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Subject: Agricultural Extension × Author: Parvathy, S × Start date: 1987 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Participation of women in agricultural development programmes under people`s plan in Thiruvananthapuram district
    (Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, 2000) Parvathy, S; KAU; Sobhana, G
    The study entitled Participation of women in Agricultural Development Programmes under People's Plan in Thiruvananthapuram district was undertaken to study the extent of participation of women in planning implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Agriculture Development Programmes in People's Plan, perception of women about People's Plan campaign attitude of women towards People's Plan programme and and to identify the constraints as perceived by women and women office bearers while undertaking this programme. The study was conducted in eight grama panchayath of Thiruvananthapuram district selected randomly. A sample of two hundred respondents were selected using a mu l t i s t ag e random sampling. Data were collected through well structured and pretested interview schedule. Majority of rural women (64.37%) had medium extent of participation in planning while 67.57 per cent office bearers had high participation in planning. Great majority of rural women (98.7%) were low in their participation in implementing and majority (67.50%) of women office bearers were in high participation category. Around fifty two per cent of rural women having low level of participation in monitoring and evaluation while bearers extension orientation, achievement motivation, training and leadership propensity had positive significance with their perception. Annual income, economic motivation, innovation prone- ness. achievement motivation, training of rural women had positive and significant relationship with their attitude toward People's Plan. No variable was significantly correlated with attitude of office bearers about People's Plan. With respect to extent of participation of rural women revealed that economic motivation innovation proneness achievement motivation, training, level of aspiration, mass media participation leadership propensity and self confidence was significantly related to extension orientation, achievement motivation, training and leadership propensity had positively significant relationship with perception of women office bearers. Leadership propensity, annual income and self- confidence had positive and significant relationship with extent of participation of women office bearers. The stepwise regression analysis revealed that economic motivation, leadership propensity, training, extension orientation, mass media participation, annual income, level of aspiration, political orientation, age and self confidence contributed 36 per cent of variation in perception of women while in case of office bearers 63 per cent of variation in perception was contributed by variables like achievement motivation, extension orientation, leadership propensity and education. innovation proneness, Variables like economic motivation and selfconfidence contributed only 15 per cent variation in the attitude of women whereas occupation, economic motivation, innovation proneness, achievement motivation and leadership propensity contributed 16 per cent variation in the attitude of women office bearers. Twenty five percentage variation in extent of-participation of rural women in ADPs under pp was explained by economic motivation, achievement motivation, training, leadership propensity and selfconfidence and in case of women office bearers variables like marital status, innovation proneness, achievement motivation, training, level of aspiration, leadership propensity, and self confidence contributed 65 per cent variation in extent of participation. The important constraint perceived by rural women was political interference in the selection of beneficiaries under People's Plan Campaign and that of women office bearers was non involvement of all members in implementing the programme. Spearman's rank order correlation revealed that there was no agreement with rural women and women office bearers in the order of ranking.