Perception of Farmers on Varietal and Technological Diversification Efforts of KVKs

Food scarcity and hunger are escalating in India giving an alarm for food security measures. Government of India started a Mission on Food Security in 2007 through KVKs. Pulses which are most consumed food by both vegetarians and Non-vegetarians has the nutritional capacity more than cereals. These pulses having comparative advantage over other crops in irrigation requirement and cost of cultivation, can be cultivated as intercrop. Hence pulses can be viable food to tackle nutritional scarcity. To promote pulse cultivation Government of India introduced Cluster Front Line Demonstration CFLD-Pulses programme through Krishi Vigyan Kendras ( KVKs). Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Farm science center) is entrusted with task of demonstrating and disseminating latest varieties and technologies to encounter food and nutritional scarcity in the country. KVKs in the selected sample area were conducting CFLD since 2015-16 and it becomes necessary to assess the effectiveness of the KVKs in successfully performing the demonstration and farmers perception on the efforts of KVK scientists. The present study is done to assess the perception of farmers on the effectiveness of KVK in varietal and technological diversification efforts.