Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kathua

Farmers Training Programmes

Farmers Training Programmes
KVK Kathua has conducted 199 numbers of trainings covering 5589 trainees, including farmers, farm women, rural youth etc. engaged in agriculture and allied fields namely crop production, horticulture, fisheries, animal husbandry, agricultural engineering, agro-forestry and home science etc. These trainings covered variety of topics dealing with all the components of agriculture and allied field i.e. seed to seed, soil heath and fertility management, water management, crop management, plant protection, kitchen garden, horticultural nursery, vegetable and fruit production, Livestock Production & Management, Fish production, value addition, food processing, marketing, planting material production etc. The list of discipline wise farmers' trainings conducted by KVK Kathua during the last five years is presented in Table 14.

Table 14: Discipline wise Farmers' trainings conducted during 2013 to 2018

S. No.	Thematic Area	No. of Trainings/ No. of Farmers participated										Grand Total
		2013-14		2014-15		2015-16		2016-17		2017-18		Grand Total
		T	P	T	P	T	P	T	P	T	P	T	P
1	Crop production	7	189	9	260	11	320	5	159	3	137	35	1065
2	Horticulture	7	173	14	332	9	226	9	264	4	94	43	1089
3	Soil heath and fertility management	2	60	3	72	2	69	2	62	1	33	10	296
4	Livestock Production & Management	2	32	3	74	3	121	4	128	6	118	18	473
5	Home Science	4	116	8	233	6	150	3	65	1	26	22	590
6	Plant Protection	5	143	7	203	9	239	10	288	10	321	41	1194
7	Capacity building & group dynamics	3	101	3	116	4	130	5	120	6	188	21	655
8	Production of Inputs at site			1	25	2	30			1	32	4	87
9	Agroforestry	4	120							2	52	6	172
	Total	34	934	48	1315	46	1285	38	1086	34	1001	200	5621

(T= no. of trainings, P= Participants)

Outcome of Capacity Building Programmes for Farmers

The capacity building programmes organised by KVK has resulted in enhanced knowledge and awareness of farmers on latest agricultural technologies. Some of the major quantifiable outcomes of the capacity building programmes being organised by KVK Kathua are presented below:

Adoption of Leaf Colour Chart by more than twenty six percent (>26%) rice growers.
Application of zinc in Paddy has been adopted by more than thirty five percent (>35%) growers.
Adoption of Soil Test Based fertilizer application, especially in rice and wheat crop.
Adoption of optimum seed rate in maize crop, resulting in reduction of wastage of costly hybrid seeds and thus enhances farmers' income.
More than eighty percent (>80%) farmers have adopted high yielding and rust resistant wheat varieties.
More than Thirty percent (>30%) of the vegetable growers have started using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to control insect pests in vegetables and field crops.
Complete adoption of Weed management practices in pulses, such as Gram, Black gram and Lentil.