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ThesisItem Open Access AWARENESS, HEALTH RISK PERCEPTION AND HANDLING BEHAVIOUR OF PESTICIDES BY FARM WORKERS(dbskkv., Dapoli, 2019) SHIGWAN, PRATHAMESH DILIP; PATIL, V. G.. The respondents were interviewed with the help of specially designed scheduled. Majority of the farm workers were in middle age, had ‘medium’ annual income, social participation and information seeking behaviour. Maximum number of the farm workers were ‘married’. Majority had high school education and medium level working experience. Only 19.17 per cent had received training. The maximum work of pesticides application in rabi season. Awareness of farm workers regarding the handling of pesticides was fairly good. 46.00 per cent of the farm workers read label and 27.00 per cent aware about colour triangle given on pesticide bottle. Almost all workers use particular equipment’s and protective measures during pesticide application. Only 10.00 had habit of eating tobacco at a time of pesticide application. Majority of workers clean their body after spraying and wash contaminated clothes separately. Very few of them wash empty containers near water bodies and did not use pin while spraying nozzle is blocked. Most (82.00 per cent) of workers never entre in the sprayed field and 60.00 per cent of the farm workers aware about safety storage of pesticides. Majority of farm workers had information about pesticide exposures and they know the lack of knowledge, inadequate understanding of toxicity level and poor protective mechanism are directly effects on their health. 88.33 per cent workers had knowledge about first-aid as first-aid kit is available on every farm. Majority of the workers opined that, pesticides are ‘very harmful’. Farm workers had at least one symptoms of acute pesticide poisoning after applying and handling of pesticides. Largely observed symptoms are headache, burning sensation in eyes and face, itching, and skin rashes. Overall perception about pesticide use and their ill effects on health was fairly good. Maintenance and timely replacement of parts of sprayers and dusters and pesticide safety education to all farm workers (42.00 per cent) were the major suggestions given by them.ThesisItem Open Access SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD ACTIVITIES OF FISHERMEN IN COASTAL KONKAN REGION OF MAHARASHTRA(Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli , Dist : Ratnagiri, 2017) PATILKHEDE, BHAGYASHREE SURESH; Patil, V. G.The present study was conducted in Palghar district of North Konkan Coastal Zone and Ratnagiri district of South Konkan Coastal Zone. Two tahsils were selected from each district and two hundred and forty fishermen were selected. Personal interview technique was used for data collection. Considering the objectives and other aspects of the study, it was decided to study the Sustainable Livelihood activities of fishermen to assess the poverty, food insecurity and vulnerability of artisanal fishing communities in the Coastal Konkan Region of Maharashtra state. The independent variables studied were age, education, family type, family size, religion, fishing experience, decision making pattern, training attended, scientific orientation, marketing behavior and infrastructural support. The dependent variable under study was Sustainable Livelihood Activities of the Fishermen. The dependent variable was quantified by index developed for the study. Collected data were processed and converted in suitable statistical methods such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Chi-square test. It was observed that the average age of the respondents was 45 years and nearly half of them were illiterate. They belonged to joint family type and medium family size. Near about three-fourth of them were from Hindu religion and 38.75 per cent had high fishing experience. More than half 57.08 per cent were in medium category of decision making pattern and 42.50 per cent did not attend any training. The average score regarding scientific orientation was 21.62. They had medium marketing behaviour and low level of infrastructural support. At overall level, majority of fishermen were observed in „medium‟ level of livelihood vulnerability (66.25 per cent), seasonality (71.25 per cent), livelihood assets (63.34 per cent) and occupational pattern (55.00 per cent). Thus in all, eighty seven per cent of the fishermen were found in medium to low level of sustainable livelihood activities. The relationship between selected characteristics namely age, education, fishing experience, decision making pattern, training attended, scientific orientation, marketing behaviour and infrastructural support showed highly significant association with sustainable livelihood activities of fisher folk. The independent variables namely family type, family size and religion of the respondents did not establish any significant association with the sustainable livelihood activities. “Over exploitation of the middlemen / agents / traders/ co-operative societies” (87.50 per cent), was the major constraint in fishing activities followed by “debt” (88.33 per cent), “lack of ready package of fish culture” (91.67 per cent), “no drying and processing land” (66.67 per cent), “dominance of middlemen in marketing” (87.50 per cent), and “inefficient execution and implementation of government programmes” (77.92 per cent). “Need to eliminate over exploitation of the middlemen/ agents / traders/ co-operative societies” (87.50 per cent), “need to abolish market middlemen for improving market efficiency” (85.00 per cent), “need to give fair price for the catch” (83.33 per cent), “need to create awareness among the fisher folk about Government policies and programmes” (77.92 per cent), “supportive role of Government for repairs and maintenance of fishing equipment‟s, crafts and gears” (71.66 per cent) and “uniform policy through interactive governance should be implemented for the welfare of fishermen” (70.00 per cent) were the suggestions made by large number of the respondents in order to improve sustainable livelihood activities of fish folkThesisItem Open Access Aspirations of the students undergoing lower education in Agriculture (Accession No. T05950)(Department of Extension Education, Dr. B. S. K. K. V., Dapoli, 2016-05) Pakale, Nishikant Chandrakant; Hardikar, D. P.The present study was conducted in Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli (M.S). The sample constituted 280 students, who have completed second year and entered in final year of agriculture polytechnic. The respondents were interviewed with the help of specially designed schedule. Majority of the respondents had basic education of 10th standard, ‘rural ‘family background and had ‘high’ family income. Majority of them had ‘small’ land holding and ‘farming’ as their main occupation while academic performance those students was good. Majority of the students had ‘medium’ knowledge of agriculture schemes, ‘medium’ participation in co- curricular activities. Majority of the students had ‘medium’ level of aspiration. Most of the students aspired to secure administrative position in agriculture departments. One fourth of students had aspired to start ‘farming’ for the source of self employment and ‘to earn income of more than Rs. 50,000/- per month. Important social aspirations of the students was ‘to provide every support regarding improved agriculture to the needy villagers. It was observed that the characteristics namely, family income, family occupation and knowledge about schemes related to agriculture had positive and significant relationship with aspirations of the students whereas, the characteristics namely, basic education, land holding had shown negative and non significant relationship with aspirations of the students. Family background, academic performance and participation in co-curricular activities had positive and non significant relationship with aspirations of the students. ‘Use of computer in agriculture’ (77.14 per cent), ‘Video conferencing’ (75.35 per cent) and ‘Organization of training for preparation of project proposals for different enterprises’ (74.64 per cent) were the suggestions given by the students, so as to fulfill the aspirations.ThesisItem Open Access Effectiveness of Agricultural Programmes of different channels as perceived by televewing farmers (Accession No. T05948)(Department of Extension Education, Dr. B. S. K. K. V., Dapoli, 2016-05) Shinde, Vijay Maruti; Sawant, P. A.The present field study was conducted mainly with the specific objective to study the effectiveness of agricultural programmes of ABP Majha and Sahyadri channel as perceived by the televiewing farmers .The study was conducted in two tahsils namely, Mandangad and Chiplun of Ratnagiri district which were selected randomly. Twenty villages from these two tahsils were selected for the study. The data were collected by taking personally interview of 100 televiewers, 50 each of ABP Majha and Sahyadri channel. The televiewers of ABP Majha and Sahyadri channels differed remarkably with regard to size of land holding, annual income and mass media exposure. However, majority of the televiewing farmers of the two channels perceived ‘medium’ effectiveness of farm telecasts. There was a significant difference in the perception of televiewing farmers of ABP Majha and Sahyadri channel with respect to components of effectiveness, namely understandability, usefulness, demonstration mode of presentation, entertainment and relevancy of pictures. The ABP Majha channel televiewers outscored the Sahyadri channel televiewers in this aspect. The symbolic adoption of the technologies, namely fertilizer dose, improved seed, plant protection measures, scientific cultivation of fruit trees, water management and nursery management was maximum. The personal and socio-economic characteristics of the televiewing farmers namely, size of land holding, annual income, major occupation and mass media exposure were significantly correlated with the perceived effectiveness of agricultural programme. The televiewing farmers would like the telecast presented in the form of demonstration, discussion with farmers, interview of farmers and scientists. Maximum number of televiewers had expectation that duration of agricultural programme should be increased to one hour.ThesisItem Open Access Aspirations of the students undergoing lower education in Agriculture (Accession No.T05950)(Department of Extension Education, Dr. B. S. K. K. V., Dapoli, 2016-05) Pakale, Nishikant Chandrakant; Hardikar, D. P.The present study was conducted in Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli (M.S). The sample constituted 280 students, who have completed second year and entered in final year of agriculture polytechnic. The respondents were interviewed with the help of specially designed schedule. Majority of the respondents had basic education of 10th standard, ‘rural ‘family background and had ‘high’ family income. Majority of them had ‘small’ land holding and ‘farming’ as their main occupation while academic performance those students was good. Majority of the students had ‘medium’ knowledge of agriculture schemes, ‘medium’ participation in co- curricular activities. Majority of the students had ‘medium’ level of aspiration. Most of the students aspired to secure administrative position in agriculture departments. One fourth of students had aspired to start ‘farming’ for the source of self employment and ‘to earn income of more than Rs. 50,000/- per month. Important social aspirations of the students was ‘to provide every support regarding improved agriculture to the needy villagers. It was observed that the characteristics namely, family income, family occupation and knowledge about schemes related to agriculture had positive and significant relationship with aspirations of the students whereas, the characteristics namely, basic education, land holding had shown negative and non significant relationship with aspirations of the students. Family background, academic performance and participation in co-curricular activities had positive and non significant relationship with aspirations of the students. ‘Use of computer in agriculture’ (77.14 per cent), ‘Video conferencing’ (75.35 per cent) and ‘Organization of training for preparation of project proposals for different enterprises’ (74.64 per cent) were the suggestions given by the students, so as to fulfill the aspirations.ThesisItem Open Access Marketing behaviour of Mogra and Kagda growers in Palghar District(Dr. B. S. K. K. V., Dapoli) Parab, Yogita Sunil; Kadam, J. R.The study was conducted in Palghar and Vasai-virar tahasils of Palghar districts of Konkan region. The sample was constituted of 120 mogra and kagda growers from 8 villages. The respondents were interviewed with the help of specially designed schedule. Majority of mogra and kagda growers belonged to ‘medium’ age, area under cultivation, yield of mogra and kagda, annual income, farming experience. Majority of the respondents had ‘secondary’ education, small land holding, ‘fair’ irrigation status and ‘medium’ marketing behaviour. Eight characteristics namely education, land holding, area under sapota, yield of mogra and kagda, annual income, farming experience, irrigation status and sources of information had significant association with marketing behaviour. Maximum number of the respondents got information from their neighbours and friends regarding marketing and undertaking new plantation. Majority of growers sold their produce directly to the market with less utilization. In existing cultivation practices followed by the mogra and kagda growers, majority of the respondents followed ploughing and used the ‘banglori’ variety of mogra and local variety of kagda, had used healthy nursery cuttings while selecting the planting material. Majority of the respondents had planted their mogra and kagda in the month of ‘June-July’, had followed the spacing ‘1.5 m x 1.5 m’ in mogra, while ‘1.8 m x 1.8 m’ in kagda flower. Many growers cultivated ‘tagar’ as an intercrop. All mogra and kagda growers used the hand weeding for control the weed growth and useful control measures for protection of plant. Majority (100.00 per cent) of the respondents used ‘FYM. Maximum number was identified red spider mite in their field. Control measure with chemical control was done by some respondents. Majority of the respondents had applied ‘urea’ as a fertilizer. All growers followed pruning in the month of ‘November-January’. Majority of the respondents had harvested the flowers early in the morning or before sunrise. Majority of the growers of mogra and kagda flowers (97.50 per cent) had stated that ‘Shortage of labour’ was a major problem in harvesting of flowers, whereas 96.16 per cent of them had faced the constraint ‘Low quality flowers due to pest and disease attack’. In case of packaging, 95.33 per cent of respondents had faced the constraints of ‘Non availability of Packaging material’, followed by ‘Markets are far away’ (92.50 per cent). Majority (95.83 per cent) of the respondents suggested ‘Market information should be made available in nearby places’. ‘Improved storage, handling and processing facilities should be available to reduce marketing loss’ and ‘Display of prices at each market place’ were the suggestions made by 88.33 per cent growers.ThesisItem Open Access Extent of peoples participation in Nirmal Gram Yojana in prize winning and non-prize winning villages(Department of Extension Education, Dr. B. S. K. K. V., Dapoli, 2012-05) Ninghot, Yogesh Ashokrao; Kadam, J. R.ThesisItem Open Access Media use and utilization by woman mambers of PRIs for seking information on rural development(Department of Extension Education, Dr. B. S. K. K. V., Dapoli, 2012-05) Kanase, Pallavi Sambhaji; Chorge, K. V.ThesisItem Open Access Role performance of women panchayat members in Konkan and north Maharashtra(Department of Extension Education, Dr. B. S. K. K. V., Dapoli, 2012-05) Gawali, Sangita Rangnath; Mehta, P. G.