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International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology (IJARET)
Volume 11, Issue 10, October 2020, pp. 1769-1780, Article ID: IJARET_11_10_168
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ISSN Print: 0976-6480 and ISSN Online: 0976-6499
DOI: 10.34218/IJARET.11.10.2020.168
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CAPACITY BUILDING OF RURAL FARM
WOMEN OF ASSAM, INDIA THROUGH
INTERVENTION PROGRAMME ON
HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTION
TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE
HORTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Pritimoni Gogoi Phukan
Child Protection Officer, Department of Social Welfare, Government of Assam, India.
Manju Dutta Das
Professor, Department of Extension & Communication Management,
College of Community Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, India.
Minerva Saikia Baruah
Retired Professor, Department of Extension & Communication Management,
College of Community Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, India.
ABSTRACT
The researcher conducted the research study as in the state of Assam. Two agro-
climatic zones of a country, such as the Upper Brahmaputra Valley Zone and the Lower
Brahmaputra Valley Zone, were selected for study in the six agro-climatic zones of
Assam. Selected One district of the each selected agro-climatic region, namely the
community of Sivasagar and chose the section of Kamrup (Rural) at random. Two sub-
divisions were chosen for each district, one block for each selected sub-division, and
three villages for each selected block were chosen randomly. Twenty-five (25) rural
women, most of whom were involved in fruit and vegetable harvesting, were chosen as
respondents by random sampling technique. As a result, I choose a total of 300 rural
women as respondents for the study, and the collection of data was carried out using a
standardized interview schedule. The study found that the majority of rural women have
lower levels of knowledge in aspects such as nursery breeding, land planning,
processing practices and fertilizer application. Five intervention programmers were
organized for rural women on various aspects of horticultural crop production
technologies, which were observed through input from post-intervention research using
interview schedules conducted just after completion of the intervention programmer and