~ 2552 ~ International Journal of Chemical Studies 2020; 8(1): 2552-2555 P-ISSN: 2349–8528 E-ISSN: 2321–4902 IJCS 2020; 8(1): 2552-2555 © 2020 IJCS Received: 04-11-2019 Accepted: 06-12-2019 Diksha Sharma Ph. D. Scholar, Swami Keswanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India BN Kalsariya Associate Professor, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh, Gujarat, India Sonika Sharma Research Scholar, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India Devendra Kumar Meena Assistant Professor, Department of Extension Education, COA, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India Corresponding Author: Diksha Sharma Ph. D. Scholar, Swami Keswanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India Relationship between training needs of farm women and their selected independent variable about improved animal husbandry practices Diksha Sharma, BN Kalsariya, Sonika Sharma and Devendra Kumar Meena DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/chemi.2020.v8.i1am.8650 Abstract Animal husbandry is an integral component of Indian agriculture supporting livelihood of more than two- thirds of the rural population. Many of the important tasks in animal husbandry are performed by women besides their responsibilities as home makers and caring of animals is considered as an extension of domestic activities. Keeping this in view, present study was thought to be taken out with measure the correlation between Socio-personal and socio-economic characteristics of farm women regarding improved animal husbandry practices studied in saurashtra region of Gujarat state, India because Saurashtra region has significant contribution of local cows (45%) among the different region of state., the present investigation was conducted in Junagadh and Gir-somnath district of Saurashtra Region of Gujarat state was purposively selected. Two talukas selected from each selected districts for present study. Three villages were selected purposively from the each selected taluka having more population of cattle and buffalo, by selecting 10 from each selected village were taken by using random sampling technique with a condition that the farm women has been rearing animals on their farm at least 3 years or having herd, total 120 farm women were selected for research purpose. Out of fourteen independent variables, six variables viz. social participation, extension participation, mass media exposure, adoption, attitude and risk orientation had negative and highly significant correlation with training needs of farm women about improved animal husbandry practices. Education had negative and significant correlation whereas, age, size of family, dairy experience, size of land holding, herd size and economic motivation had non- significant association with training needs of farm women. Annual income was there that showed positive and significant correlation with training needs of farm women about improved animal husbandry practices. So, it can be concluded that those variables who had establish significant influence on training needs must be reckon while planning any training programme related animal husbandry practices. Keywords: Animal husbandry, farm women, training needs, independent variable Introduction Animal husbandry is an integral component of Indian agriculture supporting livelihood of more than two-thirds of the rural population. Livestock contributed 16 per cent to the income of small farm households as against an average of 14 per cent for all rural households. It also provides employment to about 8.8 per cent of the population in India. The livestock sector alone contributes nearly 25.6 per cent of value of output at current prices of total value of output in agriculture, fishing & forestry sector. The overall contribution of livestock sector in total GDP is nearly 4.11per cent at current prices during 2012-13 [1] . Rural women are also responsible for collection, preparing dung cakes an activity that also brings additional income to poor families. Evidently, rural women are involved in almost all livestock related activities. In spite of active involvement of women in different animal husbandry activities, lack of exposure and assess to new technology has restricted women to show their full potential for the growth of livestock sector. In the process of transfer of technology, training of farmers, farm leaders and rural youth plays an important role. Farmer’s training is a non-formal process of education which educates the farmers in a group on some specific topic at a particular place Shrivastva et al., (1996) [8] . So, by providing suitable need based training to the farmers we can improve their skills, leading to better adoption of new technologies.