Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF TRAINING ON ENTREPRENEURSHIPDEVELOPMENT THOUGH SCIENTIFIC MUSHROOM CULTIVATIONUNDER ARYA PROJECT IN KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA OFLAKHIMPUR DISTRICT OF ASSAM, INDIA

Himadri Gogoi*, Prasanta Kumar Pathak, Namrata Kashyap and Jamini Kumar Dutta

Abstract

Mushroom is a highly nutritive food which consumption imparted numerous health benefits; hence now adays demandfor mushrooms has been increasing among people which opens the path forbusiness forfarmers especially for the rural youths. To take mushroom cultivation as a successful enterprise and to earnhigher profit training plays an important role and one must have handful knowledge and skills on it. Thepresent study was conducted to assess the status of knowledge gain and skill development through preand post training evaluation of mushroom cultivation training on the basis of a structured questionnaire.The feedback of the trainees were also taken to bring improvement in the near future. In the present study162 nos. of trainees were selected from ARYA (Attracting and retaining youth in agriculture) villages ofLakhimpur districts of Assam and also the farmers who are associated with the KVK,Lakhimpur andshowed interests in participation on such trainings. Apart from knowledge and skill developments, thefarmers especially rural youths were motivated to develop entrepreneurship by showing the future prospectsand profitability of the mushroom enterprise.