Relationship between Selected Characteristics of Farm Women with Training Need in Dairy Farming

The present study on relationship between selected characteristics of farm women with training need in dairy farming was undertaken in Kalmeshwar tahsil of Nagpur district of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state with sample size of 100 dairy farm women from 15 villages. Data were collected on personal, socio-economic, psychological and communicational characteristics of respondents with the help of pre structured and pretested interview schedule. Majority of the respondents were in middle age group with education level up to high school, belonging to small farmers category, engaged in agriculture and dairy. having annual income between Rs. 90,001 to 2,50,000/- , with medium level of social participation, belonging to joint family, having high level of extension contact with medium herds and having medium category of economic motivation. In relational analysis age of the respondents had negative and significant correlation with their training need, while annual income, herd size, social participation and extension contact were positively correlated with their training need, Whereas education, land holding, occupation, family type and economic motivation had non-significant correlation with their training need.