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ArticleItem Open Access Analysis of extent of participation of farmers and their families in brooder management activities of commercial poultry farm(Peer Reviewed Journal, 2015-08) Mathialagan, Perumal; TANUVASA study was conducted at the Namakkal district in Tamil Nadu to understand the extent of participation of poultry farmers and their families in brooder management and the technical inventories associated with it. A sample of 42 poultry farmers was surveyed using an interview schedule and data were analysed using appropriate statistical tools. The results revealed that the major level of participation was from the family head followed by his wife and labour. The role of head could be more as the activities needs constant supervision. The technical inventory for the brooder activities were available for all brooder activities. Extension personnel and Technology developers felt that the inventories were sufficient. While for the farmers it was not so, indicating that study has to be done to understand the reason for the gap developed between the farmers and extension personnel and technology developers.ArticleItem Open Access Developing a cumulative scale for measuring the performance of self-help groups in rural areas(Peer Reviewed Journal, 2015-08) Devaki, Kannappan; Mathialagan, Perumal; Sabarathnam, VE; TANUVASConsidering the growing significance of self-help groups for women empowerment, a scale was developed to measure the performance of self-help groups in rural areas by using Guttman scale method. The present study was conducted in five blocks of Kancheepuram district with a sample size of 100 women to measure their performance. For the purpose of this study, a variable was operationalized to measure the performance efficiency of SHG’s in rural areas in varying degrees of favourableness or unfavourableness. A total number of 34 indicators were finally selected and arranged randomly under eight dimensions in the scale consisting of 3-5 indicators in each dimensions. A two point response of agree and disagree were used as response categories. The co-efficient of reproducibility for each dimension was worked and overall co-efficient of reproducibility was found to be 0.991. Hence it can be accepted as very good scalogram. The relationship between responses of members of SHG’s and officials of SHG’s were found to have a positive and significant correlation.