Role of NGO in knowledge and economic improvement of farmers

The aim of this paper is to analyse and asses the contributions of an NGO named Ramakrishna Ashram for the development of farmers. The information regarding the NGO intervention on occupation, employment, income and growth in Agriculture of the farmers was collected in a three point scale i.e. frequently, occasionally and never assigning scores 2, 1, and 0 respectively. The change in farmers has been compared with control group through simple score analysis. Attempt has been made to classify the farmers on the basis of economic improvement. The significance of the change has been tested through't’ test. Similar findings have been observed by Lewis (1993) where he revealed that NGOs were bringing the home - stead - based - income - generation - successful activities like poultry rearing, paddy husking and vegetable gardening to bring the people into the main stream development in Bangladesh. Ghosh and Pandey (2001) observed that farmers who were exposed to training of NGO-(KVK) had higher productivity of rice, higher cropping intensity and higher net income