Creation of self employment through coconut tree climbing at ariyalur district

The Krishi Vigyan Kendra across the country is making relentless efforts to develop entrepreneurial and self employment skills among the rural youth. The ICAR KVK of Ariyalur District is imposing special emphasis in this line and conducted the six days practical training on climbing of coconut trees using climing device to 160 trainees with the financial assistance of coconut Development Board, Cochin during the year 2017 to 2020. The impact study conducted by the KVK, Ariyalur among the 100 ex-trainees showed that ninety percent of the trainees using the climbing device for climbing of Coconut tree both on their own trees and as a profession to earn income. As this training involves more practical exposure and easiness of climbing device facilitated the trainees to become professional climbers. By these trainings eighty three person became tree climber and thereby a mandays of24,500 per year created to the youth members. They could earn a sustained income of Rs.22,500/month and secured their livelihood. The correlation analysis of profile characters versus extent of adoption by the respondents also showed that education (0.575**), farm size (0.457**), social participation (0.356**), risk bearing capacity (0.543**) and motivation orientation (0.648**) had highly significant positive impacts over extend of adoption of climbing device for coconut tree climbing.