STUDY ON ADOPTION LEVEL OF BENEFICIARIES OF INLAND AQUACULTURE UNDER RKVY PROJECT

S. CHOUDHARY¹*, V.S. PARMAR², H.M. VASAVA³, C.K. TIMBADIA^4
1Department of Extension Education, NMCA, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396 450, Gujarat
²Department of Extension Education, NMCA, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396 450, Gujarat
³Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Chaswad, Gujarat
⁴Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396 450, Gujarat
* Corresponding Author : vparmar801@gmail.com

Received : 09-04-2016     Accepted : 16-04-2016     Published : 28-06-2016
Volume : 8     Issue : 22       Pages : 1435 - 1436
Int J Agr Sci 8.22 (2016):1435-1436

Keywords : Inland aquaculture, Adoption, RKVY, management
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : None declared
Author Contribution : None declared

A fishery in India is a very important economic activity and a flourishing sector with varied resources and potentials. Only after the Indian Independence, fisheries together with agriculture been recognized as an important sector. The inland aquaculture practices are being adopted by the farmers. For the present study Navsari district was selected on the basis of a project “inland aquaculture” was launched the year 2009-2010 by the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, NAU, Navsari with the assistance of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY). It can be concluded that in overall extent of adoption, nearly (59.49 per cent) three-fifth of the beneficiaries had medium level of adoption about the inland aquaculture practices.