Technological empowerment of rural women of assam on improved practices of rice production system through intervention

Abstract

Rural women in Assam play a very significant role in agriculture and allied operations. They are actively participating in all range of agricultural activities including pre and post-harvesting. They are in urgent need of understanding and acquiring new knowledge and skills, so they could contribute more effectively to production process. The present study was conducted to identify the knowledge of rural women of Assam about scientifically validated existing rice production technologies. A multi-stage purposive cum stratified random sampling design was followed covering 400 respondents. Three training programmes and one exposure visit were organized covering different aspects of rice production technology and post harvest processing in which the knowledge of the respondents was found low. The impact of the intervention programme was assessed by comparing the knowledge score before the intervention and after the intervention. The knowledge test was applied at different times with an interval of 30 d.