Role of KVKs in Strengthening Livelihood Security of Resource Poor Farm Families of Rural India
2015
Sujit K Nath and H K De
KVKs are the ICAR sponsored district level organisations to test and popularise location specific frontier technologiesand thereby strengthening the rural agro-economic scenario of rural India. Till the end of 2014, ICAR has established anetwork of 641 numbers of KVKs in the rural districts of India to cater the latest scientific needs of the farming communitywhich is in the way of erstwhile lab to land programme. An empirical comparison between various developmentparameters, i.e. socio-economic, occupational, technological and environmental innovations by the resource poor farmfamilies of the adopted villages of KVK, Deogarh of Odisha state and its non-adopted villages in this study. It alsoquantified the gap between adopted and non-adopted villages and observed significant gaps in some important indicatorsi.e. cropping intensity (74.3%), crop diversification (48.7%), coordination among farmers (75.9%), avenues for agroemployment facilities (69%), skill competency (68%) and reduction in migration (78%). In the components ofenvironment protection towards sustainable agriculture, the steps taken by the farmers were found to be inadequate. Theauthor apprehends that the impact of KVK in influencing the majority of farmers in the whole district in terms of adoptionof scientific farming practices may not be very effective.
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