An Assessment of Animal Husbandry Training Programme for Rural Youths

The study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of animal husbandry training programme of Krishi Vigyan Kendras in the selected states of India. A total of 120 rural youths who had underwent training in KVK, NDRI, Karnal Haryana and KVK, IVRI, Bareilly, U.P. constituted the sample. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the rural youths owned the dairy stock having medium level of milk productivity ranging from 93.33 to 366.11 lt/animal/month. An increasing trend in the milk productivity was observed after the training programme. For nearly three-fourth of rural youths from both the KVKs, dairying had generated a medium level of annual net income ranging from Rs. 6691.25 to 16111.43 before the start of training. However, after the training programme their annual net income increased to the range of Rs.5069.11 to 24244.19 and most of them were in medium level of annual income. More than three-fourth of rural youths, combindly from both KVKs, had generated a family employment in the range of 332.81 to 625.29 minutes/day before the start of training programme of KVKs. However, after the training programme 73.50 per cent rural youths from both the KVKs had employment generation of medium level ranging from 352.64 to 656.08 minutes/day.