Study on the Socioeconomic Profile and Knowledge Level of Farm Women about Soybean Processing Techniques

The present study was conducted on 100 farm women to examine the impact of training programme on knowledge level of farm women about soybean processing technologies. The respondents were trained at KVK Uttarkashi in different aspect of home Science technologies. Pre and post training knowledge score were calculated and analysed the data with the help of paired't'test and correlation studies. Significant differences were found among pre and post training mean score of all the aspect of the training. The study revealed that majority of respondents (72%) had medium level of knowledge while 20 per cent of the respondents obtained higher level of knowledge and 8 per cent had low level of knowledge score related to different aspects of precision farming technologies. The attributes viz. education (r=0.2307), annual income (r=0.1807) and social participation (r= 0.1968) had positive and highly significant correlation with knowledge of respondents, however, age and marital status were found negatively correlated with the knowledge of respondents.