Knowledge Gained by Dairy Farmers Through Micro Training Centres (MTCs): A Summative Evaluation
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2023-04-03
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MAFSU, Nagpur
Abstract
The present study entitled “KNOWLEDGE GAINED BY DAIRY
FARMERS THROUGH MICRO TRAINING CENTRES (MTCs): A
SUMMATIVE EVALUATION” was carried out in the purposively selected Nagpur, Wardha and Amravati districts of Maharashtra. Three Micro Training
centres established by the Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University
with the financial support of National Dairy Development Board, Gujrat were
selected for studying the dairy farmers being trained through these MTCs.
Randomly selected 80 dairy farmers from each MTCs were included to
make the final sample of 240 respondents. A pre-tested structured interview
schedule was employed in conjunction with personal interview approaches,
observations, and information from study reports.
The findings revealed that the majority of the respondents were from
middle age group (63.75 %), with education up to secondary school (50.83%),
were males (95.83%) from OBC category (56.25%), with medium family size
(60.83%), having joint families (75.00%), were married (86.70%), with medium
land holding (56.25%), had large herd size (87.50%), with high medium milk
production (43.33%), milk sale (46.25%), were from medium annual income
group (62.5%), relying on television for extension contact (68.75%), with cent
percent of them attending an animal husbandry related training.
Regarding the effectiveness of training it is indicated that the highest mean
score was given for presentation/training imparted by the MTCs farmer (4.97)
followed by Relevance of the Course (4.90), Facilities for Training (4.80), Clarity
of Explanation (4.37), Training Environment (4.25), Coverage of Training
Objectives (4.23) Boarding Facilities (4.20), Handling of Sessions (4.00) and the
lowest mean score was for Practical Exposure (3.69). The Overall Effective Index
Mean Score was (87.58) for the effectiveness on different aspects of training
components.
The dairy farmers attending the training at MTC, Wardha showed the
maximum gain in knowledge at a mean score of 40.72 per cent followed by 38.78
per cent and 38.26 per cent for farmers trained at MTC, Nagpur and MTC,
Amaravati respectively. Major constraints reported by dairy farmers were inadequate knowledge
about the scientific feeding of dairy animals, high cost of vaccines and medicine,
lack of good quality semen and inadequate knowledge about clean milk
production.