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    Procurement and utilization of credit facilities by rural women in Hisar district
    (CCSHAU, 2007) Raksha; Goel, Rita
    Around the world, women’s economic conditions are adversely affected by their lack of access to productive resources. A women’s economic position directly affects her ability to purchase, needed improvements in health, housing and education for herself and her family, her position and bargaining power in the family and community as well as her ability to act against violence in her home and her world. Credit being an entry point for development, increased access to credit for women is justified on all three grounds of equity, need and prudent banking. Though credit was recognized as an important plank of strategy for women in development right from 1975, no full proof credit system is yet developed, for delivering credit to poor women for self employment or enterprise development. To understand the credit behaviour of women, the present study was conducted in Hisar district, Haryana state. A sample of 100 rural women who procured credit was selected randomly to know the procurement, utilization and repayment pattern of credit. Personal, economic, communication and psychological variables were taken as independent variables, whereas, knowledge about the credit agencies, procurement of the credit, utilization of the credit and repayment of the credit were studied as dependent variables. The background information of the respondents revealed that majority of them were middle aged, illiterate, belonged to medium caste, had small nuclear family , medium family education status, agriculture as main family occupation. Low income, and land holding and herd size. They had low to medium communication and psychological profile. Study revealed that majority get information about credit from the neighbours, relatives and friends. Maximum credit was given by the State Bank of India and the scheme was Haryana Women Development Cooperation (HWDC). Cent per cent respondents conceptualized credit as a help to rural masses and the main reason for the procurement of credit was starting entrepreneurship. Majority completely utilized the credit but do not repay at time due to natural calamities. The overall constraints faced by respondents in procurement was educational, for utilization, it was insufficient amount and for repayment, communication was the major constraint. For constraints, they suggested that there should be awareness programme, procurement procedure should be easy, interest rate should be low etc. Occupation, risk orientation and economic motivation were significantly associated with the procurement behavior and innovation proneness was significantly associated with the repayment behavior of the respondents.
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    Extent and causes of school dropouts : A gender perspective
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Rajni; Goel, Rita
    Education is essential for economic development and eradicating poverty. Of the number of school going children in the age group 6 to 13 years in rural areas, 7.8% are out of school. Dropout can occur either when a pupil is compelled to leave school due to inadequate schooling provision or when he quits the school even if there is provision for his education. The estimated number of out of school children is 1.3 crore. The majority of out of school children are girls and children belonging to SCs and STs in rural areas.The present study was conducted with the following specific objectives: To assess the extent of dropouts at various levels of school education, To identify the causes of dropouts and To ascertain the activities/ jobs in which the dropouts are engaged. The study was conducted in Haryana state by selecting two districts namely Hisar and Sonipat, four blocks Hisar-I, Hansi-I, Sonipat and Gohana and four villages Dabra, Umra, Juan and Rabhra were selected randomly. A sample of 100 parents of school dropouts was interviewed. The data were collected with the help of duly constructed and pre tested interview schedule by the researcher. List of all the drop-outs during last five years (2001-2006) from class 6th to 12th was prepared from the selected schools’ records. From detailed list of dropouts, 25 dropouts and their parents from each of the selected village were drawn randomly. In this way total sample of 100 dropouts were selected for present study. Majority of the respondents (69%) from middle age group belong to high caste. Maximum respondents and their husbands were illiterate. Fifty six per cent respondents having medium educational status from nuclear families and having above five members in the family. Majority of the respondents having both boys and girls children living in pacca houses. Most of the respondents were landless having monthly income less than Rs. 5000/-. Fathers and mothers of most of the dropouts were engaged in agriculture labour. Most of the respondents fall in low category regarding all the psychological variables. More girls left the school in 7th, 9th, 10th, 12th then the boys. Boys dropout rate were high in 6th, 8th and 11th standard. The dropout rate has increased in the year 2004, 2005 and 2006. (Hisar). Girls (40.04%) dropout were high in 10th class, followed by 31.36 per cent in 9th and 24.67 per cent in 11th class (Sonepat). Boys enrolment in schools were high then girls. Majority of the dropouts were in age group 13-16 years. Most of the dropouts were failed in previous class. Sixty five per cent dropouts get assistant from government such as remission of fees, free books/ copies and scholarship. Who left the school once were never readmitted in the school. Lack of proper guidance (97.00%) and proper encouragement at school (91.00%) were the main reasons for dropouts as perceived by the parents. Almost half of the dropped wards (46.00%) were engaged in domestic work followed by 15.00 per cent in self employment and farming (11.00%). Child labour, service and business were also mentioned in the study.
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    Gender analysis of information and communication technology in rural households of Hisar District
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Preeti Singh; Grover, Indu
    Information and communication technology (ICT) is an umbrella term that includes both traditional and modern information and communication technologies. For the present study ICT refers to eight ICTs viz. television, radio, news paper, magazine, telephone, mobile, computer and internet. The study “Gender analysis of information and communication technology in rural households of Hisar District” conducted on a sample of 100 male and 100 female respondents respectively drawn from 4 villages of Hisar district revealed that among male respondents television was possessed by cent per cent (Rank-I), followed by mobile (63.00%, Rank-II), newspaper (61.00%, Rank-III), telephone (59.00%, Rank-IV), radio (55.00%, Rank-V), magazine (37.00%, Rank-VI) and computer (18.00%, Rank-VII) while none possessed internet at home (Rank-VIII). In case of female respondents, television was possessed by cent per cent (Rank-I), followed by radio (65.00%, Rank-II), mobile (57.00%, Rank-III), newspaper (50.00%, Rank-IV) and telephone (45.00%, Rank-V) followed by magazine (34.00%, Rank-VI) and computer (13.00%, Rank-VII) while none possessed internet at home (Rank-VIII). Gender analysis for access to ICTs revealed that cent per cent male respondents had access to television (100.00%, Rank-I) followed by mobile (63.00%, Rank-II) and newspaper (61.00%, Rank-III), telephone (59.00%, Rank-IV), radio (55.00%, Rank-V), magazine (37.00%, Rank-VI) while both computer (Rank-VII) and internet (Rank-VII) was accessed by 24.00 per cent, respectively. Regarding females all had access to television (Rank-I) followed by radio (65.00%, Rank-II), mobile (57.00%, Rank-III), telephone (45.00%, Rank-IV), magazine (34.00%, Rank-V) and newspaper (26.00%, Rank-VI), while 15.00 per cent and 13.00 per cent of female respondents had access to internet (Rank-VII) and computer (Rank-VIII) respectively. Both male and female respondents accessed internet outside home. Gender analysis of overall access and use of ICTs showed significant association of gender with both access to and use of ICTs when tested through χ2 at 5 per cent level of significance. Regarding overall control of ICTs, males had higher control on all the ICTs.Association of socio-economic variables of male and female respondents for those who possessed ICTs, with access, control and use of eight individual ICTs revealed that for access there was significant association of age, size of family and land holding in case of news paper and caste and size of family for mobile. Association for control on ICTs revealed that there was significant association of age and occupation on control of news paper where as for magazine factors effecting control was occupation. Association with use of ICTs showed that there was significant association of education, caste and scientific temper on use of television while for telephone and mobile factors affecting were education, scientific temper and land holding, respectively.
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    Field applicability of package of practices of home science in rural Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Ritu; Asha Rani
    Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) is a grass root level institute designed and devoted to provide latest technical know-how of agriculture, animal science, home science and allied sciences by the principle of learning by doing in order to make them socially and economically independent. KVKs are functioning since 1974, but till today there is non-availability of home science literature pertaining to different departments of home science. First package of home science was released in 2005. This package included 35 messages related to different departments of home science. The study was conducted by selecting 50 field functionaries and 300 rural women. The effectiveness of package of practices was assessed on the three aspects i.e. title, content and conclusion by employing weighted score, mean score and rank. In overall effectiveness of content, body text achieved first rank. The title and conclusion were ranked as IInd and IIIrd, respectively. Enhancing the nutritive value of food with low cost, care during pregnancy, water purification through Janta water filter, paper pattern for children clothing and surf preparation at household level were the identified crucial messages from F.N., H.D.F.S., F.R.M., C.T. and H.S.E.E., respectively. Field applicability was assessed on two aspects i.e. attributes of innovation and visual assessment. First rank was given to simplicity-complexity, with regard to message of enhancing the nutritive value of food with low cost and surf preparation at household level, respectively. Cultural compatibility was ranked as first with regard to the message of care during pregnancy and water purification through Janta water filter. Triability was ranked as first with regard to field applicability of identified crucial message of clothing and textiles. With regard to visual assessment, it was observed that title was ranked as first with regard to the identified crucial message of foods and nutrition and family resource management. Self explanatory was ranked as first with regard to identified crucial message of care during pregnancy and paper pattern for children clothing. It was manifested that general get up was rated as first in case of surf preparation at household level. Illustrations of scientific information with pictures was ranked as first out of the seven suggested measures to enhance the field applicability of package of practices of home science.
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    Impact assessment of all India coordinated research project (AICRP) in home science on farm women
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Deepti; Seema Rani
    The present investigation was carried out in five villages of Hisar district of Haryana state to assess impact of All India Coordinated Research (AICRP) in Home Science on farm women. The villages adopted under AICRP in Home Science were selected purposively. Thus Gunjar and Bhojraj from Hisar-I and Bherian, Ludas and Shahpur from Hisar-II block were selected for the persent investigation. From selected villages, a random sample of 25 farm women was drawn from each village, thus a total number of 125 farm women from all the five villages formed the sample of the study and 25 non participants were selected from non adopted village. Personal, economic, communication and psychological variables constituted the independent variables. The knowledge, attitude, skill, adoption and entrepreneurial behaviour of the respondents constituted the dependent variables for the study. The data were collected with the help of pre-tested structured interview schedule. The study revealed that irrespective of the experimental and controlled group, most of the respondents were young, married, had farming as main occupation, educated upto middle and high school, belonged to backward caste, nuclear family system having medium to small family size, indicating low social participation. Economic profile showed small herd size, thatched/katcha dwelling for livestock, mixed houses, family income in most of families varies from Rs. 5000-10,000 had 1.0 to 2.5 acres of land. Majority of the respondents had low level of farm assets, medium level of household assets and media ownership. The high to medium level of economic motivation, change proneness and risk orientation was reported in case of experimental group while in controlled group medium level of mass media exposure, economic motivation, change proneness and risk orientation were reported. The knowledge mean scores on various aspects of health and nutrition, clothing and textile, drudgery reduction, income generation, mother and child care practices indicated better scores in the experimental group than the controlled group. The significant ‘t’ values also indicating significant differences in knowledge of two groups. The similar trend was observed in change in attitude. Statistically, significant ‘t’ values of the skill acquisition mean scores indicated significant difference of the experimental and controlled groups in skill acquired for health and nutrition, clothing and textile, drudgery reduction, income generation, mother and child care practices. Most of the respondents were in medium level of adoption followed by low and high level of adoption for various components of health and nutrition, clothing and textile, drudgery reduction, income generation, mother and child care practices. The heavy work load of household, health problems, lack of motivation from family and society, high cost, repayment of loans and electricity problems were the major constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of improved practices. Regarding entrepreneurial behaviour of majority of the respondents on different aspects of communication, goal setting and background history was found in medium level of category followed by low and high. Most of the socio-personal, economic psychological and communication variables were found significantly associated with the knowledge, attitude and skill of the respondents for all the aspects of health and nutrition, drudgery reduction, clothing and textile and income generation except mother and child care.
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    Economic feasibility of nursery raising for rural women
    (CCSHAU, 2009) Nutan; Sethi, Nishi
    The present investigation was carried out in four villages of Hisar district of Haryana state to assess economic feasibility of nursery raising and impact of training of Vegetable nursery raising in farm women. The selection of villages was based on their domination of Vegetables nursery raising activities. Four villages having maximum participation in nursery raising activities were selected. Thirty women respondents from each village were selected. Thus a sample of 120 respondents was selected out of four villages. Respondents having maximum participation and interested in training of nursery raising activities were selected for imparting skill training. Twenty rural women each from villages Aryanagar and Ludhas were selected and were brought to Vegetable farm of CCS HAU, Hisar for 2 days for imparting training. Training was imparted through experts of Vegetable department. The independent variables selected for study were socio-personal and economic variables, psychological variables, situational variables whereas existing pattern of nursery raising and impact assessment of training (KAS) were taken as dependent variables. Majority of the respondents were of middle age group, medium caste, joint families were one boy and one girl, illiterate and had more than to 5 acres of land. Almost fifty per cent of the respondents were induced in social organizations and most of the respondents had low overall material possession. Commutation profile of the respondents was low to medium. Majority of the respondents motivate to grow nursery for high demand, past experience and technical competence, half of the respondents managed themselves with the help of borrowed money against drought, majority of the respondents got financial assistance of Rs. 10000-15000. Excessive burden of work and responsibilities, difficulty in marketing, poor quality seed were the major constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of nursery raising practices. The comparative work participation analysis showed that all male members were made selection of seeds and women were applying fertilizers, seedling and engagement of labour whereas transplanting was performed jointly by them. There was significant difference in the knowledge of rural women at pre and post exposure stage for all the messages. The ‘+’ values for all the messages were found to be significant. Significant change in attitude, knowledge, skill regarding all the messages. The study revealed that majority of the respondents in different aspects of nursery raising was found in medium level of category. The impact assessment of training regarding identified message showed that the calculated impact was found to be of moderate level i.e. 62.68 per cent proving economic feasibility of the nursery raising.
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    Feasibility of mushroom enterprise for empowerment of women
    (CCSHAU, 2009) Manju; Varma, Shashi Kanta
    For assessing the feasibility of mushroom enterprise for empowerment of women, two blocks i.e. Pehowa and Ladwa of Kurkshetra district were selected randomly. Out of the selected blocks two villages namely Bhoarsainda and Niwarsi were selected at random. A sample of 100 respondent’s i.e. 50 from each village was drawn and 25 women each from selected villages were selected randomly who were interested in having XXVIIItraining on mushroom production. Various socio-economic, personal, 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, percentage, paired‘t’ test, mean score and correlation. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to lower middle age group, educated upto matriculation, married, had medium family educational status, belonged to joint family, medium sized family and farming was their main occupation. Most of the respondents fall in the middle category of annual income i.e. between Rs. 40,001 to Rs. 60,000. Majority of the respondents belonged to middle caste, possessing medium land holding between 5-10 acres and negligible social participation, owning pucca house and having small herd size. Majority of the respondents had medium level of change proneness, risk orientation and economic motivation. Majority of them took decisions jointly in intra family as well as in entrepreneurial activities. The difference between pre and post exposure, mean score of knowledge and attitude was highly significant at 0.05 pre cent of probability. Majority of respondents had acquired medium skill acquisition for mushroom production after exposure to the training. Impact assessment of training regarding mushroom production on rural women speaks of the fact that calculated impact was found to be of moderately high level. Most of the respondents had moderately high symbolic adoption and willingness to adopt mushroom production for income generation and had high overall acceptability of mushroom production. Regarding the association of gain in knowledge and other variables, it was found that knowledge was significantly and positively correlated with caste, land holding, income and risk orientation but had significant and negative correlation with the size of family. Age, education were found to be significantly and positively correlated with attitude whereas income and risk orientation were found to be significantly and negatively correlated with attitude.
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    Capacity building of scheduled caste rural women through processing of milk and milk products
    (CCSHAU, 2009) Yadav, Monika; Mehta, Sudershan
    The study was undertaken in randomly selected two villages viz : Dhana and Balawas, Hisar district, Haryana state. Out of the list of total SC families, 50 percent families i.e. 50 from Dhana and 100 from Balawas which totaled to 150 were selected randomly. Personal, social, economic, psychological and communicational parameters were taken as independent variables and impact of training (gain in knowledge and change in attitude), acceptability of the technology (perceived feasibility and symbolic adoption) were taken as dependent variable. The study revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to young age group, were married belonged to nuclear family, were illiterate, had agricultural labourer as their main occupation, earn less than 5,000/month, had low material possession, low social participation, outside urban contact and mass media exposure, medium level of entrepreneurial motivation, risk orientation, and economic motivation. More than half of the respondents heard about various milk products. Majority were unaware about reservation in education and in jobs, had lack of knowledge regarding income generating activities and provision of bank loans to SC women. Majority of the respondents had low knowledge in most of the messages, low symbolic adoption and unfavourable attitude at pre-exposure stage. But at the postexposure stage, majority gained medium knowledge in all the messages i.e. testing adulteration in milk and packaging, loaning and marketing. Medium attitudinal change and low change in symbolic adoption. Khoa, paneer, cream and chhana were found to be economical profitable and simple to use. Majority perceived flavored milk and sweet lassi as simple to use and physical compatible but not profitable. On the whole adoption feasibility and overall acceptability of processing of milk and milk products technology was of medium level.
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    Capacity building of rural women through beekeeping
    (CCSHAU, 2009) Mittal, Shivangi; Kaushik, Sushma
    The study was undertaken in randomly selected two villages viz: Sultanpur and Umra of Hisar district, Haryana state. A group of 50 women from each village (total 100 respondents) were selected randomly. Socio-economic, personal, Communicational, Psychological, Situational parameter were taken as independent variable and awareness of bee-keeping, feasibility of beekeeping, impact of training (knowledge gain, change in attitude and symbolic adoption) were taken as dependent. The study revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to middle age group, high caste, joint families of medium size, low level of personal and medium family education, having no occupation and income, had low level of material possession, medium social participation, mass media exposure and low extension contact while had medium economic motivation, risk orientation but low change proneness. Majority of the respondents had very less awareness about beekeeping technology benefits of beekeeping, and bee products, except honey and perceived feasibility of beekeeping enterprise as medium. Training on beekeeping was organized in collaboration wih Haryana agro industries cooperation, which resulted in significant increase in awareness about benefits of beekeeping and bee products, knowledge, attitude and symbolic adoption of respondents. A positive and significant correlation was found between change in attitude and age, education and economic motivation, material possession social participation and risk orientation, while there was negative and significant relationship between knowledge gain and age but significant and positive correlation between education, extension contact and mass media exposure. Market, technological and economic constraints were the major factors associated with adoption of beekeeping