards to relevance, profitability and sustainability of AI, while the gap was very narrow among scientists and extensionists. Hence, the study concluded that scientists have to generate and transfer field relevant, profitable and sustainable dairy innovations for higher diffusion and adoption at field conditions. The study also recommends to involve farmers as the partners of research and extension for effective generation and transfer of dairy innovations leading to higher productivity in Indian dairy sector.

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10.5146/ijds.v68i5.47053.g22270

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Mobilization of green fodder production through cultivation and feeding of super Napier: An action Research

International Journal of Research in Agronomy (2024)

Nagaraj Prakashkumar Rathod Channappagouda Biradar Ananth Rao Desai Satish Chandra Biradar

An Action oriented approach to sensitize and mobilize the dairy farmers for intensive cultivation of super Napier fodder in Kalyana Karnataka region of Karnataka, India was conducted in Bidar district of Karnataka. This action research involved 10 respondents who reported that there was increase in quantity of milk after feeding the super Napier fodder to milch animals and there was no remarkable change in fat and SNF. Further, farmers felt that super Napier fodder was high yielding and required less time to grow in both first cut and subsequent cut, with less land and labour for same output compared to other fodder crops. Scarcity of water/ lack of irrigation facilities, low / non availability of cultivable land, lack of labour/ manpower, preference for cultivation of agriculture/cash crops were the major constraints in fodder production. The study concluded that there is a need to improve the knowledge level of farmers about fodder production and feeding of green fodder crops to dairy animals through various extension approaches for improved dairy production in the study area.

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10.33545/2618060x.2024.v7.i3sd.448

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Development of Livestock Sector in the Semi-arid Regions of Karnataka: Status and Strategies

International Journal of Livestock Research (2020)

Prakashkumar Rathod Sreenath Dixit D. Moses Mukund Patil

10.5455/ijlr.20191129082230

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Perception towards Livestock Breeding Service Delivery by Dairy Cooperatives

Prakashkumar Rathod T. R. Nikam Sariput Landge Amit Hatey

A study was conducted in Western Maharashtra region to know the perception of farmers towards livestock breeding services delivered by Gokul Dairy Cooperative with regard to timely availability, amount paid and satisfaction level of the farmers towards the services. The study revealed that 76.66 per cent of the farmers perceived that breeding services were timely available while 23.34 per cent responded that services were late. With regards to amount paid for the services, 31.33 per cent of the respondents perceived that breeding services were freely available while 44.67 per cent farmers answered that services were at nominal rates. In the study area, 37.34 per cent respondents were satisfied and 46.0 per cent of the farmers were partly satisfied with the breeding service delivery. The relation between timely availability of services and the independent variables depicted that variables education, livestock possession and economic orientation were significant while factors viz. annual income, scientific orientation and economic orientation were significant at 5 per cent level of significance with amount paid for breeding services. The variables age, education, occupation and annual income were found significant with satisfaction level of dairy farmers. Majority of the farmers perceived that high cost of Artificial Insemination (AI) and less number of veterinarians were the major constraints in livestock breeding service delivery. The study concluded that Gokul Dairy Cooperative provided various livestock breeding services for the farmers mostly on time at free or nominal rates. Since majority of the farmers were partly satisfied with breeding services, there is an urgent need to improve upon the quality of breeding services so that farmers would be more content and satisfied with the services of dairy cooperatives.

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Economic importance of ticks and their effective control strategies

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease (2014)

Haranahalli Vasanthachar Manjunathachar B. C. Saravanan Manickam Kesavan Kumaragurubaran Karthik Prakashkumar Rathod

Role of livestock in improvement of a country's economy is inevitable. Livestock contributes a lion's share in agricultural sector of developing countries. Several developing countries have adopted the use of exotic germplasm to improve the productivity of their native breeds, which has brought down the disease resistance. Among various problems hindering the growth and productivity of livestock, parasite related problem plays a major role. Tick and tick borne diseases are prevalent in 80% of the cattle population around the globe. They cause various worries to the farmers by transmitting major disease causing pathogens and jeopardize animal health leading to poor production. Ticks transmit various pathogenic agents like virus, bacteria, protozoa and other parasites as well. Many of them are dangerous for the livestock health and some are also zoonotic hence, need to be checked at the initial stages. Control of ticks is the major concern in the present situation as the use of anti-parasitic drugs has led to the current trend of resistance development. Search for an effective alternative method has begun; vaccination will be a better alternative and promising tool for protecting livestock from the tick infestations and thereby tick borne diseases.

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10.1016/s2222-1808(14)60725-8

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