Knowledge Level of the Farm Women about Improved Food Grain Storage Practices

In order to study the knowledge level of the farm women, 120 farm women were selected randomly from Raigad district of Konkan region. The special designed schedule was used for collection of data. The data were collected for the year 2009. The qualitative data were quantified using suitable statistical tools. The data regarding knowledge about improved food grain storage practices revealed that three fifth (60.00 %) of the respondents had medium knowledge. While 17.50 per cent and 22.50 per cent respondents had low and high level of knowledge, respectively. Almost all the farm women had knowledge of prevention of food grain from moisture (100.00%), control measures for stored grain pest on pulses (100.00 %) followed by preventive control measures for stored grain pest (99.16%). Only few respondents had knowledge about precautions taken at the time of use of fumigants (11.67 %) and percentage of the moisture in food grain at the time of storage (6.67%).