International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

The poultry sector is the greatest way to satisfy the protein needs of a country. Backyard poultry farming will be used to meet the rural areas demand for eggs and meat. The study on adoption of poultry management practices by backyard poultry farmers was conducted during 2021-2022 in Northern Karnataka. Sixty backyard poultry farmers were randomly selected from each district to constitute a sample size of 120. The study reported that, half (50.00%) of the backyard poultry farmers were belonged to medium adoption, followed by low (33.33%) and high adoption (25.00%). The practice wise adoption showed that marketing (72.12%) was highly adopted followed by housing and feeding (55.24%) and watering (49.21%). The variables like education, extension contact, social participation, mass media exposure, economic motivation, scientific orientation and risk orientation had positive significant association with adoption of poultry management practices at one per cent level of significance.