Knowledge Gained by Dairy Farmers Through Micro Training Centres (MTCs): A Summative Evaluation

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dc.contributor.advisorBanthiya, V. V.
dc.contributor.authorKamble Avinash Chandrakant
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-02T11:12:29Z
dc.date.available2024-02-02T11:12:29Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-03
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810206676
dc.keywordsAnimal Husbandry
dc.keywordsExtension
dc.keywordsDairy Farmer
dc.keywordsMicro Training Centre
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.pages133
dc.publisherMAFSU, Nagpur
dc.subVeterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education
dc.themeDairy Farmers Through Micro Training Centres (MTCs): A Summative Evaluation
dc.these.typeM.V.Sc.
dc.titleKnowledge Gained by Dairy Farmers Through Micro Training Centres (MTCs): A Summative Evaluation
dc.typeThesis
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