Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development
  • Year: 2022
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 1

Exploring the Vertical Impact of Farmer’s Footfall at Krishi Vigyan Kendra to fulfill Farmer’s Agricultural based Technical Information Thrust

  • Author:
  • Sarvesh Kumar1,*, M.K. Bankoliya2, Pushpa Jharia3, R.C. Sharma4
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Published Online: Jun 18, 2022
  • Page Number: 169 to 174

1Scientist (Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology), JNKVV, Krishi Vigyan Kendra-Harda-461331, Madhya Pradesh

2PA (Plant Protection), JNKVV, Krishi Vigyan Kendra-Harda-461331, Madhya Pradesh

3PA (Plant Breeding & Genetics), JNKVV, Krishi Vigyan Kendra-Harda-461331, Madhya Pradesh

4Senior Scientist & Head, JNKVV, Krishi Vigyan Kendra-Harda-461331, Madhya Pradesh

*Corresponding author email id: sarveshkvkharda@gmail.com

Online Published on 18 June, 2022.

Abstract

The agricultural development is backbone of rural development that is possible through strong interventions of transfer of agricultural technologies imparting both extension personnel and farmers as well. The most of the farmers visited KVK for seeking the technical knowledge related to field crops (1458, rank I) this was prominently depends upon the cropping pattern (soybean-wheat/gram) of the district followed by horticultural crops. The maximum footfall was made by farmers in the year 2020 (807, rank I), the productivity of major crops get enhanced during study period like Wheat by 500 kg/ha, Chickpea by 869 kg/ha, Soybean by 100 kg/ha, Pigeonpea by 665 kg/ ha and Summer greengram by 325 kg/ha respectively. Hence it my briefed that farmer’s footfall at KVK and its technical intervention had positive vertical impact on the profitability and productivity of growing crops in the Harda district of Madhya Pradesh.

Keywords

Agriculture, Footfall pattern, Horizontal impact, Information need, Productivity, Profitability, Vertical