Study profile of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of KVK

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the specific objective of “Profile beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of KVK”. For the study, KVK Aurangabad was purposively selected for present study as it is one of the oldest KVK in Aurangabad district of Marathwada region. There are nine talukas in Aurangabad district out of which three talukas were selected purposively for the study. Six adopted and six non-adopted villages with same ecological situation were purposively selected for the study. From each adopted village 15 beneficiaries were selected randomly and 15 non-beneficiaries from each non-adopted villages. Thus total sample size 180. Ex-post facto research design was adopted in this study. For this study the variables taken namely Education, Annual income, Extension contact, Economic motivation, Social participation, scientific orientation, Mass media participation, and Cosmo politeness showed significant relationship between the beneficiaries from adopted villages and non-beneficiaries from non-adopted villages at 0.01 per cent level of probability. The variables namely Age, Farming experience, Land holding showed non significant relationship between beneficiaries from adopted and non-beneficiaries from non-adopted villages at 0.05 per cent level of probability.