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Shivam Gour ¹, H. R. Jatav ²

Affiliations
1 College of Agriculture (Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwavidyalaya), Indore (M.P.), IN
2 Krishi Vigyan Kendra (RVSKVV), Ujjain (M.P.), IN

Abstract

This research study was carried out from July 2016 to October 2019 in villege Salakhedi during our READY Programme. This study is part READY (Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana) that applied an integrated frame work for combined crop production, nutritional, food safety analysis in Ujjain Region. Here, The objective of the study was toanalyze the use of participatory rural appraisals (PRAs) with producers and consumers to investigate seasonality, constraints and opportunities in crop production, milk production.The PRAs allowed identifyingseasonal crops and milk production and consumption.A wide range of production constraints were described by producers including insufficient technical knowledge, uncertainty in climatic conditions, poor package practices, poor quality breeds, cattle diseases, lack of capital, feed, water and reliable markets. While food and milk availability had a strong inûuenceonconsumption. The main purpose are to get ourselves exposed in practicing the different PRA tools and to understand the scenario of the village and people’s perception. Also, this research gives us hands-on experience of the Participatory Rural Appraisal activities.

Keywords

PRA(Participatory Rural Appraisal), Crop production, Dairy, Nutrition, READY(Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana).

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