Ganesh Das1* and Sarthak Chowdhury2
1Department of Agricultural Extension, Palli Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan,
Birbhum 731 236, West Bengal, India
2Department of Agricultural Extension, Palli Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan,
Birbhum 731 236, West Bengal, India
email: ganesh.ext@gmail.com
Received-06.01.2021, Revised-17.01.2021, Accepted-28.01.2021
Abstract: Farm Science Centre or Krishi Vigyan Kendra is the agricultural extension centre of India. Farm Science Centre plays an important role in providing different agricultural services to farm women. But a few studies were found on the role of the Farm Science Centre on knowledge development of farm women. Keeping this in view, a study was conducted on the role of Farm Science Centre on agricultural information network output among the farm women. The study was conducted in the northern part of West Bengal with help of an ex-post facto research design and multistage random sampling technique. It is observed that majority of the farm women received training services from the Farm Science Centre followed by technical support. It is also observed that the agricultural information network output level of farm women was significantly influenced by Farm Science Centre.
Keywords: Farm Science Centre, farm women , Krishi Vigyan Kendra
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