Assessment of improvement in agricultural productivity of villages adopted under Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav program through training

Abstract

Imparting training for capacity building and up scaling of technical knowhow is the
fastest way to improve productivity. Investment on human resources development is
the key for sustainable development. Present study conducted in selected villages
under Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav (MGMG) programme, confirms that scientific and
systematic training has potential to improve productivity not only trained personnel
but also the agriculture production. Training imparted on scientific rice production
has significant yield advantage in all the villages and overall 14.4 per cent increase
in yield were estimated as compare to what yield has been estimated before
imparting this training to the farmers of selected villages. Likewise, in case of wheat
14.0 per cent yield advantage were estimated due to significant impact of training.
Similar types of results were also reported in all the crop based training programme
executed to the farmers of the villages. In case of mustard13.5 per cent yield
increase was notice owing to training imparted to the targeted farmers. 10.3 per cent
and 14.6 per cent yield advantage has been estimated in case of lentil and summer
nung bean only because of scientific training and time to time proper need based
guidance received from scientist. Apart from imparting training, for sustainable
agricultural/ crop production, uninterrupted electricity, availability of quality seeds and
planting materials as well as transport facility, credit and extension services are
needs of hour to boost agriculture production in the selected villages.