• Manhaka Lakiang
• Er. Puneet Arora
• Prof. (Dr.). John David

This study has been conducted to find out the technological gap among the dairy farmer in adoption to improved dairy management practices .The study was conducted in Chaka Block of Prayagraj District (U.P) in the year 2021. The primary data was collected from 120 respondents, questionnaire was prepared and online data was collected using google form. The main objective of the study was finding out of socio-economic status of the respondent, to find the knowledge level of the respondent regarding to improved dairy management, technological gap in adoption to improved dairy management practices, the reason behind of keeping dairy farming in Prayagraj, and the constraint faced by the dairy farmer in adoption to improved dairy management. After analysis the data, majority of the respondent were middle aged, OBC category, having medium literacy and almost half of the respondent have nuclear size family up to five members with dairying as main occupation.. Regarding communication behavior the respondent had medium level of extension contact, information seeking behavior and mass exposure. A medium level percentage was found in regards to the knowledge of the respondent, high level of overall technological gap in adoption recommended practices. Reason of keeping dairy farming is that most of the respondent that is (97.50%) agreed by keeping dairy cattle help to generate regular income through the selling of milk and surplus animal. The most agreed constraint pointed by the respondents that is low market price of milk, high cost of concentrate feed and followed by other constraint indicated within the study. In all it can be concluded from the study that still dairy farmers are deficient in knowledge and adoption regarding improved dairy management practices and still there is a wide technological gap in adoption to improved dairy management which require attention of the government and social organization to attain self sufficiency in dairy.

Dairy, Socio-economics, respondents, knowledge etc.

"STUDIES ON TECHNOLOGICAL GAP OF DAIRY MANAGEMENT IN CHAKA BLOCK OF PRAYAGRAJ DISTRICT (U.P)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no.f736-f738, March-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203589.pdf

"STUDIES ON TECHNOLOGICAL GAP OF DAIRY MANAGEMENT IN CHAKA BLOCK OF PRAYAGRAJ DISTRICT (U.P)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no. ppf736-f738, March-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203589.pdf