Activities of Krishi Vigyan Kendra in Samastipur district of Bihar: an evaluative study
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2018
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur
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The ICAR has established KVKs all over the country by making provision for multidisciplinary team of scientists. The institution is playing strategic role in technology back stopping, knowledge management and advisory to the stake holders like farmers, farm women, rural youths and extension personnel. The number of KVKs has risen to 645 and 106.more KVKs are to be established in the newly created districts and some larger districts. The KVK scheme is 100% financed by Govt. of India.
The KVK, Samastipur was established in 2004 in 50 Acres of land at Birauli. which is 8 km away from the University headquarters and 15 km from the Samastipur district town. The KVK, Samastipur has under taken many interventions like training, OFT, FLD and other capacity building programmes to enhance the well being of farmers through enhancing production, productivity and profitability. The Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Birauli Samastipur has been bestowed with the award of “Best KVK (Zone-II)” by Hon‟ble Agriculture & Food Processing Industry Minister, Sri Sharad Pawar at the 8th National Conference on KVK organized at University of Agriculture Science, Bangaluru from 23rd-25th October, 2013.In view of the same, effort was made to undertake a study entitled.
“Activities of Krishi Vigyan Kendra in Samastipur District of Bihar: An Evaluative Study” with the following specific objectives:
To determine the coverage area through activities of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Samastipur.
To find out the socio-economic characteristic of the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries.
To explore the knowledge level and Extent of adoption of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries farmers related with prime activities undertaken by the Krishi Vigyan Kendra.
To assess the effect of different activities on the socio-economic development of beneficiaries.
To examine the association between the selected independent variables and dependent variables.
During 2016-17, all together 2842 farmers were trained by KVK, Birauli where as 759 farmers had benefited through different FLDs. More than Rs.8.0 lakh was earned by KVK through selling of planting materials, vermicmpost and publication where as 5000 farmers were benefited from other extension activities like Kisan Mela, Gosthi, diagnostic or field visit, advisories etc. more than 10 on farm trail were conducted for assessment and refinement. Majority of the respondents (88.89 per cent) belonged to middle to old age group having agriculture along with dairy and business as their major occupation. Further it was found that the annual income of majority of the respondents was in between 1 to 2 lakh per annum and most of the selected respondents had an educational attainment of intermediate and above. The majority (84.44 per cent) of the respondents belonged to small to marginal land holding category with a family size of more than 5 family members. In terms of farm mechanization, contact with extension agency, economic motivation the EDP beneficiaries‟ ranked top among others (i.e. FLD and non beneficiaries). In case of use of available source of information only 50% of total selected respondents used available source of information, out of them EDP beneficiaries again possess the major proportion. However, the EDP beneficiaries were the most frequently in contact with extension agency. It was also revealed during the study that EDP beneficiaries were found more aware related with knowledge of the activity of KVK undertaken in this study i.e., Mushroom production technology and vermicompost technology. While in case of knowledge level of FLD beneficiaries was having more knowledge about seed variety, package and practices of crop production than non-beneficiaries. Further in terms of adoption the vermicompost technology was most adopted by the beneficiaries and the impact of vermicompost training activities on the socio-economic development of beneficiaries possess high. During the study, it was found that age, land and source of income of the respondents were significantly associated with the knowledge level of the farmers. also, social participation improved technology.
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