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International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2018, Volume : 6, Issue : 5
First page : (668) Last page : (673)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-6917

Impact of Training Programme on Farm Women Involved in Food Enterprise in Hassan District of Karnataka

Shivashankar, M.¹*, Revanna, M. L.² and Ravi, Y.³

¹University of Agriculture Science GKVK UAS Bangalore 560065
ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Hassan
²Department of Food science and Nutrition College of Agriculture
³University of Agriculture Science Dharwad, ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: shivubrunda@gmail.com
Received: 3.06.2018  |  Revised: 13.07.2018   |  Accepted: 19.07.2018  

 ABSTRACT

Agriculture and Food processing sector is the backbone of India’s economy in terms of income, employment generation and ensuring food and nutritional security. The strength of Indian food industry lies in the availability of raw materials, flexibility of product mix, consumer awareness for safe and nutritious foods and well trained technical power. With economic liberalization, there are opportunities as well as challenges ahead, for this growing sector. Indian food industry can step forward through entrepreneurship, innovative approaches on technological and marketing aspects. In the process of entrepreneurship women face various problems associated with entrepreneurship and these problems get doubled because of her dual role as a wage earner and a home maker. Multiple roles of women entrepreneurs, Knowledge are operationally defined as the body of understood information about recommended nutrition practices by the respondents. Formulated 20 statements related to basic health and nutrition concepts. After the nutrition education programme for one month, the post test on health and nutrition knowledge and practices was conducted to the women (n=60) in sample group by using the same questionnaire developed to assess the health and nutrition knowledge and practices. Overall knowledge level of the farm women respondents about the nutritional aspects depicted in the more than half of the respondents (53.33 per cent) were having low knowledge on nutritional aspects. Nearly one third of the respondents had medium knowledge on nutritional practices. More than ten per cent (16.67 per cent) of the farm women respondents had high knowledge on nutritional practices after training programme more than half of the respondents (farm women) had medium knowledge followed by one fifth of the farm women (23 per cent) had low and high (21.67 per cent) knowledge on nutritional practices

Key words: Entrepreneurship, Nutritional practices, Economic liberalization

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Cite this article: Shivashankar, M., Revanna, M.L. and Ravi, Y., Impact of Training Programme on Farm Women Involved in Food Enterprise in Hassan district of Karnataka, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.6(5): 668-673 (2018). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.6917