A comparative analysis of constraints faced by NARI Suwarna and local sheep rearing farmers in Karnataka

Abstract

The present study was conducted to identify the constraints faced by NARI Suwarna and local sheep rearing farmers in Karnataka.The study was conducted during the year 2022-23. For collection of primary data, exponential nondiscriminative snow ball sampling method was used for NARI Suwarna sheep farmers and random sampling method was used for local sheep farmers. In the first stage, major four districts (Chitradurga, Tumkur, Belgaum, Bagalkot) were selected based on highest population of sheep according to 20th livestock census, 2019. In the second stage, 15 local sheep farmers were selected randomly from each district and 60 NARI Suwarna sheep farmers were selected in Karnataka by snow ball sampling technique. Thus, the total sample size for the study was 120. The data was analysed by using the Garrett’s ranking technique. Results indicated that the major constraints faced by NARI Suwarna sheep farmers were the high initial cost for construction of shed and animals which ranked first with mean Garrett’s score of 61.35, followed by high-risk involvement in rearing of sheep (55.83), difficulty in getting pure breed of sheep (54.13), high cost for feed concentrations (54.03) and lamb mortality (50.00).Whereas in case of local sheep farming, poor community grazing lands was the major constraint with mean Garrett’s score of 61.23 because of the decline in area under community grazing lands, followed by high disease incidence in sheep (61.03), lamb mortality (57.50) and limited awareness towards insurance for sheep (50.03) were the other constraints.