The KVK aims at technology
assessment, refinement and frontline demonstration of the
technology and its dissemination through training of farmers
and extension personnel. The activities include:
On-farm testing
of agricultural technologies to identify its location –specificity
under various farming systems
Frontline demonstrations
to establish its production potentials
Training of farmers
to update their knowledge and skills
Training of extension
personnel to orient them in the frontier areas of technology
development
The KVK has adopted
an innovative approach of implementing the technology through
a “Target-Group-Based-Modules” approach. The basic
idea behind this is to percolate the benefits of modernization
of agriculture holistically and not reductionistically. Unlike
the conventional method of doing PRA for all, the farmers
are first divided into “Target Groups” and then
appraisal for each group is done. There are many ways one
may define a target group. We have classified the farmers
of each adopted village in terms of socio-economic status,
which is essentially a function of land – holding of
the family. So, based on the land-holding, farmers are classified
into following groups,
Landless farmers and Skilled labourers
Marginal farmers
Small farmers
Semi-medium farmers
Medium farmers (field & horticultural crops & dairy raiser with fish pond)
Medium farmers (field & horticultural crops & goat/pig rearer with fish pond)
Rural youths
Women in agriculture
Common interest group
Depending on the
nature of problem and need of each group problem cause diagrams
are made and intervention points are identified. Then a “Module”
is developed to implement the interventions. One example of
the module of the landless farmers and skilled labourers of
one of the adopted village is depicted below,
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