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Research
8.
Relationship between affordability to pay for the
veterinary services and profile characteristics of
dairy farmers -
M. Srinivasa Reddy,
Sudhakar B Rao
Vet World. 2011; 4(6): 266-268
doi:
10.5455/vetworld.4.266
Abstract
An Ex-post facto research design was adopted to
study the affordability of dairy farmers to pay for
the veterinary services and their relationship with
personal and selected psychological characteristics.
Majority of the dairy farmers possessed medium
affordability followed by less affordability to pay
for the veterinary services. Correlation analysis
indicated that all the variables except age have got
positive and significant correlation with the
affordability to pay for the veterinary services.
The variable age was negative and significantly
correlated with affordability to pay for the
veterinary services. Regression analysis indicated
that all the variables selected for study put
together contributed for explaining 74.5% of
variation in the dependent variable i.e
affordability to pay for the services. The profile
characteristics of dairy farmers like education,
information seeking behaviour, scientific
orientation, economic orientation and market
orientation had significantly positive influence on
their affordability to pay for the veterinary
services; while age and management orientation had
significant negative impact on the same. The
contribution of the remaining 5 variables were not
significant.
Keywords: Affordability ,
Privatisation, Veterinary services, Relationship
