Effectiveness of training interventions of krishi vigyan (KVK), Thrissur in adoption of cool season vegetables

Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Thrissur, established in 2004 under Kerala Agricultural University, is conducting several On Farm Trials (OFT), Front Line Demonstrations (FLD), and trainings from 2008 in popularizing the cultivation of Cool Season Vegetables (CSV). This empirical study was carried out to...

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Autor Principal: Sabira M P
Outros autores: Arularasan G S (Guide)
Formato: Ph.D Thesis
Publicado: Vellanikkara Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Horticulture 2016
Subjects:
Department of Agricultural Extension
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520 3 |a Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Thrissur, established in 2004 under Kerala Agricultural University, is conducting several On Farm Trials (OFT), Front Line Demonstrations (FLD), and trainings from 2008 in popularizing the cultivation of Cool Season Vegetables (CSV). This empirical study was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of training interventions of KVK, Thrissur, assess the extent of adoption of CSV in the coastal areas of Thrissur district namely Mathilakom and Perinjanam panchayats, and to elucidate the major constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of CSVs. Demographic indicators and socio-personal characteristics of the respondents in the study area was collected and analysed. Out of 120 respondents, a greater percentage of respondents (86.70 %) were married females. As younger generations are attracted towards the lucrative jobs in foreign countries, 56.70 per cent of the respondents were found to be in the age group of 51 and above. About 81 per cent of the respondents were farmers by occupation with high school education and above. There were no illiterate respondents. 56.66 per cent of the respondents had medium experience level. In case of annual income, about 57 per cent of the respondents belonged to high income group. Most of the respondents (85.80 %) had less than one acre of land with terraced (62.50 %) and double storied houses (18.30 %) followed by tiled houses (17.50 %). High levels of contact with extension agents and economic motivation were noticed among 41.60 and 62.50 per cent of the respondents respectively. Nearly three fourth of the respondents (72.55 %) exhibited medium levels of risk orientation and social participation (73.30 %); while around two third had medium level of cosmopoliteness (62.50 %).About 54.1 per cent of the respondents opined that the inputs required for cultivation of CSV was available in time in the locality. Majority of the respondents were early adopters (62.50 %) followed by early majority. The content of the training interventions was adequate, according to 62.50 per cent of the respondents. While the contents included in the training interventions were very useful for 21 per cent of the respondents, it was found to be useful for 72.30 per cent. About three-fourth of the respondents (73.3%) had partially adopted the cultivation practices. An overwhelming majority of the respondents have got enlightened from the training interventions and they were very effective for around 21 per cent of the respondents and effective for nearly 70 per cent of the respondents. Adequacy of contents showed positive and significant correlation with age, education status, occupation, social participation and cosmopoliteness. Utility of the content had significant and positive relationship with input availability, social participation, extension contact, risk orientation, house type, occupation and annual income. Multinomial Logistic Regression (MLR) showed that the independent variables, income (66.3 2%), input availability (54.00 %) and risk orientation (46.72%) were the three variables that explained more about the utility of the contents. Economic motivation, social participation and innovative proneness explained the adoption of CSV at 49.16 per cent, 42.66 per cent and 66.22 per cent respectively. For majority of the respondents (69.20%), the training interventions were effective; and for about 21 per cent, they were very effective. Age and economic motivation are the prime variables to be considered for transforming the adopters from medium to high level. The items underlying the major factor ‘outreach behaviour’ were social participation, extension agency contact and cosmopoliteness. The items under second major factor ‘facilitating environment’ included input availability and production facilities. The major three constraints identified were, high cost of production, poor availability of seedlings in time and lack of availability of organic manure.The study revealed that the training interventions of KVK, Thrissur in adoption of CSV in the coastal areas of Thrissur District was effective. The study brought out the fact that with the cooperation of farmers in Mathilakom block; KVK, Thrissur had successfully battled the odds to embrace the production of cabbage, cauliflower and onion with increasing success. Regarding the adoption of cool season vegetables, KVK can still improve by helping the trainees to overcome some of the constraints that they perceived as barriers which block them in achieving their goal. Training interventions in seedling production and persuading the farmers in commercial production of CSV are some of the suggestions proposed to make cool season vegetables an attractive and more lucrative venture and also attract the youth towards this endeavour. 
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