TAILIEUCHUNG - Impact of ATMA (Agricultural Technology Management Agency) in changing knowledge, skill and adoption behavior of farmers in Sikkim

The evaluation of impact of ATMA involve measuring the relationship between farmers’ knowledge, extent of skill with the adoption of better practices or farm technologies, utilization of inputs and ultimately increase farm productivity and profitability and the related improvement in farm. In this respect assessment of knowledge and skill and improvement thereof of ATMA beneficiaries in a particular place as the results of ATMA interventions as well translation of those knowledge and skill in higher level of adoption of farm and animal husbandry technologies is important feedback information for measurement of progress made by the programme. Hence, the present study was conducted purposefully in all four districts of Sikkim. A total of 240 respondents were selected randomly from the participants of ATMA programme as sample for the present study. A pretested and structured interview schedule was prepared for collecting data through personal interview. The data so collected were subjected to statistical analysis using mean, frequency, percentage, index value, t-test etc. and results were interpreted. The findings of the study reveal that after participation in ATMA programme most of the respondents were found to acquire high level of knowledge followed by medium level in agricultural and horticultural farm practices followed by majority of the respondents from livestock production acquire high and medium level of knowledge. It is also found that most of the respondents were having medium and high level of skill about agricultural and horticultural technologies and high and medium level of skill about livestock technologies after participation in ATMA programme. The results obtained from the study also indicate that majority of the respondents were having medium level and high level of adoption regarding agricultural and horticultural farm technologies and high and medium level of adoption of livestock technologies after participating in ATMA. | Impact of ATMA (Agricultural Technology Management Agency) in changing knowledge, skill and adoption behavior of farmers in Sikkim

• Nông nghiệp
• ATMA Agriculture technological
• Management agency
• Changes in knowledge
• Changes in skill and changes
• Adoption of farm
• Grain storage practices
• Farm women
• Adoption level
• Grain storage technologies
• Farm women of Deesa Taluka
• Post harvest technologies
• Improved post harvest technologies
• Maize by farm women
• Farm women of agro climatic zone IV
• Large scale
• Mechanised facility
• Farm families of Udaipur
• Constraints in adoption
• Maize crop faced
• Value addition training knowledge
• Skill adoption agriculture
• Secondary agriculture
• Farm women empowerment
• Health and nutritional practices
• Nutritional practices
• Random sampling method
• Medium extent
• aquaculture projects
• aquaculture
• shrimp farm effluent
• Central Vietnam
• biodiversity
• clam
• clam farming techniques
• processing clams
• clam harvesting
• Panchayat samities
• Bio fuel
• Opportunities and prospects
• Post harvest technologies of maize
• Constraints faced
• Female member
• Global challenges
• Gap in knowledge
• Farm innovations
• General farmers
• KVK system
• Trained farmers
• Adopted villages of KVK system
• Integrated rice fish farming farmer
• Farmer of Ramchandrapuram
• Rice bowl of Andhra Pradesh
• Methods for farm improvement
• Integrated rice fish