Assessing efficacy of portable public address system during off campus training programmes in Harda district of Madhya Pradesh

The transfer of new proven technology and innovation among farming community is the main mandate of Krishi Vigyan Kendras in India, for which the KVK regularly organizes different kinds of training programmes like trainings for rural youth, for extension personnel’s, trainings for farmers and farm women, trainings for unemployed rural youths, skill development trainings, sangoshthies etc. through on campus and off campus both. Here the success of the trainings or efforts of KVKs depends upon the technological adoption rate and technology replacements rate that may be improve by the farmers if they learns the things seriously, understands the technology gap, and increases their interest in change the present practices. This may be done by quality extension trainings only, for this purpose the efforts were made by KVK Harda to provide off campus trainings programmes to the farmers by using portable public address system which yields very good results in better understanding, time saving in assembling at training spot, increase learning experiences, improves hearings of the message which results in better adoption of new technologies and better production in the district.