Vol. 12, Special Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
Sumat Kumar Shakya, Nawal Singh Rawat, Anjani Kumar Mishra, Rajeev Ranjan, Suman Sant and Karishma Kakotiya

Abstract:
The present study was undertaken to document information regarding health care management practices followed by the farmers of Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh comprises of four districts namely Rewa, Satna, Sidhi and Singrauli. The data were collected personally by the researcher through face-to-face interview and analyzed by frequency and percentage. As concerned to the buffalo health care management practices, majority (58.83%) of respondents have proper veterinary facilities and 78.75% of respondents followed the vaccination to control the various contagious diseases while, 21.25% of respondents did not adopted these practices. it was also found that 25.83% of the respondents vaccinated their buffaloes against the Foot and Mouth followed by 11.67%, 13.33%, 10.00%, 8.33%, 8.75% and 15.41% of the respondents vaccinated their buffaloes against HS, BQ, BQ+HS, BQ+FMD, HS+FMD and BQ+HS+FMD, respectively. Majority of respondents (94.17%) kept sick buffaloes together with healthy ones while only 5.83% of the respondents adopted the segregation of diseased buffalo from healthy ones, while majority (87.08%) of the respondents got treated their sick dairy buffalo by qualified veterinarians, whereas 6.67% and 6.25% respondents got treated their sick dairy buffaloes by local personal and others, respectively. The practice of deworming of calves was adopted only 29.58% of the respondents regularly, whereas 70.42% of respondents did not adopted deworming and 25.42% of respondents followed the practices to control the ecto and endoparasites of the dairy buffaloes in the Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh.