Knowledge Gain through Bee Keeping Training Programme

Saina Nehwal Institute of Agricultural Technology, Training &Education, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar organized eight training courses on bee keeping during the year 2017–18. In order to assess the impact of these courses on knowledge gain of trainees, pre and post training evaluation were conducted by developing a questionnaire comprising of general information and background of the participants and information related to various aspects of bee keeping. It was observed that mostly male candidates belonging to younger age group and who dropped their education at secondary or senior secondary level come forward to adopt beekeeping as an enterprise. More than half of the respondents were from farming background including nearly 2/3^rdof marginal to small and about 1/5^thof landless farmers. Majority of the respondents used to contact extension experts and also used mass media regarding information. The t-raining programmes proved very effective and resulted in remarkable increase in knowledge of trainees in all aspects of beekeeping. It was concluded that school dropouts, landless, marginal to small farmers can be promoted for adopting beekeeping as an enterprise through organizing various training programmes as these proved very effective in increasing the knowledge which is helpful to start and flourish beekeeping.