Study on adoption behavior of tribal dairy cooperative member’s in Purulia district of W.B.

Tribal are having traditional culture of livestock rearing along with agriculture, Hunting etc. for their livelihood. A study was carried out in 05 no’s of densely tribal populated blocks in Purulia district having dairy cooperatives farming system. From the purposively selected blocks, 05 GP’s were selected and form each of the selected blocks & GPs 50% of the tribal and non-tribal dairy cooperative members were selected randomly. In this way, 69 tribal cooperative members and 87 non-tribal cooperative member’s (Total 156 no’s of respondent’s) were selected, which constituted the sample of the present study. The data were collected with the help of pre-tested structured interview schedule. The data thus analysed through various statistical methods such as – Correlation, MDS, Indexing, Path analysis etc. The study explored that Non-tribal community had significant effect and higher scores on adoption, attitude in dairy farming & knowledge in deworming than Tribal community. The tribal members of dairy cooperative societies has highest ranking of adoption on deworming whereas in non-tribal members adoption in vaccination has highest ranking. Finally, education, family education status, decision making pattern, community, community farm power has largest direct effect on knowledge level, attitude & adoption index of selected respondent and this variables have come to be key factors in adoption of improved practices among  selected tribal dairy cooperative members.