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IMPACT OF EXTENSION SERVICES ON KNOWLEDGE OF FARM WOMEN ENGAGED IN VEGETABLE CULTIVATION IN PUNJAB
ISSN: 2277 - 7601
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IMPACT OF EXTENSION SERVICES ON KNOWLEDGE OF FARM WOMEN ENGAGED IN VEGETABLE CULTIVATION IN PUNJAB
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Agriculture and Food Sciences
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1.3
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ICC-0202
Publisher: Kiran Abasaheb More
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IAA.ZONE/2277391547601
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2277 - 7601
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Abstract
Women play a key role in food production and form a large share of the agricultural work force globally. Farm women can create wonders in their society with knowledge gain about different vegetable cultivation technologies through support of extension services. A study was conducted in randomly selected six districts (Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala and Sangrur) of Punjab with sample size of 240 farm women. The study revealed that most of the farm women had somewhat increased their knowledge in farm and post harvest activities of vegetable cultivation as an impact of extension services. The correlation was used to find out the most influencing profile characteristics on level of knowledge of farm women towards vegetable cultivation. The study inferred that, the variables such as extension contacts, social participation, total annual income from all sources had a positive significant relationship with the knowledge o...
