Adoption of Entrepreneurial Activities and Scientific Management Practices by Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Livestock Tribal Farmers of Kargil (Ladakh)

The term training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills. Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kargil organized employment generating and skill development based training programme in livestock sector and evaluated the impact of the technology based trainings acquired by the tribal farmers. The study revealed that out of 260 trainees who participated in the employment generating training programme, 66.53 per cent beneficiaries adopted the technology whereas, out of 226 trainees who participated in skill development trainings, 69.46 per cent beneficiaries adopted the technologies. The highest adoption in the said training programme was found to be that of clean milk production and the least was adopted for vaccination in livestock. A good number of women folk also participated, to gain the knowledge and adopted the technologies. The study encouraged building capacities of livestock farmers through informal trainings especially in the areas of diseases management, feeding management, value addition of milk, deworming, vaccination and poultry farming, pashmina harvesting, spinning of wool etc. so that they can face challenges of the enterprise, boost their farm size and income.