1Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture Extension and communication, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut
2Professor, Department of Agriculture Extension and communication, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut
5Associate Professor, Uttar Pradesh Council of Agriculture Research, Lucknow
6Scientific affair, Uttar Pradesh Council of Agriculture Research, Lucknow
Online published on 31 March, 2021.
The present study was conducted in Saharanpur and Hapur districts of Western Uttar Pradesh to know the effectiveness of extension methods. The study revealed that before exposure of different extension methods, about 66.87 per cent vegetable growers had medium knowledge of vegetable cultivation and 34.81per cent vegetable growers were unskilled regarding package of practices of vegetable cultivation. The vegetable growers gained about 81.50 per cent knowledge by the treatment of training + demonstration + literature and 76.25 per cent gained skills by the treatment of training + demonstration + literature. The effect of replication (treatment) on knowledge level of the vegetable growers was higher of training + demonstration + literature (35.00%), ranked in first and the same trend was found in skills improvement. It was found that the training + demonstration + literature was the most effective treatment. The vegetable growers were found in enhancement from 5.63 per cent to 23.63 per cent after exposure of different extension methods in the category of high level of knowledge, this means 319.71 per cent knowledge increased in this category. After exposure of different extension methods, the 100 per cent vegetable growers were found skilled regarding vegetable production technology, i.e. nobody was unskilled after exposure of different extension methods.
Area, knowledge, production and productivity, skill, vegetable growers
