TRAINING NEEDS OF POTATO GROWERS TOWARDS IMPROVED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY IN UTTAR PRADESH
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Mohit Singh
Deptt of Agricultural Extension Education SVPUA&T,, Meerut
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Dan Singh
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L. B Singh
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V.K Singh
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Satya prakash
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Bhim Singh
Keywords:
Potato growers, priorities of package & practices and preference time of trainingAbstract
The present study was carried out during the year 2024-25 in Uttar Pradesh to know the training needs of the potato growers their preference time, duration, place of training and training of methodology, for this study the data was collected from 192 Potato growers through personal interview schedule. After analyses of data, it was found that agronomical training needs shows higher priorities of improved varieties reported by 59.37% respondents, with mean score of 2.51, after this fertilizer based on soil testing recommendation needs reported by 47.91% of the respondents with mean score of 2.40 and regarding needs of Potato processing reported by 33.85% respondents with mean score of 2.18. These needs were place Ist, IInd and IIIrd respectively. Regarding time of training 46.35% respondents preferred one to two weeks before cropping season start, 64.58% respondents preferred one to three days training, 44.27%, respondents preferred place of training at village level and 47.92% respondents preferred lecture cum demonstration cum tour programme training methodology.
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