Abstract

India has emerged as world leader in fruit and vegetable production, with a total production of 69.5 million tonnes of fruits and 140 million tonnes of vegetables. However, as per estimate more than 20–30% of total production of fruit and vegetables is lost due to spoilage at various post-harvest stages (Payal, 2011). The present studies were conducted under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna Project on "Value addition in horticultural crop through capacity building of women in Fatehabad district of Haryana". Three villages, namely, Bhuthan, Salamkhera and Dharnia were selected mainly as fruit and vegetable growing areas. Ten processed horticultural products were selected for dissemination through intervention programme. Impact studies in terms of knowledge gain, attitudinal change and skill acquisition were found 51.71%. Perceived feasibility was observed on five attributes viz., relative advantage, physical and cultural compatibility, simplicity/complexity and triability. Gain-in-knowledge was calculated for 13 parameters.