Krishi Vigyan Kendra's are the district centers for the improvement in knowledge level of farmers in rural India

Krishi Vigyan Kendra's proved to be one of the option for improvement of knowledge level in farming community of rural India through trainings, On Farm Trials (OFT), Frontline Demonstrations (FLD) and extension activities as a mandate benefiting farmers in improving the livelihood. The Knowledge level experiment was conducted among the farmers of Visakhapatnam district. Mostly sugarcane, paddy and vegetables covers most of the sown area in the district, besides which the dairy and poultry plays an important role in generating income from the agricultural and allied sciences. The knowledge level between the trained farmers of the KVK and non member's of KVK (not availed the facilities of KVK). A profarma containing the subject knowledge on paddy, sugarcane cultivation and for different crops etc. was prepared to compare the knowledge gained by the trained farmers with untrained once. The knowledge gap between trained and non trained farmers in paddy and sugarcane cultivation aspects was around 20% and 28% respectively which resulted in high cost of cultivation for the untrained farmers. It was observed that 46.7% of farmers are having good knowledge on cultivation of Groundnut, Sunflower, Sesame & Black gram cultivation after getting training from BCT KVK whereas, 21.13% of farmers are having good of 25.57% knowledge level in between trained and untrained farmers. Knowledge level of Members & Non members of KVK on Poultry rearing and dairy was also calculated.