ADOPTION OF VERMICOMPOST PRODUCTION WITH RESPECT SOME SOCIO-ECONOMIC VARIABLE

GANESH DAS¹*, SURAJIT SARKAR², SANJOY KUMAR DAS³, SUJAN BISWAS^4
1Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Coochbehar, 736 165, West Bengal, India
²Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Coochbehar, 736 165, West Bengal, India
³Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Coochbehar, 736 165, West Bengal, India
⁴Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Coochbehar, 736 165, West Bengal, India
* Corresponding Author : ganesh.ext@gmail.com

Received : 12-04-2016     Accepted : 20-04-2016     Published : 14-07-2016
Volume : 8     Issue : 24       Pages : 1478 - 1480
Int J Agr Sci 8.24 (2016):1478-1480

Keywords : Sustainable, adoption, vermicompost, training, awareness, trainees, residential, non-residential.
Academic Editor : S. H. Mane
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : None declared
Author Contribution : None declared

The awareness for vermicompost production was created among the rural people of eastern zone of India by Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, West Bengal by conducting residential and non-residential training programme on successful vermicompost production. Vermicompost contain huge amount of plant nutrients and it’s environmentally sustainable. The training was conducted during January 2015 to December 2015. The study was conducted on the respondents of Coochbehar district, West Bengal during January 2016 to February, 2016. The purpose of this study was to identify the adoption of vermicompost production with respect some socio-economic variable of the trainees. The research design was followed in this study was survey research method. The sample size of the study was 100. The dependent variable of this study was adoption and independent variables were age, gender, education, annual income, land holding and caste. The descriptive statistics like frequency, percentage and range were used for the investigation. This study had shown the relation of the adoption of the vermicompost production with the different independent variable.