RESPONSE OF BUFFALO BREEDERS TO THE PROVIDED EXTENSION SERVICE IN DHI QAR GOVERNORATE.

The research was aimed to evaluate the response of buffalo breeders to the provided extension service in Dhi Qar Governorate. A research plan consisted of a quadrilateral scale was prepared to evaluate 46 various indicative recommendations distributed on three axes, namely, breeding methods, productivity, and herd management, and ten areas, included barns, nutrition, milking, herd composition, genetic improvement, reproductive performance, animal care, calf care, vaccination, animal health, and primary veterinary knowledge. A simple proportional random sample of 124 breeders was selected at a rate of 3% of the buffalo breeders community in the governorate, which numbered 4230 breeders distributed among the districts and sub-districts. The overall weighted rate of the breeders' response in collecting research axes and fields reached 2.43, which is higher than the hypothetical mean of the response scale of 1.5, which expresses a state of easy readiness to adopt indicative recommendations, which should be invested in developing buffalo breeding activity. The research recommends investing the breeders' response to the recommendations, and give breeding buffaloes with sufficient attention in planning extension development activities, and setting up an integrated extension program that focuses on buffalo breeding due to the widespread of this activity in Dhi Qar Governorate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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