New Delhi, Nov. 3 -- The final-year students of Amrita School of Agricultural Sciences, Coimbatore, under the Amrita University, conducted a Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) at Sokkanur Village in Coimbatore recently, as part of the Rural Agricultural Work Experience (RAWE) Programme.
The programme was aimed at creating a platform for interaction between students and farmers, and to understand the real-life challenges being faced by farmers in rural agriculture sector and their livelihood systems.
The PRA aimed to assess the existing agricultural and social conditions of the village through the active participation of the farming community. Various participatory tools were employed during the exercise to collect information and analyze...