2024, Vol. 7, Special Issue 1

author(s)
Jayalaxmi B Pawar, Surekha Sankangoudar and Uma Kulkarni

abstract
Tomato can be called as “Poor Man’s orange” as it is rich in food nutritive value; 100 gm fresh tomato contains 3.5 gm carbohydrate, 0.98 gm protein, 0.50 gm B carotene, 0.35 mg iron and 10-100 mg ascorbic acid. The problem of loss during uncertainities can be controlled by adapting suitable scientific method of value addition and establishing proper post-harvest management may fetch remunerative prices. Therefore the present study was carried out to assess the knowledge level of farm women involved in tomato farming before and after value addition tomato training programmes with a sample size of 150 in five talukas of Kolar district. It was indicated that about 79.00 per cent of the respondents found in low category of knowledge level before interventional programmes where as 80.00 per cent of them were found in high knowledge category after the interventional programmes on value addition. The computed (‘t’) value was 80.64 which is positive and highly significant (p<0.01). The variable organisational participation, extension contact, social and mass media participation and training exposure exhibited positive significant relationship with knowledge gain at 5% level of significance. The results also revealed that, Srinivaspur taluk had significantly greater influence of value addition training programmes on respondents gain in knowledge. Around one forth of the respondents were preparing tomato chutney and twelve per cent of them preparing tomato gojju at home level. Therefore simple cost effective and easily available equipments may be designed and fabricated for large scale production of value added products of tomato.