A Study on the Effectiveness of Training Programmes in the Promotion of Inland Fisheries in Kerala

The yield from marine capture fisheries is showing a declining trend year after year. Therefore, the Inland fisheries have to play an important role in providing rich food for poor people. The expansion of inland fish production will depend upon many factors like development of necessary infrastructure and marketing facilities and easy availability of required inputs. But the most important factor is the need for a system of information transfer from the research and development centres to the farming households. A gap exists between the plans and projects of concerned authorities and the implementation of these by the farmers in the production and marketing practices. This problem can be solved to a great extent, by arranging training programmes to the farmers. But the studies for measuring the effectiveness of training programmes are very few in number. Here, this study propose to analyse the effectiveness of training programmes in the adoption of production and marketing practices of fresh water and brackish water farmers in Kerala. The results of the study reveals that effectiveness of training programmes is more in brackishwater farmers and recommends to the authorities that special efforts should be taken to strengthen its effectiveness in fresh water farming.