Bairathi, RajeevKumar, Vinod2017-10-262017-10-262016Kumar and Bairathi, 2016http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810033956Employment Generation in tribal through KVK in Dungarpur District (Rajasthan)Looking to the importance of employment generation trainings, the present study entitled “Employment Generation in tribal through KVK in Dungarpur District (Rajasthan)” was undertaken with the following specific objectives: 1. To study the personal profile of beneficiary respondents of KVK 2. To assess the knowledge of tribal beneficiaries of Krishi Vigyan Kendra about employment generation activities. 3. To find out the level of participation of tribal in employment generation trainings organized by Krishi Vigyan Kendra. 4. To study the extent of employment generated among tribal beneficiaries through Krishi Vigyan Kendra. 5. To determine the association between selected personnel traits and employment generation activities among respondents. 6. To identify the constraints faced by the tribal farmers in taking up employment generation activities. The present study was conducted in the purposely selected Dungarpur and Simalwara tehsils of Dungarpur district of Rajasthan. Five villages from each selected tehsil were taken on The study revealed that 53.00 per cent of the total respondents belonged to medium age group, 30.00 per cent of the respondents were educated upto primary, 32.00 per cent respondents were labour, 33.00 per cent respondents had annual income from Rs. 10,000 to 1.0 lakh per annum, 30.00 per cent respondents were landless, 59.00 per cent farmers were living in joint family and 29.00 per cent respondents were participant of only one organization. The study also revealed that 40.00 per cent of the total respondents had medium level of knowledge about employment generation activities of KVK, whereas, 23.00 and 37.00 per cent farmers had low and high level of knowledge about employment generation activities of KVK. Further study revealed that in aspect wise knowledge of KVK trainings, poultry management was ranked first with MPS 89.75. Nursery management with 82.76 MPS was ranked second and organic farming/vermicomposting and preservation of products were ranked equally at third position with MPS 76.85. Findings revealed that majority of respondents i.e. 56.00 percent of total respondents reported participation in training on dairy management to a great extent, whereas, 63.00 per cent respondents reported participation in training on propagation of plant to some extent. It may be concluded that participation in most of the employment generation trainings of KVK was moderate and more efforts are required to encourage their participation in these training which can provide employment to beneficiary farmers in a real meaning. The majority i.e. 62.00 per cent of the total respondents reported employment generated by dairy management at great extent. 65.00 per cent respondents reported employment generation through organic farming/vermiculture at some extent and 27.00 per cent respondents reported for income generated by goat rearing. It was found that family size of the respondents was significantly associated with employment generation activities, whereas, age, education, occupation, income, size of land holding and social participation were not significantly associated with employment generation activities. Results found that lack of skill about employment generation activities, timely unavailability of seeds, lack of credit facility, lack of training institution for training of farmers/farm women, fatalistic attitude towards employment generation activity etc. were important constraints perceived by the tribal farmers in taking up employment generation activities. the basis of maximum tribal population. Thus, total ten villages were selected for the study. For selection of respondents, complete list of vocational training beneficiaries of KVK Dungarpur was prepared and 10 respondents were selected randomly from each selected village. Thus, in all 100 farmers were included in the sample of the study. Data were collected through tailor made interview schedule. Thereafter, data were analyzed and results were interpreted as given below:ennullEmployment generation in tribal through KVK in Dungarpur district (Rajasthan)Thesis