Feeding and Management Practices Adopted by Local Milch Buffalo Owners under Field Condition of Gadchiroli Tahsil

A field study was carried out to collect the first hand information on buffalo management practices followed by farmer in Gadchiroli Tahsil of Gadchiroli Dist. during the year 2015-16 under Sanctioned project by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi entitled as "Hope generation in livestock owners of tribal area under two blocks of Gadchiroli district through training and demonstration of scientific livestock management practices" to the Section of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science, College of Agriculture, Nagpur. Existing Feeding and management practices were studied through predesigned and pretested questionnaire from 200 buffalo owners. The results revealed that the scientific feeding practices were not adopted by majority of the (more than 76.50%) buffalo owners. The wide scope of improvement in the adoption of scientific feeding practices by educating them properly. Majority of buffalo owners adopted open shed (91.50%), kaccha (94.50%), part of residence (92.00%). Adoption of Health Sanitation programme was satisfactory. In breeding management programme needs to improve awareness in respect of artificial insemination.