Constraints faced by training institutes in enhancing core competencies of extension personnel in kerala: An analytical study

Training is progressively being recognized as a chief device to build up competencies and to advance performance in diverse fields. It is one of the chief activities of the agricultural extension system that consumes large proportion of the resources (time, budget, etc.). Hence, the present study was undertaken to assess the constraints of training programmes as perceived by the trainees representing from three training institutions: Community Agro-biodiversity Center-CAbC (working under an NGO), State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute -SAMETI (working under State Department) and Central Training Institute- CTI (under State Agricultural University) Which conducted four different training programmes related to core competency development during 2017–18. Fifteen trainees for each training programmes were selected randomly with a sample size of sixty from each institute making one hundred eighty trainees as total sample size. Freidman test was used to determine the severity of the constraints by using mean rank. Social constraints, economic constraints and personal constraints were the most severe constraints as perceived by the trainees of CAbC, CTI and SAMETI, respectively.