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 concept of vocational training in agriculture through KVK grew substantially due to greater demand for improved agricultural technology by the farmers. The study was carried out in Tlangnuam block of Aizawl District of Mizoram. The Tlangnuam block was purposively selected because of large number of farmers’ participation in KVK’s training programme. For the selection of respondents, a list of ginger trainees of KVK during preceding three years (2016-17 to 2018-19) was prepared. Out of 210 trainees list, only 60 farmers were randomly selected from KVK adopted villages of Tlangnuam block. The findings of the study revealed that farmers had gained knowledge about ginger production technology ranging from 10.0 per cent of land preparation to 80.0 per cent of seed treatment after attending training programmes organized by the KVK. The study showed that none of the farmers were following the improved package of practices of ginger production like soil testing, soil treatment, seed treatment, seed rate and spacing before acquiring the training whereas, after attending the training programme they adopted soil testing (51.7 %), soil treatment (20.0 %), seed treatment (36.7 %) and seed rate and spacing (65.0 %). The study also revealed that they started adopting the ginger production technologies ranging from 10.0 per cent for storage practices to 75.0 per cent for high yielding variety after attending training programmes.
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