Training is a planned and systematically organized effort to increase and update knowledge, improve skills, inculcate attitude, and strengthen capabilities and capacities of individuals so that they would be more productive, effective and meaningful in their pursuits. Training is a plan, procedure or mechanism for meeting the goals of individuals as well as organizational mandate. It is a systematic development of attitude and behaviour pattern required from an individual in order to perform a given task or job adequately and effectively. Training management is the process to carry out different activities under three different phases, namely planning phase, implementation phase and evaluation phase. These activities involve training needs assessment, training plan development, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and follow up of training programmes by the trainers to bring desirable changes in the behaviour of trainees in the stipulated time frame.In spite of its crucial importance in agricultural development, training has not been systematically studied to understand its various management facets and their contribution to training effectiveness. With this background, the present investigation was carried out with the following specific objectives: i) To study the profile characteristics of the trainers and their training management abilities and ii) To study different dimensions of training management in agricultural training organizations.

Low productivity in food grains, vegetable and fruit crops worldwide is the major cause of climate change. Increasing temperatures limits the water availability, flooding and salinity hamper the sustainable horticultural production. Changing climatic scenario leads to the crop failure, reduced production, poor quality produce and more incidences in pests and diseases makes food grain, vegetable and fruit production makes unprofitable. Droughts and soil salinity are major factors makes temperature worsening in horticultural production. Therefore, need arises to use appropriate climate resilient technologies and approaches to ward off various new insect pests, diseases and hitherto MANAGEMENT OF FIELD AND HORTICULTURAL CROPS UNDER CHANGING CLIMATIC SCENARIO 35unheard stresses and increase the productivity to feed the global population without compromising on the quality of the produce. A holistic climate resilient technologies consisting of mulching with crop residue management which helps in soil moisture conservation. Proper drainage due to heavy rains can be avoided by adoption of raised beds in vegetable crops. New genotypes tolerant to high temperature, droughts, salinity and conventional and non-conventional breeding techniques are essentially required to meet these challenges.