Adoption Status of the KVK interventions- A case study of KVK, Dharwad

Abstract

Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), the light house for rural people, is an innovative science based institution, which undertakes vocational training of farmers, farm women, and rural youths, conducts on-farm research for technology refinement and organizes frontline demonstrations to promptly demonstrate the latest agriculture technologies to the farmers as well as the extension workers. The study was conducted in Dharwad district of Karnataka and KVK, Dharwad was purposively selected. Further, a sample of 40 respondents who were influenced by the three most important income and employment enhancing interventions namely household enterprise, vermicomposting and seed production were be selected randomly. Thus, in all, the sample consists of 120 respondents. It was clear that respondents were found in high adoption category with respect to vermicelli (62.50%), vermicompost production practice (60.00%) and seed production practices (37.50%).