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    Feasibility of fruit plant nursery as an enterprise For rural women
    (CCSHAU, 2010) Geeta; Seema Rani
    For assessing the feasibility of fruit plant nursery as an enterprise for rural women, two blocks i.e. Jind and Pillukhera of Jind district were selected randomly. Out of the selected blocks two villages namely Lohachab and Pillukhera were selected at random. A sample of 100 respondents i.e. 50 from each village was drawn and 15 women respondents from each selected village were selected randomly who were interested to undertake training on fruit plant nursery. Various socio-personal, economic, psychological and communication variables constituted the independent variables and knowledge, attitude, skill and acceptability constituted the dependent variables for the study. Data were collected with the help of pre-tested structured interview schedule. The inferences were drawn on the basis of frequency, percentages, paired ‘t’ test mean score and correlation. The study revealed that most of the respondents were of younger and lower middle age group, illiterate, married and having medium family education status, joint family having members (5-6). Farming was their main occupation. The annual income was between Rs. 40,000 to Rs. 60,000 belonging to middle caste with negligible social participation, marginal sized land holding, owning mixed house and having small herd size. Change proneness, risk orientation and economic motivation were of medium level. Most of the decisions in intra family as well as in entrepreneurial activities were taken by husbands followed by joint decisions. Most of the respondents were having low mass media exposure and medium localite source of information and low cosmopolite sources of information were utilized. The general awareness of most of the respondents regarding fruit plant nursery was of moderate level, however, awareness was high at post-exposure level. Maximum number of the respondents of pooled sample found the fruit plant nursery technology culturally compatible, observable, simplicity/complexity, relatively advantageous and triable. Respondents succeeded in acquiring knowledge at post exposure level in all the components of fruit plant nursery viz. uses and nutritive value, bed/soil requirement, varieties, nursery bed preparation, marketing and economic value. The respondents succeeded in change their attitude at post exposure. The respondents acquired skill of medium level after exposure of training for fruit plant nursery. Impact of fruit plant nursery was found to be moderately high. It is moderately high symbolic adoption for income generation. Overall acceptability of fruit plant nursery was of moderate level. Personal and economic constraints were perceived as the main constraints than social, educational and physical constraints in adoption of nursery raising of fruit plants. Knowledge was significantly correlated with land holding, income and risk orientation while attitude was found significantly and positively correlated with age, education, land holding and risk orientation.
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    Assessment of perceptual health risk communication
    (2011) Soni, Uma; Yadav, Beena
    The study was conducted in Haryana and Rajasthan taking a total sample of 200 respondents equally drawn from two villages and two slum areas of each of the state having equal number of male and female respondents (100 each). The data were collected with the help of the well structured interview schedule about the five risk oriented health habits identified by the judges. Maximum number of the respondents belonged to the young age group (20 to 35 years), were illiterate, from nuclear and medium size families ,belonged to low caste, engaged in labour work, drawing monthly family income between Rs. 3500 to 7000 ,were landless, exhibited high risk orientation but low change proneness. It was reported that poor environmental health habits were prevalent among maximum number of the respondents followed by drinking alcohol, using tobacco, poor eating habits and personal health habits. Use of tobacco was prevalent among more respondents as compared to drinking alcohol but in terms of extent, drinking alcohol was ranked first indicating the more frequent and regular drinking of alcohol than use of tobacco. Rajasthan had significantly higher number of respondents who were chewing tobacco than Haryana. Habit of smoking was significantly higher in male respondents (78.0%) as compared to female respondents (13.0%). A vast majority of male respondents were drinking alcohol (80.0%) compared to negligible number of female respondents while (4.0%) were not washing hands regularly and this habit was more prevalent in male respondents (42.0%) than females (35%). More women were involved in water polluting activities like washing clothes near water bodies (58.0%) as compared to men (40%). The impact of using tobacco on health was perceived serious by most of the respondents .Various health hazards/ consequences were also perceived due to selected risk oriented health habits which were lung cancer, liver cancer, skin infection, asthma, malaria typhoid, blockage of drainage system, underweight and blindness. Extent of perceived hazards/consequences was maximum for drinking alcohol followed by tobacco consumption, poor eating habits, environment polluting habits and personal habits.
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    Feasibility of fruit and vegetable processing as an enterprise for women
    (CCSHAU, 2011) Batra, Payal; Varma, Shashi Kanta
    For assessing the feasibility of food and vegetable processing unit as an enterprise for rural women, two blocks i.e. Adampur and Barwala of Hisar district were selected randomly. Out of the selected blocks two villages namely Siswal and Dhani Premnagar were selected randomly. A sample of 100 respondents i.e. 50 from each village was drawn and 25 women respondents from each selected village were selected randomly who were interested to undertake training on food processing. Various socio-personal, economic, psychological and communication variables constituted the independent variables and awareness, knowledge, impact assessment, attitude, symbolic adoption, skill and acceptability constituted the dependent variables for the study. Data were collected with the help of pre-tested structured interview schedule. The inferences were drawn on the basis of frequency, percentages, paired ‘t’ test mean score and correlation. The study revealed that most of the respondents were of younger age group, illiterate, married had medium family education status having nuclear families of medium size had farming as their main occupation belong to middle caste, negligible social participation and having pucca type of houses had low annual income, marginal land holding having small herd size, low material possession and had high level of transportation. Majority of the respondents had medium change proneness, medium and high risk orientation and high economic motivation level. Most of the respondents took joint decision in family and entrepreneurial decision followed by the decision taken by husband. Most of the respondents were having low mass media exposure and high localite source of information and low cosmopolite sources of information were utilized. The general awareness of most of the respondents regarding food processing was of moderate level, however, awareness was high at post-exposure level. Maximum number of the respondents of pooled sample found the food processing technology simple, relatively advantageous trialable, observable, and culturally compatible. Sufficient gain in knowledge regarding food processing was recorded for sub-components of need for preservation, methods of preservation, important points to be kept in mind while preserving and methods of making pickles, preserve, sauce, potato chips and squashes. The respondents succeeded in change their attitude at post exposure in both of the village and succeeded in acquiring more skills with respect to all the aspects food processing. The respondents had moderately high level of symbolic adoption and willing to adopt food processing as an enterprise with somewhat difficulty. The Overall acceptability of food processing was of moderately high level. Personal and physical constraints were perceived as the main constraints in adoption of food processing. Knowledge was significantly correlated with land holding, income and risk orientation while attitude was found significantly and positively correlated with age, education, land holding and risk orientation. It was found that the obtained benefit-cost ratio in all the three cases mengo, green chilli and lemon is greater than one, hence it shows that the investment in the selected units is considered to be economically viable.
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    Feasibility of dairy farming as an enterprise for women
    (CCSHAU, 2011) Saroj Kumari; Sethi, Nishi
    Present study was conducted in Hisar District of Haryana state, purposively. From Hisar district, two blocks Adampur and Hisar-I were selected randomly. From selected blocks two villages, namely, Siswal from Adampur and Dabra from Hisar-1 were selected by random technique. From each selected village, fifty women were selected randomly, thus making total sample of 100 women. From selected villages, 20 women who were interested for training on dairy farming were selected purposively. A set of 20 independent variables and three dependent variables were selected. Need assessment, impact of training and feasibility were selected as dependent variables. Need assessment was assessed in terms of frequency, importance, difficulty and knowledge. Impact of training was assessed in terms of dairy farm women i.e. gain in knowledge, change in attitude and symbolic adoption. The collected data was quantified and interpreted by using suitable statistical tools. Majority of the respondents belonged to young age group, illiterate and joint family of medium size. Majority of respondents were doing farming and annual income belonged to medium category (40,000-60,000) and had small herd size. Most of the respondents (25%) had medium land holding and lived in a pacca house, respondents had high level of change proneness and medium risk orientation. Majority of intra family and entrepreneurial decisions were by husbands. Most of the respondents had low mass media exposure and had medium level of information source utilization. Training was resulting in significant knowledge gain, favourable change in attitude and symbolic adoption of dairy farming was observed as medium to high in majority of respondents. Dependent variables milking and milk product preparation, deworming, care and management of calves, breeding, post parturition care, marketing and bedding was found significantly correlated with independent variables. All the selected independent variable were non significantly correlated with watering wallowing and bathing, housing management of cattle shed, animal health, milking and milk product preparation and farm management and accounting. The comparison of knowledge gain and change in attitude of two villages indicated that there was no significant difference between village Dabra and Siswal.
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    Capacity Building of scheduled caste rural women through pickling of seasonal vegetables
    (CCSHAU, 2012) Gupta, Mansi; Mehta, Sudershan
    For capacity building of Scheduled caste rural women through pickling of seasonal vegetables, two blocks of Hisar district : Hisar-I and Hansi-I were selected randomly. Out of the selected blocks two villages: Patan (Hisar-I ) and Ramayan (Hansi-I) were selected randomly. To study the consumption pattern of seasonal vegetables by SC rural women, a list of all the scheduled caste families from both the villages was prepared separately. According to the list there were 116 and 54 SC families in the Ramayan and Patan villages respectively. Women member from all the families were interviewed. Out of the total families from both the villages, 20 interested women per village were selected to form two groups. Thus, there were 40 women into two groups. Two trainings, 6 days each for the respondents of both the villages were organized. The study revealed that most of the respondents were below 25 years age, married, primary educated, had joint family of medium size, no land, medium material possession, low level of family education, were agricultural labourers and earn between Rs. 5,001-10000 monthly. Majority of the respondents had low social participation, extension personnel contact and mass media exposure, medium entrepreneurial motivation, risk orientation and economic motivation. Regarding consumption pattern of vegetables, majority of the respondents consume roots and tubers daily followed by green leafy vegetables and other vegetables twice in week, for health benefits and procure all the vegetables from the market. Impact of training was assessed in terms of gain in knowledge, change in attitude and dissemination of the technology. Results revealed that more than half of the respondents were having medium knowledge gain and attitude change (57.50% and 55.00%, respectively). In the case of dissemination of the technology, it was found that 47.50 and 45.00 per cent respondents demonstrated 1-3 and 4-6 types of pickles to other SC ladies. Overall impact of the training was found to be of moderate level. After training 40.00 respondents had medium symbolic adoption. Most of the respondents reported all the pickles (except amla ) simple, triable and cultural compatible. Cent per cent respondents adopted one or the other type of pickle but for the household consumption. Marketing of pickles and shortage of time were perceived as the main constraints in adoption of pickling enterprise for income generation.
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    Knowledge and utilization of R.T.I. in higher educational institutions
    (CCSHAU, 2012) Santosh Rani; Goel, Rita
    The right to information Bill, 2005 was passed by Lok Sabha on 11 may, 2005 and by the Rajya Sabha on12 th May, 2005 and it received the assent on 15 June, 2005 bythe president of India. It has been notified on 21 st June, 2005 in Gazette of India and it came into force on 120 th days of its enactment i.e. 12 th October, 2005. The path of fast speed of economic development, best quality of democratic and controlto corruption pass way from successful applicationof RTI Act. RTI Act is not an extra tool or law but is an option to make the strong base and root of country. The systematic studies about RTI in the employed sector of educational institutes are rare. This study will be helpful to bring the transparency and accountability in working of educational institutes and will help in making some amendments in RTI act to policy makers.Taking this in view; it was decided to study the “knowledge and utilizationof RTI in higher educational institutions. “The study was conducted in purposively selected Hisar district of Haryana state because the two universities required for study are situated in this district. There are two universities in Hisar district where thousands of employees work daily i.e. Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology andChaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. A list of staff used RTI was collected from RTI in-charge of each University. Total 80 users (40 from each University) and 50 providers (25 from each university) have been selected randomly from the available list of University irrespective of gender, nature of job, type of department etc. Considering the relevancy and suitability of the variables for present study, two set of independent (33 variables) and one set of dependent (3 variables) variables were selected for the present investigation. Results indicated that maximum RTI users had taken single promotion, satisfied with workmates and superiors in their departments, used RTI with theirown name, in year 2010, received information within one to two weeks, main purpose for RTI was service matters, paid Rs.50/-as fees per application, asked the information from records, received information within first application, asked the questions in range of 4-5. Further results observed that majority RTI users received information in English language, information was incomplete, moderately satisfied from received information and opinion about RTI act was successful and transparency tool. Majority of RTI users faced the constraints regarding misleading and incomplete information followed by lack of satisfaction, lack of knowledge, vague information etc. On the other hand, it was reported that maximum RTI providers were on scientific posts and unit-in charge in the institutions of both the universitiesand they worked for more than one year to two years as RTI providers. The study further indicated that they mostly provided the information for service matters in English language. 66% RTI providers received the training regarding Right to information Act in both the universities and mostly received training for one day. 86% RTI providers attended the seminar/workshop/meeting related to RTI for one day. Most commonly RTI provider’s perception about RTI Act was that this act is ground for non–corruption. They provided the information from records to RTI applicants by- hand. 26% RTI providers rejected the RTI applications for irrelevant questions as reason for rejection in both the universities. Majority of RTI providers handled applications in between range of 21-50 in both the universities and mostly were happy with their working as a provider. Majority of RTI providers faced the problem of irrelevant questions, incomplete questions and non availability of records.