Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 29, No 5 (2016)

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Skill development of rural women through KVK trainings

ROOPA T. MALABASARI, UMA S. HIREMATH

Abstract


Women must be recognized as major force in development and involved more actively and productively in thedevelopment process for the eradication of poverty, economic and social services. The term training refers to the acquisitionof knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills. Hence, thepresent study was conducted to find out the effectiveness of skill training and adoption of selected agricultural technologiesimparted by KVK Bagalkot. The present study was carried out with the sample size of 240 rural women. These rural womenwere categorized into two groups, i.e. trained and untrained having 120 women in each. The overall knowledge level of trainedgroup was high in dairy management and medium in seed treatment, vermicomposting and integrated farming system. Therespondents from untrained group possessed medium level of knowledge in dairy management and low level of knowledgein seed treatment, vermicomposting and integrated farming system. With respect to adoption, majority of trained womenbelonged to high level of adoption category in dairy management and low level of adoption category in seed treatment andintegrated farming system. The vermicomposting technology did not adopted by rural women. Out of the selected twelvevariables, main occupation of the family i.e agriculture exhibited positive and significant relationship at one per cent withthe knowledge (0.329) and adoption level (0.337) about agricultural technologies. With respect to knowledge level ofuntrained group, positive and significant relationship with marital status (0.225) at 5 per cent level was found. More thansixty per cent of rural women (65.00%) stated that lack of financial assistance as their main constraint in adoption ofagricultural technologies followed by non co-operation and lack of family encouragement (41.66%), lack of market facility(27.50%).

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