The present study was carried out to know the effect of Apiculture training programme on rural women. The findings revealed that the trained beekeepers possess higher level of knowledge. Skill and adoption in comparison of untrained beekeepers and there was significant difference in the mean level of knowledge, skill and adoption of trained and untrained beekeepers women. The computed t-value is highly significant in all variables.

Keyword: Apiculture, Training, Knowledge, Skill, Adoption, Effect of training