Mushroom cultivation in Meghalaya has emerged as a promising avenue for rural income diversification, leveraging the region’s favorable agro-climatic conditions and growing market demand. This study employs a k-means cluster analysis to assess the entrepreneurial orientation of 2...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2025/v31i73299
Mushroom cultivation is an emerging agri-business venture that requires technical knowledge at various steps of its cultivation. At every stage of a capacity development intervention in mushroom production, assessing the knowledge of participating growers is essential. An attempt...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2025/v47i53419
Aim: The study aims to determine how intra-household gender dynamics affect women’s vulnerability to climate change at the household level in the West Tripura district. Study Design: The study followed an ex-post facto research design, with data collected through a survey and ana...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2025/v15i24737
The Indian economy relies significantly on agriculture, employing around 42.3% of the workforce and contributing 18.2 % to the GDP in the financial year 2023-24. However, the sector faces challenges due to the fragmentation of farmlands, with 89.4% cultivated by small and margina...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2025/v47i23275
The present study aimed at analysing the usage of ICTs by the agrarian youths of state Manipur, India. The locale of study was Imphal-West district of Manipur, from where 120 respondents have been randomly selected from six villages of the two sub-divisions viz., Patsoi and Wango...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i630391
Food security with increased and sustained production of the major cereal crops in India is the need of the hour. The role of farmers as informal extension agents has been depicted in many recent studies emphasising the need for studies on network linkages between the farmer comm...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v36i130218
The Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) are very important organisations for promoting agricultural development at the district level through the various trainings and other development programmes they offer. One way of knowing how effective these KVKs are in catalysing district agricul...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530169
Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) serve as a frontline extension system and as knowledge resource centres of agricultural technologies for supporting farmers in improving their agricultural production and livelihood. They are vital in contributing to agricultural development in the co...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/44433
Climate change is one of the greatest global challenges of our time. Impact of climate change can be felt in many areas including agriculture. Agriculture is primary occupation of a human being. Among all the human activities, agriculture being the mostly weather dependent is phy...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37591
The study examines how women’s roles and capacities influence nutrition-sensitive farming interventions across Thadnongiaw, Kdonghulu, and Liarkhla villages of Ribhoi District of Meghalaya, surveying 47 members organized into Farmer Interest Groups (FIGs) under a Farming System f...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2025/v47i123941
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted agricultural extension systems worldwide, highlighting systemic vulnerabilities while accelerating digital transformation. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of post-pandemic extension services, emphasizing sustainability, incl...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2025/v25i71355
To assess the expertise of rubber growers, a knowledge test was created. The majority of the 37 questions were created by endorsing reasonable thinking above root memorization and to distinguish between competent rubber growers who are less competent. The results of the sample re...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i11608
Bhattacharjee Suchiradipta, Atanu Sarkar, S. M. Feroze & Loukham Devarani·Advances in Research·2018
As fall out of transforming land use pattern coupled with the factors like resettlement, exposure to alien environment and effort to adjust with the new socio-agro-economic order, based upon their capability and resource endowment status, the tribal youth of North East Indian sta...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2018/44136