Attitude towards Krishi Vigyan Kendra

Present investigation was carried out in five KVK's under State Agricultural Universities of Marathwada region of Maharashtra state to know the participation of farmers, their attitude towards KVK's, constraints in adoption of KVK recommended practices and suggestions given by the respondents. Keeping the objectives in mind, the the list of beneficiaries was obtained from KVK which acts as beneficiary population. Fifty beneficiaries from each course were selected by using n^th number method from respective beneficiaries. Same number of non-beneficiary respondents were randomly selected from outside the population. Thus, 150 beneficiaries and 150 non-beneficiaries formed the sample for the study. The respondents were personally interviewed with a well-structured and pre-tested interview schedule. From the study, it was observed that majority of beneficiaries had medium level of participation in the KVK activities. More than three fourth of the beneficiary were having moderately favourable attitude towards KVK. Lack of knowledge, costly inputs, unavailability of materials and labours, were constraints noted by the farmers in their adoption of KVK recommended practices. They also replied with suggestions like, organize timely and frequent demonstrations, give technical know how of improved practices. Data were analysed by using mean, percentage, frequency and 'Z' test for comparison.