Training Need Assessment of Orange Farmers in Wokha Nagaland, India

A research on Training Need Assessment of Orange farmers was conducted in Wokha district, under Nagaland State, the 16th state of India. Wokha district in Nagaland regarded as the land of plenty has wide variations in agro-climatic situation which proves to be favourable for the cultivation of a wide variety of horticultural crops. Total area under Orange cultivation in Wokha district during the year 2017-18 was 680 ha while the total production during the year 2017-18 was 5950.00mt. Three blocks viz., Wokha, Bhandari and Wozhuro were purposively selected. Two villages each for Orange from the above blocks were selected randomly. Furthermore, 15 farmers growing orange from two selected villages were randomly selected making a sample size of 120 respondents. Training Need of Orange farmers was done based on their degree of knowledge level on cultivation practices and the study concluded that training was needed on the importance of application of manures and fertilizers; Irrigation and water management and in crop protection technology. It was also found that, the farmers needed to be oriented with scientific knowledge and technologies of the art and science of growing oranges so as to realize maximum return from their orange orchard.