Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Abstract

The present study was conducted to analyze the attitudinal disposition of the duck farmers of Kuttanad region in the Alappuzha district towards scientific duck farming. Multistage random sampling procedure was adopted for selecting the sample respondents. A total of one hundred and fifty duck farmers from six panchayaths were selected randomly from both Lower and Upper Kuttanad region. The study revealed that the favourable attitude category predominated followed by somewhat favourable and unfavourable attitude categories in that order. There was no significant difference between the attitude of farmers of Lower and Upper Kuttanad. An analysis of the attitude towards various aspects of scientific duck farming revealed that the Upper Kuttanad farmers’ attitude towards land availability aspect significantly differed from that of Lower Kuttanad farmers. There was no significant difference between the farmers of Lower and Upper Kuttanad regions regarding other aspects of scientific duck farming viz. social status, value addition, awareness creation, profitability, social stigma, marketability, risk factor, low cost technology, women empowerment, housing and labour.