author(s)
SM Nanda, P Swain, BC Das, SK Dash and K Shweta

abstract
This study was conducted with 120 veterinarians from the coastal districts of Odisha namely Ganjam, Puri, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Bhadrak and Balasore. Twenty field veterinarians per district were chosen at a random. Significant difference was observed in the information needs on normal health parameters of cattle and buffalo among the veterinarians posted in rural and urban areas. There is significant difference of the information needs between the young and old age groups with respect to dairy nutrition, dairy schemes and normal health parameters of dairy animals. The male veterinarians are in need of more information needs on dairy breed than their counter parts. Significant difference was observed between the respondents having less than 10 years and more than 20 years of job experience on the information needs on drugs used, dairy schemes, health parameters, dairy nutrition and dairy breeds, respectively with younger ones with higher estimates. Significant difference was observed between veterinarians who have attended more than 20 trainings and the other two groups separately for the information needs in case of Dairy Nutrition, Dairy Schemes and Drugs related to Dairy Husbandry with lower estimates for respondents with more than 20 training experience. The findings of this research can be studied to provide information on different activities of dairy husbandry that can fulfil the needs of the field veterinarians.