Farmers Perception on Backyard Rabbitry in Tripura

The study was conducted in Khowai district of Tripura, a landlocked state of NE India to ascertain farmers' perception of backyard rabbitry and also delineates the constraints as perceived by them in large scale adoption of rabbit rearing. The study reveals that the farmers' perception on requirement of labour is 55 per cent with less practice of cross breeding (90 %), less care of pregnant animal (82.4 %), less care of young animal (72 %) and market system is not optimum (81 %). Non - availability of pure breed strain, high cost of concentrate feed and lack of proper market are the main constraints faced by the farmers for large scale adoption of rabbit farming in Khowai district of the state.