The Impact of Developmental Programmes on the Nutrition Awareness of Farm Women

In recent years greater attention is being given to developmental programmes related to rural women in India. These programmes having multiple dimensions are being implemented with the idea of enhancing the family income. One of the important developmental programme that has been implemented since 1982 is WYTEP -- Women Youth Training and Extension a Danish assisted project in Karnataka. WYTEP has emphasis on agricultural development which in turn is expected to contribute for better living standard and welfare of the family. At present the programme offers three types of training programmes for farm women viz. 10 days Institutional Training Programme 5 days Link Workers Training 2 days Pre-seasonal training programme at village level (1995). Since inception of the WYTEP programme the FTI in Bangalore has trained as many as 5106 farm women under Institutional Training and around 3991 farm women during pre-seasonal training programme organized at village level. (excerpt)