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With the impetus on entrepreneurial development in semi-urban and rural areas to solve the threatening unemployment crisis, women entrepreneurs have a major role to play. Women are found equally capable and given the right encouragement and support, they are bound to contribute in abundance towards the upliftment of the small scale and tiny sector.

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Millets are of minor importance in the west but a staple food in the diets of African and Asiatic people. Their agricultural importance arises from their hardiness, tolerance to extreme weather and could be grown with low inputs in low rainfall areas. With this background the Farmers Field School programme was conducted in the Patrehalli village of Tiptur taluk, Tumakuru district, Karnataka, India. Totally 25 beneficiaries were selected for the programme and systematically implemented with technical sessions on improved production practices, value addition, processing, branding and marketing. The result reveals that, There was significant change in the soil nutrient was observed after effective management of nutrient during cropping season based on soil test analysis report in the initial stage. With this, there was a reduction in soil pH from 6.9 to 6.27, Electric Conductivity (pH) from 0.62 to 0.37, Organic Carbon percentage increased from 0.19 to 0.24. 68 percentage of Original Research Article