| Abstrakt: |
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Hassan made an attempt to assess the influence of technological interventions initiated through ‘Village Adoption Program (VAP)’. VAP aims at boosting agricultural production, encouraging farmers to practice more scientific farming, making them to understand the technological options thereby uplifting the socio-economic status of farmers. In light of this, a study was conducted by selecting Rampura village of Hassan district under VAP for three years (2019-2022). Initially, majority of the farmers were lacking knowledge on scientific cultivation practices, improved varieties and different scientific production technologies. After KVK intervention and supply of critical inputs,farmers knowledge and adoption in advanced technologies available in agriculture improved. Farmers expressed that, KVK intervention reduced the drudgery in field operations, increased the knowledge on the animals husbandry and scientific management of crop stand by organizing various training programs, capacity development programs, demonstrations and educative extension materials. Simultaneously, their knowledge on backyard nutritional kitchen gardening increased. Conclusively, a noticeable change in farmer’s awareness, farmers empowerment and capacity building through demonstrations and training programmes with respect to new technologies and utilization of the existing resources effectively were obseved. Crop diversification through improved varieties integrated with animal component resulted in obtaining maximum productivity and profitability of small and marginal farmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
