Budbud, Burdwan

16.8.2011
Burdwan district is situated nearby Damodar river. Here land is suitable for rice cultivation.
On the way to Durgapur highway, there is Krishi Vigyan Kendra located at Budbud. KVK is engaged in agricultural research and dissemination of knowledge through in house and field training. Dr. Rahman is the senior scientist and in-charge of Krishi Vigyan kendra, Budbud.
We contacted him for collection of data from two villages - KVK adopted and KVK non-adopted village.

Me, Ms. Suchandra Ghosh, project linked person and Dr. Rahman went to Burdwan on 16th August, 2011. Dr. Rahman extended full support to arrange accommodation in the campus and collection of data from 16-17th August.

In both villages, farmer meeting was held in local club room. Dr. Rahman initially talked to local people about the proposed meeting. After meeting, we arranged lunch for all the participants.

Farmers in the KVK adopted village are more aware of new technology in crop production. Here farmers themselves are engaged in sowing seeds whereas few farmers in non adopted village are engaged in sowing. Former depends on labour as well as own effort where as later depends on labour. Does it mean that knowledge facilitate role enacting ?

I expected presence of more labourers and bargadars or share croppers. Few labourers attended the meeting. It appears to me that meeting with only sharecroppers or with labourers are more important so that my sample will be more distributed.

Farmers of both villages follow both organic and inorganic cultivation. Non-adopted village farmers were more confused about new technology adoption.