Better Fulfillment of The Training Needs to Tribal Farmers: Problems and Suggestive Measures for Soybean Cultivation

Sanjeev Verma

Krishi and Pashu Vigyan Sanhay, Mahatma Gandhi Gramoday University, Satna (India)

ABSTRACT: India has one of the largest concentration of tribal population in the world. According to the 2001 census, the scheduled tribal population was 24.53 percent of the total population. In India, Central India (Madhya Pradesh) has one state, which have highest number scheduled tribal and contributed 18.54 according to census 2001. The tribes lives mostly in hills and dense forest areas, which are not easily accessible. They are mainly backward, poor, illeterate and indebted. The present studies cover the basic point by identification of problems and suggest ways and means for better fullfilment of the training needs by the tribal farmers. Above all the basic aim was to make suggestions to narrow down the gab between tribal and non-tribal people. The data reveal that cent percent of the tribal farmers reported, that they never get any type of training. This indicates towards a very serious problem of communication gap. About 99% of the farmers told that they have less contact with the extension workers. This also implies that something went wrong with the extension functionaries. Lack of proper guidance and non-availability of inputs were expressed by the 88.89 and 76.69 farmers respectively. On the basis of results of the survey some of the suggestive measures are presented.

KEYWORDS: Tribal farmers; Scheduled tribes; Soybean cultivation

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