Constraints faced by KVK beneficiary farmers in Banaskantha District

Abstract

Modernization of agriculture greatly depends on development of farm and its dissemination. A large number of agricultural technologies are available, but full use of it is not being done in many parts of the country. Thus, there is a big gap in the technology generation and dissemination. Therefore, transfer of technology to the subsistence farmers has been the focus of Indian planners and farm scientists was very crucial. The main aim of establishing KVK was to improve production and economy of farmer. To achieve this objective the KVK arrange a number of training programs and activities on crop production and allied activities. The present study was conducted in all 08 KVK working under S. D. Agriculture university jurisdiction and a list of KVK beneficiaries was collected from each KVK. The KVK has one of the mandates to adopt villages from its jurisdiction and from those villages they call the farmers for training, allot On Farm trail (OFTs) and Front Line Demonstration (FLDs). The beneficiaries were randomly selected of training, FLD and OFT in 20:12:6 in numbers for this study. Thus, 160 participated trainings, 96 beneficiaries of FLD and 48 beneficiaries of OFT were taken so, 304 beneficiaries were selected randomly for the present study.The study covered 18 independent and one dependent variable and appropriate empirical measuring techniques/scales developed for independent variables also resorted.The study revealed that major constraints faced by farmers were: lack of time management for KVK activities, problems in understanding difficult words of new technologies while teaching and sometimes shortage in providing HYVs seeds for KVK beneficiaries were the major constraints reported by the KVK beneficiaries regarding influence of KVK. The important suggestions expressed by the KVK beneficiaries were: give more importance to practical training classes, provide more HYVs seed and scientist should use local words for technical local language.