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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 State Agriculture Management and Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) as a part of Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) programme. SAMETI (N) conducts HRD activities in thirteen northern districts of Karnataka and is located in University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka. The present study has been carried out to know the effectiveness of training programmes of SAMETI (N) on extension functionaries during 2019 in Belgaum, Dharwad and Gadag districts. The effectiveness was measured in terms of perceived gain in knowledge, perceived job performance and perceived usefulness with 190 extension functionaries, who were trained under SAMETI (N) in the last three years (2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18), were considered as the sample for the present study. An ex-post-facto research design was adopted for the study. The findings of the study revealed that, perceived knowledge with an index of 74.39, perceived job performance with an index of 85.02, Perceived usefulness of the training programmes index was 77.72. We can conclude that training programmes organized by SAMETI (N) were very effective and found to be useful for the respondents.