Impact of training cum awareness programme on knowledge level of grassroot extension workers on millet

Impact of training cum awareness on millet

Abstract

Millets the “nutri-cereal” plays significant role in food and nutritional security of developing countries like India due to their farmers friendly nature having the ability to grow in hostile climates with numerous health benefits. Of course, its importance and utility are not well versed to most of the people of Assam. Looking into its importance and nutritive value, awareness as well as training programmes have been conducted by the Krishi Vigyan Kendras. A total of 120 numbers of respondents were selected for the present study from Jorhat district of Assam. From the study it was observed that knowledge scores were improved significantly after exposure to training cum awareness programme. The overall knowledge score was increased from 24.01 to 39.32 after attending the programmes. Variation in knowledge score of the respondents was also found to be reduced after attending the programmes. It was observed that skewness and kurtosis values remain almost similar in respect of pre and post exposure except in case of knowledge on millet as nourishing cereal in which kurtosis value was recorded to be 3.761.