Year: 2018 | Month: June | Volume 5 | Issue 1
Entrepreneurship Development Through Preparation of Jute Diversified Products and Efficient Marketing
F.H. Rahman* and A.K. Singh
DOI:10.30954/2347-9655.01.2018.4
Abstract:
The output of any research trials or demonstration has no importance if the technology of the trial is not transferred to the grass root level of the community where the product development is done, may it be the large industry or small scale industry. As, Krishi Vigyan Kendra Burdwan under Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres working with the aim of transferring and refinement of technologies to the field level and to the rural communities, it has an important role to play in this context. Krishi Vigyan Kendra Burdwan is working with respect to transfer of technologies in the context of jute production, post harvest and diversified product preparation from jute fibre through field level demonstrations and training programmes. Initiative has been taken for cultivation of jute in Garamba-Bhasapur and Jurjutipara villages of Burdwan district, where farmers were made aware and then motivated towards the cultivation of jute in the year 2010-11 through the field level demonstration where they were not aware much. In the very next year fifty five farmers of the villages started cultivation of jute in an area of 45 ha and got production @ 27-32 q/ha. The jute fibre produced in the village was utilized for preparing different handicraft items. Two vocational training programmes for seven days for 30 trainees in each comprising of rural women and school drop-out girls were organized at different villages to prepare diversified handicrafts from jute fibre. Then most of the trainees formed four Self-Help Groups started preparing different items from fibre where they found good acceptance of their products in different agricultural fairs, exhibitions and shops. KVK, Burdwan facilitated establishment of six shops so far in different places of Burdwan district with the help of NABARD where their JDPs were sold. Most of them had no income before the intervention and now they are getting a good income of Rs. 2500-3000 per month. These interventions helped the rural women and youth earning an additional income and thereby empowering the weaker section of rural folk and increase thesmall scale industries in the particular area.
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