1Junior Scientist, AICRP on Women in Agriculture, College of Community Science, AAU, Jorhat-785013, Assam
2Retired Professor, Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, College of Community Science, AAU, Jorhat-785013, Assam
Impact of Mushroom production training on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Rural Women and their Empowerment of was conducted in Assam. For the study 100 rural women were randomly selected from the operational villages of five selected KVKs, where 50 respondents were participants of the vocational training on Mushroom Production and equal numbers were nonparticipants. Personal interview was conducted using a knowledge test, one attitude scale and interview schedule for collection of data. The findings reflect that highest percentage participant respondents had medium level of knowledge on Mushroom production and highest percentage had moderately favourable attitude. Regarding extent of adoption, highest percentage respondents fall in medium level of adoption. Participant respondents had more knowledge, better level of adoption than the nonparticipant respondents. Around 54.00 per cent respondents had started mushroom production for income generation and out of this, 55.56 per cent earned less than Rs. 500 whereas 29.63 per cent could earn Rs. 501 to 1000. Regarding level of empowerment, 50.00 per cent acquired high level of empowerment from earlier 24.00 per cent. Among the participant respondents, average economic empowerment was 65.03 which increased up to 76.73 and psychological empowerment had a very large improvement from 39.71 to 68.67 per cent whereas among the nonparticipants the highest gain was observed in economic empowerment which was from 66.22 to 71.03per cent. The findings reflect that vocational trainings organized by KVKs are instrumental in increasing the income of the trainees as well as their level of empowerment in different dimensions.
Impact, Mushroom training, Knowledge, Attitude, Adoption, Empowerment, Rural women
