Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

Artificial insemination in livestock is a skill oriented training programme and plays a significant role to alleviate poverty and generate employment opportunities for educated unemployed youth in rural and semi-urban areas. The present study was undertaken with the objectives to assess the impact of training on knowledge gain about artificial insemination technician as a self-employment. The training programme on artificial insemination was focused on youth who have interested in self-employment. Detailed training on different parameters of artificial insemination in context to insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, and selection of healthy animals, vaccination and deworming was imparted to a total number of 20 participants in one batches. The impact of the training was assessed by pre and post evaluation testing in terms of improvement in knowledge for different parameter.