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Subject: Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education × End date: 2006 × Start date: 2000 × Thesis Type: M.V.Sc. ×
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    EFFECT OF STRESS ON THE JOB PERFORMANCE OF VETERINARY ASSISTANT SURGEONS IN TELANGANA REGION OF ANDHRA PRADESH
    (SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA, 2003) Triveni, G; SUDHAKAR RAO, B(MAJOR); SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE, C; RAMESH GUPTA, B; BHAVE, M.H.V.
    ABSTRACT: Veterinary Assistant Surgeons (VASs) are engaged in transferring technologies to the farming community. In this process the stress experienced by the VASs is multi-dimensional and needs a deep probing. The relation of stress with job performance is complex. The research findings brought out that when stress is not properly coped with, it affects the performance in a dysfunctional style resulting in exhaustion, irritation, ineffectiveness, inaction etc. If properly channelled, results in a feeling of challenge, job satisfaction, creativity and a better adjustment to work and life. Hence, it is considered worthwhile to find out the sources of stress and its effect on job performance of VASs. The present study was conducted following ex-post facto research design and simple random sampling technique taking 30 VASs each from three districts to arrive at total of 90 VASs in the entire Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh state. Questionnaires developed for the study were administered to all the respondents and the responses were scored and analysed using the appropriate statistical tests. The research study revealed that majority of the VASs were middle aged, graduates, possessed small family size, had medium family income, experience, span of control, acquired medium technical knowledge, perceived medium workload, work facilities, average organizational communication, had medium work motivation and medium coordination between line departments. The level of overall stress experienced was to a moderate extent by all the VASs. The major sources of personal stress were lack of time for personal care, performing multiple roles, unfulfilled commitments and increased expenditure. The significant sources of familial stress were working at a far away place from home, financial expectations of relatives, lack of own house and inadequate attention on education of children. A large majority of VASs expressed that attending numerous meetings, work over load, lack of personal growth and attending works other than job responsibilities as the sources of job stress. More than half of the VASs viewed lack of needed facilities at place of work, lack of conveyance for field visits and cumbersome report writing as the sources of organizational stress. Majority of VASs in the study area rated themselves as medium job performers. Stress has shown negative relationship with job performance at a significant level (P<0.01). Stress was correlated significantly (P<0.05) and positively with selected characteristics like span of control and work load perception, while negatively and significantly related with organizational communication, work motivation and coordination (P<0.01). The variables viz., span of control, organizational communication and coordination explained maximum variation in stress of VASs. Job performance of VASs in Telangana region was positively and significantly related with variables like job experience (P<0.05), age, technical knowledge, organizational communication, work motivation and coordination (P<0.01), while negatively and significantly related with span of control (P<0.05) and workload perception (P<0.01). Maximum variation in job performance was explained by four variables viz., span of control, technical knowledge, work motivation and coordination. The major personal coping strategies followed regularly by VASs were taking good balanced diet, listening music, watching T.V. and getting proper sleep. Occasionally, they followed strategies like physical exercise and seeking social support to overcome personal stress. The organizational stress coping mechanisms followed regularly were active involvement in work, time management and prioritisation and effective communication. They also adopted occasionally the strategies like skill improvement and decentralisation to over come their organizational stress.
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    PRIVATISATION OF VETERINARY SERVICES - AN OPINION STUDY
    (SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA, 2003) Ravi kumar, S; VEERA RAGHAVA REDDY, K(MAJOR); SUDHAKAR RAO, B; RAMESH GUPTA, B; BHAVE, M.H.V.
    ABSTRACT : Since independence, in India, the veterinary services have been funded managed and delivered by the public sector. But, in the recent past the Government’s financial resources for the provision of veterinary services have not kept pace with the increased livestock population and production resulting in deterioration of quality of services by the Government agencies. Hence, privatisation of veterinary services is considered as one strategy to improve the effectiveness and quality of veterinary service delivery. In this context, it is thought appropriate to ascertain the opinion of farmers towards privatisation, to identify the veterinary services that are suitable for privatisation and to study the willingness of livestock farmers to pay for the veterinary services and hence the present study was undertaken. Exploratory research design was adopted to conduct the present study in three mandals comprising six villages of Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. A total of 120 farmers at the rate of 20 farmers from each village were selected based on proportionate random sampling technique and subjected for the investigation. The findings emerged from the study were; majority of the farmers were of middle age with low farming experience, primary level of education, medium herd size, medium material possession, medium income, low information seeking behaviour, medium level of innovativeness, high level of economic motivation, medium level of achievement motivation and high level of risk orientation. Majority of the farmers had favourable opinion towards privatisation of veterinary services followed by neutral and unfavourable opinion. Content analysis of the opinion statements indicated that privatisation requires more infrastructure, privatisation provides quick diagnostic services, privatisation of veterinary services assures continuous supply of drugs and other inputs, privatisation increases mutual accountability of farmers and veterinarians and privatisation reduces the financial burden on Government for providing the veterinary services as the five statements ranked as I, II, III, IV, and V respectively among the listed 20 statements. Majority of the farmers identified services like, artificial insemination and pregnancy diagnosis in breeding services; diagnostic services like laboratory diagnosis and radiography; prophylactic services like deworming and vaccination; curative services like medical treatment, major surgical treatment and gynaecological and obstetrical treatment; miscellaneous services like distribution of fodder seedlings and round the clock services as suitable for privatisation. The willingness of the overall farmers to pay for the listed veterinary services on an average were; Rs.14.97 for artificial insemination, Rs.9.14 for pregnancy diagnosis, Rs.19.13 for laboratory diagnosis, Rs.67.14 for postmortem, Rs.17.30 for radiography, Rs.6.62 for deworming, Rs.7.27 for vaccination, Rs.37.56 for medical treatment, Rs.15.72 for minor surgical treatment, Rs.97.70 for major surgical treatment, Rs.74.44 for gynaecological and obstetrical treatment, Rs.7.09 for livestock advisory services, Rs.3 for distribution of fodder seedlings, Rs25.56 for on farm consultancy services, Rs.6.82 for supply of publications, Rs.28.49 for round the clock services, Rs.30.02 for issue of health certificate and Rs.37.33 for issue of postmortem certificate. Majority of the farmers identified, lack of sufficient supply of drugs at the veterinary hospitals, absence of efficient diagnostic laboratories in rural areas, inadequate budget allotment for the provision of veterinary services, non availability of round the clock services and lack of sufficient infrastructure facilities for treating the surgical cases as the five major constraints among the listed seventeen constraints in the utilisation of public veterinary services. Efforts should be made by the Government agencies to mitigate the constraints expressed by the farmers in utilisation of public veterinary services, nominal service charge can be collected for services like minor surgical treatment, pregnancy diagnosis, deworming, vaccination and round the clock services, nominal service charge with subsidy on the cost of inputs supplied can be collected for services like major surgical treatment, diagnostic services, medical treatment, gynaecological and obstetrical treatment and artificial insemination, reasonable charge can be collected for services like issue of health certificate and issue of postmortem certificate and the services like livestock advisory services and supply of publications must be provided at free of cost by the Government. Training programmes should be organised for the Veterinary Assistant Surgeons so as to keep abreast with the latest technical knowledge and also to improve their skills and efficiency was the strategy developed based on the findings of the study.
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    AN ANALYSIS OF SHEEP FARMING PRACTICES IN MAHABOOBNAGAR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
    (SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA, 2003-08) VENKATARAJU, B.B; VEERA RAGHAVA REDDY, K(MAJOR); SUDHAKAR RAO, B; SUDHAKAR, K; BHAVE, M.H.V.
    ABSTRACT : About 40 per cent of population of India, even after four decades of independence continued to be below the poverty line and the intensity of poverty increased as land capability decreased. Thus for survival, farmers have to take up a low investment and low risk vocation like Animal Husbandry, predominantly rearing of small ruminants. For enhanced production of sheep enterprise it is obligatory for the sheep farmers to acquire knowledge and skills to adopt the improved practices of sheep farming. Thus, in this context it was considered worthwhile to take up a research problem entitled “An Analysis of Sheep farming practices in Mahaboobnagar district of Andhra Pradesh”. An ex-post facto research design was adopted. A total sample of 120 respondents from 6 villages in 3 mandals of Mahaboobnagar district was selected by random sampling method. The required data was collected through personally interviewing the respondents with pre-structured interview schedule. The data was analysed by appropriate statistical techniques. The study revealed that majority of the sheep farmers were middle aged, illiterates, had medium experience, possessed medium flock size, and belonged to medium socio-economic status. Most of them had extension contact and mass media exposure to a moderate extent; majority of the respondents had medium change proneness, risk orientation, scientific orientation and level of aspiration. The income and rational decision making ability were to a lower extent among the sheep farmers in the study area. Majority of the respondents possessed medium level of knowledge about sheep farming practices and adoption of the sheep farming practices was to a moderate extent. Independent variables viz., age, experience, education, socio-economic status, flock size, income, mass media exposure and rational decision making ability exhibited positive and significant relationship with the knowledge level of respondents. Extension contact, achievement motivation, scientific orientation, change proneness and level of aspiration showed non-significant relationship with the knowledge of the respondents. Age, experience, socio-economic status, flock size, income and mass media exposure indicated positive and significant association with adoption of sheep farming practices among the respondents. Education, extension contact, achievement motivation, scientific orientation, risk orientation, change proneness, level of aspiration and rational decision making ability showed non-significant relationship with adoption of the sheep farming practices. The findings on the major constraints perceived by the sheep farmers were; (i) Inadequate knowledge on breeding practices and lack of knowledge on the right time of crossing in breeding practices. (ii) In adequate knowledge in preparing balanced feed and high cost of concentrate feeds in feeding practices. (iii) Unhygienic maintenance of farm animals and negligence in care of pregnant animals in management practices (iv) Problem of vaccination undertaken only during the outbreaks and inadequate supply of veterinary medicines at veterinary hospitals in disease control practices. Some of the suggestions for successful adoption of sheep farming practices are; (i) Provision of technical inputs. (ii) Government wastelands should be distributed to the land less sheep farmers for encouraging fodder cultivation. (iii) Educational activities should be further reinforced to increase the knowledge level of sheep farmers on improved sheep farming practices. (iv) Subsidiary facilities should be extended for the purchasing of ewes and rams. (v) Periodical training of the sheep farmers on scientific innovations pertaining to sheep farming should be organized by AHD and ANGRAU.
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    A Study On The Effectiveness Of Veterinary Camps Organised Under Janmabhoomi Programme (JBP) On Livestock Farmers Of Mahaboob Nagar District of Andhra Pradesh
    (SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA, 2002-08) Satyanarayana, Ch.; Sudhakar Rao, B(MAJOR); Subhash Chandra Bose, Ch; Sudhakar, K; Anjanappa, M
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    Gender Analysis In Dairy Farming Activites In Chittoor District Of Andhra Pradesh
    (SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA, 2002-07) Sri Haritha, M; Sudhakar Rao, B(MAJOR); Subhash Chandra Bose, Ch.; Gidda Reddy, P; Anjanappa, M
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    A Study On The Perceived Training Needs Of Veterinary Assistant Surgeons In Mahabubnagar District Of Andhra Pradesh
    (SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA, 2001-11) Srinivas Reddy, P; Sudhakar Rao, B(MAJOR); Subhash Chandra Bose, Ch.; Gidda Reddy, P; Anjanappa, M
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    Documentation And Assessment Of Indigenous Technical Knowledge In Animal Husbandry Practices In Dindigul District Of Tamil Nadu State
    (SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA, 2001-07) Ravi Kumar, R.K.; Sudhakar Rao, B(MAJOR); Subhash Chandra Bose, Ch; Sudhakar, K; M.Anjanappa
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    A STUDY On The Attitude Of Students And Staff On Veterinary Council Of India (VCI) Pattern Of Curriculum In Angrau
    (SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA, 2001-06) Srujana, R; Sudhakar Rao, B(MAJOR); Subhash Chandra Bose, C; Bidarkar, D.K; Anjanappa, M