Thursday, 13 October 2022

Employment Opportunities through Raising of Horticultural Nursery – A Case Study | Chapter 2 | Research Highlights in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 3

 One of the veritably important enterprises for tone- employment generation is the horticultural nursery. It can produce a good income and employment generation. It's a success story of Md. Shahadat Hossain, Katajhar Pathar, Barpeta quarter of Assam. originally, he couldn't develop his nursery although he was veritably keen to establish a horticultural nursery before he associated with Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Barpeta, Assam during 2005. He could understand the technologies necessary for the development of a horticultural nursery after he passed vocational training at KVK, Barpeta. The case study was conducted with the ideal to know the profitable benefit through caregiving of a horticultural nursery. The findings showed that in the first four times, he could get a veritably lower net return. In the first time, he earned a net return ofRs.8240.00 with B- C rate1.26. But, after getting specialized guidance from Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Barpeta, his income position grew up steadily and during 2021- 22, he could get a net return ofRs. with the B- C rate3.35. At present, he has developed a good number of quality grafted, concentrated planting accoutrements of high value fruit crops like avocado, mango, dragon fruit, litchi, malta, apple, mousambi, and so on. Besides running his own family, he has given employment to 15 labours and therefore livelihood for 15 families.


Author(s) Details:

Ghana Kanta Sarma,
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Barpeta, Assam Agricultural University, Howly, PIN -781316, Assam, India.

Lipika Nath,
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Barpeta, Assam Agricultural University, Howly, PIN -781316, Assam, India.

Arup Kumar Deka,
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Barpeta, Assam Agricultural University, Howly, PIN -781316, Assam, India.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RHAS-V3/article/view/8403

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