1Ex-Ph. D. Scholar, Department of Agriculture Communication, College of Agriculture
2Prof. & Head & Director Communication, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263145, District-U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand
3Ph. D. Scholar, Department of Agriculture Communication, College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agric. & Tech., Pantnagar-263145, District U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand
Online published on 24 July, 2018.
The women in India like in many developing countries are silent worker, laboring hand from dawn to dusk in the interest of farm and home. Increased attention is being directed towards imparting training in various fields in order to enable farm women to actively participate to take up economic actions. Improvement of skill and employment to women to enable them to become active partners in development has been the focus of broad based extension. No doubt training and education are significance means to catalyze human productivity, organization of training without consideration of gender perspective/sensitivity, gender and physical limitations of women by virtue of social roles described to them once again deprive them from the benefits. Keeping the above in view, an exploratory study was undertaken in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh to find out the preferences of rural women regarding training needs. A pre-structured interview schedule was administered to a sample of 192 respondents selected randomly.
Training, education, women
