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ThesisItem Open Access Usefulness of Package Programme as Perceived by the Farmers of Bulsar District(Agricultural Extension Department, N. M. College of Agriculture, Navsari, 1972-06) Naik, Harshad C.; Patel, N. CThesisItem Open Access A Study on Perception, Decision Marking and Participation of Farm Women in Dairy Occupation(Extension Education Department, N. M. College of Agriculture Gujarat Agricultural University Navsari, 2014-07) Savajibhai, Shiroya Maheshkumar; Patel, G. RLivestock sector is a prominent sector among agriculture and allied sectors in India. India is the world's largest milk producing country with a sharc of about 14 per cent in world milk production. In the dairy development map of India, Gujarat occupies a place of pride. Women are considered to be pioneer in all sorts of development. The clllltrihution of ''''linen in agriculture is estimated to about 50-60 per cent. In many places. entire livestock management is looked after by WOmen. Women play an important role in animal husbandry activities as manager. decision makers and skilled workers. Rural womcn contribute a ~ share of more than 75 per cen! in animal husbandry operations like feeding, milking and sale of milk. The knowledge, perceplion. skill of the limn women and their participation in decision making certainly affect their efticiency in work and in the development of dairy enterprise. It was, therefore, felt necessary to determine the perception. decision making and extent of pal1icipation of the farm women in dairy occupation. Keeping this in view. the present study entitled "'\ STl'IlY ON PERCEPTION. IlEClSION MA)';I:"I(; ANIl PARTlCl!',\TlO:"l OF FAR~I , WOMEN IN DAIRY occurA TlON" was und~naken in Navsari and Chikhli talukas of Navsari district of Gujarat Stat~. Objectives of the study I. To study the personal and socia-economic characteristics of farm _. 4. women. To study the knowledge of larm women about dairy occupation. To study the perception of larm women about dairy occupation. To study the involvement of larm women in decision making about ~ dairy occupation. S. To know the extent of panicipation of farm women in dairy occupation. 6. To study the relationship between personal and socio-economic characteristics of limn women with their perception. decision making and extent ofpm1icipalion in dairy <'ccupalion. Research Illrthoclolo~-\.' The present study was conducted in randomly selected 10 villages of Nav'sari and Chikhli talukas l)f Navsari districl. ;\ ranlh"" sample of 100 lill'lll women li'om 10 villa-ges \V'ae seicClcd It)r the slud." , The data wcre collected wilh the hdp of inlerview schedule nv- conducting ~ personal interview. For the measurement of independelll and dependelll v'ariables. appropriate scales developed and adopled by the other research scientists were used with due modifications. The st3tislic.ll tools used for the analysis of the data were percentage. mean. sl3ndard deviation and correlation coefficient.ThesisItem Open Access The Personal Characteristics and Attitude of the Officers Working on Taluka seed Multiplication Farms of the Gujarat State Towards Their Job(Agricultural Extension Department, N. M. College of Agriculture, Navsari, 1972-06) Trivedi, Jayantilal C.; Pandya, D. N.ThesisItem Open Access Value-Orientation ond Job Preference of Under Graduate Agriculture college Students(Agricultural Extension Department, N. M. College of Agriculture, Navsari, 1975-08) Solanki, Gorakh Kashinath; Pandya, D. N.ThesisItem Open Access A Study on expert System Working a Kvs in Gujarat State(Extension Education Department, N. M. College of Agriculture Gujarat Agricultural University Navsari, 2010-07) Kadam, Mahesh Shivaji; Pandya, R. D.The development of agricultural is integral part of economic development of country. Generally, developments of agricultural requires resources one, well approachable system which collect the technical message from the research station and second, disseminate to grass root level and should work to eliminate the constraints. In this views government of India had lunched various agricultural developmental projects, programme and schemes. In that KVKs, one of the important organization which work at district level. The success of these KVKs mostly depends upon quality and capability of their experts. The experts are one who knows how to transfer the technologies to grass root level; how to act as source and compile feed back for technology refinement, and help to buildup the confidence in the fanning community. It was observed that the experts are playing key role in technology transfer and success of those technologies. Keeping this view in mind the study was planed with following objectives. OBJECTIVES 1. 2. To study the personal profile of experts working at KVKs. To know the role perception of experts working at KVKs. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 1"1 To study the role performance of experts working at KVKs. To study the relationship between personal profile of experts working at KVKs and their role perception. To study the relationship between personal profile of experts working at KVKs and their role performance. To study the constraints faced by the experts working at KVKs. To seek the suggestions to overcome the constraints METHODOLOGY The present investigation was conducted on experts working at KVKs in Gujarat. An ex-post facto design was adopted for this study. List of KVKs was collected from Directorate of Extension Education, NAU, Navsari. The Gujarat has 25 KVKs. In all out of 120 experts were working and out of them 104 experts were selected for the study. A personal interview method was used to collect the data from the respondents. Out of sixteen independent variable eight were measured through empirical scales developed by eminent scientist with due modification and for remaining a structured schedules were specially developed for the study. Whereas, to measure the two dependent variables the structured schedule were also developed. The means, standard deviation, rank and correlation of coefficient were used to analyze the data. FINDINGS 1. More than half of the experts were in the young age group, had master degree, membership in one organization, higher level of knowledge about their subject, favorable attitude towards duty, medium level of achievement orientation and medium decision making ability. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. " . III More than two fifth of the experts possessed lower level of experience, sometimes used the source of information, medium level of innovativeness, medium level of scientific orientation, medium level of value orientation, medium level of overall modernity, medium level of group motivation, medium level of technical efficiency and had medium capacity building. The majority of the experts had moderately perceived their overall role. More specifically, majority of them had moderately perceived their role as planner, as an innovator and as a communicator. While, as an advisor and as trainer they perceived it in a good manner. The majority of the experts had moderately performed their overall role. More specifically, majority of them had moderately performed their role as trainer, as planner, as an advisor, as an innovator and as a communicator. The education, social participation, source of information, innovativeness, scientific orientation, achievement orientation, attitude towards duty, knowledge abollt subject, overall modernity, technical efficiency, value orientation, decision making ability, group motivation and capacity building were found positively correlated with the role perception of experts working at KVKs. The education, social participation, innovativeness, scientific orientation, achievement orientation, overall modernity, technical efficiency, and knowledge about 7. 8. • IV subject, value orientation, and attitude towards duty, decision making ability, group motivation and capacity building were found positively and significantly correlated with role performance of experts working at KVKs. The majority of the experts had experienced the constraints as non availability of vehicle for on campus training, lack of co-operation from collogues, multifarious duty and non availability of need based and location specific research. The majority of the experts had narrated the suggestions were; availability of vehicle for on and off campus training, organize multifarious activities on need and time, location specific recommendation should be conducted and authority should be developed mutual understanding in staff.ThesisItem Open Access Impact of Ayacut Development Scheme(Department of Agricultural Extension N. M. College of Agriculture Navsari, 1976-07) Adhyaru, Premsager H.; Pandya, D. N.The role of agriculture in the economic development of our country cannot be underestimated as the largest segment of our population is wedded to agriculture. However, it is a wellknown fact that we have been facing food shortage ever since the day of our becoming an independent demoncratic contry. This is because of low level of adoption of improved fann practices by our fanners. It is a proved fact that yield in multiple can be obtained if scientific teChniques are put to use on each and every farm of our country. In suppOrt of this, 1 Linewood stated:- " Incre/lse in India t s agricul tural production must come primarily from the adoption of more productive agricultural pI-actices by millions of individual farmers." In order to increase the agricultural production, concerted efforts need to be made to shift the present traditional farming to advanced scientific farming. This can be done by adoption of new improved teChniques • - Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed2 , present President of India and the then union minister for food and agriculture, also rightly pointed outThesisItem Open Access INVOLVEMENT OF LOCAL LEADERS IN EXTENSION PROGRAMMES(Department of Agricultural Extension Gujarat Agricultural Un iversity N. M. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, 1974-06) Mahajan, Rajaram Kashiram; Pandya, D. N.ThesisItem Open Access INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR ABOUT ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ENTERPRISE HOLDERS OF FARMER’s INTEREST GROUPS (FIGs) OF NAVSARI DISTRICT(Agricultural Extension Dept., NMCA, NAU, Navsari, 2016-06) Munni Kumari; Timbadia, C. K.Livestock rearing is an integral part of agriculture in India. The Indian dairying enterprise has made a remarkable progress in the last three decades. Gujarat has strong stricture of milk co-operatives and playing significantly in milk collection and marketing in India. Information as an enterprise is important for the production process especially for agricultural production and marketing of agricultural produce. Cattle farmers have varying needs that range from information on the disease status of animals which is very crucial and can contribute to a large number of herd die offs when ignored or pose as a threat to the wellbeing of humans. Cattle farmers also need information on good animal husbandry practices, new emerging technologies, market related information and information on agriculture policies. The assessment of the information needs and seeking behaviours of cattle farmers is essential for assisting them to access and use information resources required for high production levels and equally to assist the relevant authorities in charge of disseminating information to come up with better agricultural implementation strategies. Keeping this view in mind, the present study entitled “Information seeking behaviour about animal husbandry enterprise holders of farmer’s interest groups (FIGs) of Navsari district” was conducted with following objectives. OBJECTIVES 1. To study the profile of animal husbandry enterprise holders of FIGs. 2. To ascertain the sources of information used by the members of FIGs related to animal husbandry enterprise. 3. To identify the information seeking behaviour of the member of FIGs about animal husbandry enterprise. 4. To study the relationship between profile of animal husbandry enterprise holder of FIGs and their information seeking behaviour. 5. To study the constraints faced by the animal husbandry enterprise holders of FIGs in collection of information. 6. To suggest the future strategies to overcome the constraints faced by the animal husbandry enterprise holders of FIGs in collection of information. METHODOLOGY Navsari district has six talukas viz., Chikhli, Gandevi, Jalalpore, Khergam, Navsari and Vansda. The list of FIGs obtained from Project Director, ATMA, Navsari and from that the FIGs classified under animal husbandry selected. Random sampling method applied to obtain 120 respondents from the obtained list. An Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. In line of the objectives, the interview schedule was prepared and respondents were interviewed at their home and farms. Twelve independent and two dependent variables were considered and measured through appropriate scales and specially developed structured schedules for the present study. The collected data were analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, and correlation coefficient (r). A ranking technique was used to analyze the constraints and suggestions. FINDINGS 1. Majority of the FIGs members were in middle to old age groups, had above secondary level of education, belonged to category of small family size, had medium to higher level of animal husbandry experience, had active social participation, had small size of land holding, had medium to large size of livestock possession, had low to medium level of innovativeness, possessed medium to higher level of risk orientation, scientific orientation and economic motivation. 2. Majority of the FIGs members seek information from progressive farmers among personal localite. In case of personal cosmopolite majority of FIGs members seek information from agricultural assistant and agriculture officer. Among mass media majority FIGs members seek information from kisan call centre. In Extension education methods FIGs member seek information from field visit. 3. Majority of the FIGs members had medium to high level information seeking behaviour. 4. Education, social participation, livestock possession, risk orientation and scientific orientation of FIGs members found positive and significantly association with information seeking behaviour. 5. Out of different constraints lack of awareness of adequate information was perceived by the FIGs members as main constraint followed by distance from university, unavailability of information centers, unwillingness of extension officers; poor government facility and inadequate expert contact respectively.ThesisItem Open Access FARMERS’ PERCEPTION ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND THEIR ADAPTATION IN SOUTH GUJARAT(Agricultural Extension Dept., NMCA, NAU, Navsari, 2016) Laxman, Manjunath H.; Bhatt, M.R.Agriculture is the mainstay of Indian economy and about 65 per cent of Indian population depends directly on Agriculture. It has to support almost 17 per cent of world population from 2.3 per cent of the global geographical area and 4.2 per cent of world’s water resources. The economic reforms, initiated in the country during the early 1990s, have put the economy on a higher growth trajectory. Though its contribution to the overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country has fallen from about 30 per cent in 1990-91 to less than 15 percent in 2011-12, followed by Agriculture, forestry & fishing registered a growth of 3.8 per cent in Quarterly1 Five Year15, lower than the 4 per cent growth registered in Quarterly1 Five Year 14 (Anonymous 2015). With unpredictable weather, farmers keep changing crop management practices by growing resistant varieties and be prepared for constant change in the farming practices. Climate change is an emergent property of complex ecological and environmental systems, which in turn are influenced by complex human systems, including cultural, social, economic and political systems. The level of awareness of climate change therefore needs to reflect that complexity and be multidimensional and multifaceted, rather than focusing only single variables such as carbon dioxide emission. Above all, climate change awareness needs to be the kind of practical awareness which can help learners deal with uncertainty and make decisions that are aligned both with the most reliable available information and their own ethical values. Impacts of climate change are diversified and need to be understood, so as to workout pragmatic strategies to mitigate ill-effects of climate change. With this background, this study has been designed to understand farmer’s perception about the changes in climate and adaptation measures initiated due to climate change. Considering this factual information a study on ‘Farmers’ perception about climate change and their adaptation in South Gujarat’ was proposed with following objectives. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1. To study the profile of farmers. 2. To assess climate change as perceived by the farmers. 3. To study the adaptation measures initiated by the farmers due to climate change. 4. To understand constraints experienced by the farmers for adaptation to climate change. 5. To study the relationship between the independent variables and dependent variables. 6. To develop extension strategies for better adaptation measure of climate change. REVIEW OF LITERATURE A brief account of literature reviewed was presented fewer than six heads viz., selected characteristics of the farmers, perception, adaptation of farmers towards climate change, relationship between selected characteristics of respondents and their perception and adaptation regarding climate change, opinion of respondents overcome the same. METHODOLOGY Navsari and Valsad districts of South Gujarat were randomly chosen for the study. For this study 160 farmers were considered as a sample and termed in this study as respondents. To know the various characteristics of the respondents a structured schedule was developed. For measuring age, education, size of family, family type, occupation, annual income, size of land holding, social participation scale developed by pandya (2010) with slight modification, followed by farming experience scale developed by silvakumar (1988) with slight modification, followed by economic motivation, risk orientation scale developed by supe (1969) with slight modification and lastly mass media exposure the structure schedule was developed. A multi stage random sampling ranking technique was applied to measure the opinion of the respondents. The data were collected with the help of well-structured, pre-tested, Gujarati version interview scheduled through personal contact and data were compiled, tabulated and analyzed to get proper answers for objectives of the study. The statistical tools used were percentage, mean score, standard deviation and coefficient of correlation value. FINDINGS Majority of the respondents were found in middle age group, educated, small size of family with good economical condition. Moreover majority of their occupation was Farming +animal husbandry +Service with small land holding and were participating/ involving in financial contribution or raising fund for community. Also having medium level of economic motivation with medium mass media exposure. Further, over all perception regarding climate change was moderate and overall medium level of adaptation. In case of perception about the climate change farmer, Age is positive and significant and Education is positive had highly significant correlation. Other side with adaptation towards climate change Age, education, family size, family types were positive and significantly correlated.