STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE AND TRAINING NEEDS OF DAIRY FARMERS IN SHIVPURI DISTRICT OF MADHYA PRADESH

MONA RAGHUVANSHI¹*, SHOBHANA GUPTA², REENA RAWAT³, RAMESH LOHARE^4
1Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, India
²Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, India
³Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, India
⁴Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, India
* Corresponding Author : raghuvanshimona110@gmail.com

Received : 01-06-2021     Accepted : 27-06-2021     Published : 30-06-2021
Volume : 13     Issue : 6       Pages : 10798 - 10800
Int J Agr Sci 13.6 (2021):10798-10800

Keywords : Relationship, Demographic attributes, Training needs, Dairy farmers
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, College of Agriculture, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, Madhya Pradesh, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

The present study was conducted in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh state to find out the relationship between demographic attributes of the dairy farmers and their training needs. Descriptive research design was used and Shivpuri district id selected purposively since the researcher belongs to the place hence, she is familiar with the local dialect of the area. The data was collected through personal interview method with the help of pre-tested, interview schedule, which was prepared on the basis of objectives of investigation and variables. The study reveals that majority of the respondents (58.40%) were in middle age group. They had medium level of annual income, middle socio-economic status, medium extension participation, medium extension contact, medium innovativeness, medium economic motivation and high scientific orientation category, medium dairy experience category and most of the respondents (63.33%) had medium category of size of land holding. However, they belonged to medium level of training needs. It was observed that correlation coefficient in respect of age, size of herd was found not significant with the training needs, while annual income, socio-economic status, economic motivation, innovativeness, were found highly significant with training need, and extension participation, extension contact, scientific orientation, dairy experience was found negatively highly significant with the training need dairy farmers

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