Smallholder dairy farmers in developing countries face many feed constraints such as inadequate feed quality andquantity, poor storage facilities for feed conservation as well as insufficient water. However, feeding of livestock continuesto pose many problems due to lack of information on composition and utilization of locally available feed resources. Astudy was therefore conducted to know the feeding patterns, socio-economic parameters of livestock farmers, herd size andcrops cultivated by livestock farmers in Karnataka covering under 4 agro-climatic zones, 4 districts, 4 taluks, 12 villages and120 farmers selected using multistage sampling. More number of the farmers belonged to middle age group with mediumfarming experience and below half of farmers belonged to marginal farm size with low annual income and nearly half of thefarmer had high school education. Milking animals were more in case of northern dry zone followed by northern transitionalzone, hilly zone and coastal zone. The mean quantity of feeding dry fodder such as paddy straw, groundnut straw, hay anddry fodder from morning to evening was comparatively more in coastal zone followed by hilly zone, northern dry zone andnorthern transition zone. Whereas the mean quantity of feeding green fodder from morning to evening was comparativelymore in northern dry zone followed by northern transitional zone, hilly zone and coastal zone.