Journal of Krishi Vigyan

Krishi Vigyan Kendra Dindori adopted more than 30 villages in different years to enhance income of the tribal families through enhancing farm profitability, engaging rural youth and farm women in subsidiary occupations and imparting skills in agriculture. Keeping in view the above, 100 beneficiaries and 50 non-beneficiaries were selected in 10 villages during 2021-22. Data were collected on different aspects and scoring was done for comparing the impact of activities in adopted villages. It was observed that a total of 48 per cent of respondents were young aged (up to 35 yrs) and 74 per cent the respondents were belonged to schedule tribe caste. Among them 55 and 48 per cent of the respondents were having secondary school education in both categories i.e., beneficiary and non-beneficiary respectively. Farming was main occupation and having medium technical orientation among beneficiaries; and low in non-beneficiaries. Majority of them had small land holding in both categories, whereas 65 per cent have up to 5 cattle and 40 per cent had up to 2 cattle in non-beneficiaries. Majority (62 %) of beneficiaries were medium to high farming experience and 62 per cent non-beneficiaries had low net income. In respect to adoption of agricultural technologies, 55 per cent beneficiaries grouped in medium adoption level, however 64 per cent non-beneficiaries categorized into low adoption level. Overall adoption quotient found 74.6 and 32.72 for beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries respectively.