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The study was conducted in Saurashtra region of Gujarat State. A multistage, purposive and random sampling technique was used for the study. Out of eleven district of Saurashtra region, total five districts were selected purposively where cluster frontline demonstration on groundnut crop under National Mission on Oilseed and Oil palm (NMOOP) was conducted by KVKs during last two years. Five districts of Saurashtra region were selected for the study. Two talukas from each selected districts were selected purposively where cluster frontline demonstrations are conducted by the KVKs during last two years. Thus, total 10 talukas were selected for the study. Villages from each taluka were selected purposively where maximum cluster frontline demonstrations are conducted by KVKs. Thus, total 16 villages were selected purposively. The random sampling technique was used for the selection of the respondents. 80 demonstrator and 80 non-demonstrator farmers were selected randomly from selected village for comparative study. Thus total 160 respondents were selected for this study. The data were classified, tabulated and analyzed with the help of frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation and Z value. The analysis indicated that the independent sample ‘Z’ test showed that there was significant difference in the mean values of demonstrator and non-demonstrator groundnut growers in case of adoption of recommended groundnut production technology.

In Indian society, farm women have multi-dimensional role ranging from agricultural and allied activities to domestic activities. The preparation of value-added products is mostly confined to household/village or with in the easy access of farm women. Because the majority of the raw materials are available in the village, it is ideal to start as a rural or village enterprise. As a result of this value addition, rural residents would have a lot of job opportunities. The under employed force in rural areas can be profitably utilized. In this context there is a greater scope to go for value added products or processed food products or ready to eat products which can take care of effective utilization of time by the women folk. A questionnaire- based simple random sampling survey was conducted on 120 farm women of Kheda districts of Gujarat state. The statistical measures, such as SPSS and Microsoft excel were used. nearly three-fifths (59.17 per cent) of the farm women had moderately favourable attitude towards value addition in vegetable crops.