Adoption Percentage of Azolla Production: A Post Training Evaluation
Ganesh Das *
Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Coochbehar-736 165, West Bengal, India.
Suraj Sarkar
Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Coochbehar-736 165, West Bengal, India.
Sanjoy Kumar Das
Cooch Behar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Coochbehar-736 165, West Bengal, India.
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Abstract
The awareness for azolla sp (Azolla pinnata) cultivation was created among the rural people in eastern zone of India by Coochbehar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, West Bengal by conducting residential and non-residential training programme on successful azolla production. The training was conducted during January, 2015 to June 2015. The purpose of this study was to identify the adoption percentage of azolla trainees and its distribution among the different independent variable selected for the study. The study was conducted on the respondents of Coochbehar district, West Bengal during December, 2015 to January 2016. The research design was followed in the study was survey research method. The sample size of the study was 200. The dependent variable of this study was adoption and independent variables were age, gender, education and caste. The descriptive statistics like frequency, percentage, range were used for the investigation. This study had shown the relation of the adoption of the azolla production with the different independent variable.
Keywords: Adoption, azolla, training, awareness, trainees, residential, non-residential