Impact Analysis of KVK Activities in Different Adopted Villages of Punjab

Krishi Vigyan Kendras under the aegis of PAU, Ludhiana are working in eighteen districts and conducting various agricultural activities in collaboration with state agriculture and allied departments. These have adopted ninety six villages in different districts of the state. The main purpose to adopt the villages is to enhance income of the rural families through enhancing farm profitability, engaging rural youth and farm women in subsidiary occupations, imparting skill in rural youth in agriculture and selected areas to improve their employability and entrepreneurship and to facilitate improvement in public services infrastructure. One best adopted village by each KVK was taken as sample of the study. Data was collected on different aspects and relative scoring was done for comparing the impact of activities in adopted villages. It was observed that Chatha Nanhera adopted village of KVK Sangrur was the topper in performing extension activities and also jointly shared top position with KVK Patiala in adoption of different technologies/practices. KVK Patiala was most successful in developing seventeen enterprises of Home Science (Preservation, stitching &embroidery, detergent making) in adopted village. Karmuwala village of KVK Ferozepur was leader in entrepreneurship development in vegetable production. The adopted village of KVK Sangrur and KVK Patiala also got almost same score in overall activities performance.