Outreach of 50 watt CRS is about 15 to 20 kms. However, due to plain area with good quality equipments, transmitters and antenna, the outreach of this KVK CRS is about 25 to 30 kms. radius area. This KVK is having strategic location from where five tehsils places are in the radius of 25 to 30 km. This has helped to reach KVK CRS in 5 tehsils out of 14 tehsils of the district.
Ahmednagar district is having 1588 villages with 40.88 lakh population of which 80 per cent are living in the rural area. CRS is able to cover 214 villages of 5 tehsils reaching 8.56 lakh populations which are mostly from the rural area. The district has three agro climatic zones of which one agro climatic zone is of scarcity zone occupies 90 per cent area. The outreach of the CRS is in the scarcity zone of the district. Therefore, technology, weather and other information provided through the CRS suits to all the farmers of the region. It is observed that 16 per cent population are listening CRS broadcast programmes which indicates that due to CRS, KVK is able to reach more than one lakh population simultaneously
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