National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was conducted in Sirsa district on fifty rural women beneficiaries to whom ten days rigorous training was given on food and preservation. Results highlighted the facts that 64.0 percent beneficiaries were educated upto secondary level and only 12 percent were graduated and belonged to agricultural community. Most of the women were doing little bit of pickle work like lemon and chilly pickle. But they were unaware about other preservation procedures like formation of squashes, chutneys, murrabha, etc. They did not have enough knowledge about precautions to be taken while doing preservation activities. Beside this they were unaware about the important chemicals used in preservation like sodium benzoate and potassium meta-bisulphate. The maximum knowledge observed was in how to make tomato chutney (92.0%) followed by anvola pickle, mixed pickle, squash/sherbets and jam making. The study also highlighted the facts that today rural women want to stand up on their own feet but they lack self-confidence and family support. Therefore more efforts are to be directed to persuade rural women to start their own cottage industry on preservation.
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