Training Needs of Farm Women in Post Harvest Technology

The large number of working women in India are engaged in farm operations either as cultivators or as agricultural labourer. They participate mainly in post harvest activities, like harvesting, grading, storing, processing and preservation of farm products. Therefore, it becomes necessary to train the farm women in post harvest operations. The present study was undertaken in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra to identify training needs of farm women in post harvest technology. The study revealed that most needed areas of training as perceived to be most needed by farm women were methods of safe storage (94 per cent), control measures against storage pests (92 per cent), different storage pests and their nature of damage (88 per cent) and drying period for safe storage (84 per cent).