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Subject: Extension Education × Author: Dharmender Singh × Start date: 2012 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Study of Farmers’ Knowledge, Perception and Utilization of Mobile Apps in Agricultural Production
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2022-07) Dharmender Singh; Shehrawat, P. S
    The study was conducted in four districts namely, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Rewari and Jhajjar and from each district, two blocks were selected randomly. Thus, total numbers of eight blocks were selected for the study. From each block, two villages were selected randomly. Thus, total numbers of 16 villages were selected for the study. From each village, 15 respondents were selected randomly. Thus, total 240 respondents were selected and personally interviewed through well-structured schedule on their farm or home. The data were divided into various parts i.e. personal profile of farmers, knowledge, perception, utilization pattern, impact and constrains. Results of the personal profile of the respondents reported that majority of the farmers were of young age group, educated up to pre-university/diploma, belonged to OBC category and had land holding up to 5 acres. Majority of the respondents used the WhatsApp app followed by E-mausamhau and IFFCO Kisan mobile app. Overall knowledge level of respondents was high and overall perception level of respondents was of medium level. Impact of mobile apps on agricultural production was medium meant that mobile apps had huge potential in agricultural sector. The utilization pattern of mobile apps by respondents was found of medium level through utility index. Lack of training on specific aspect was found the very serious constraints in infrastructure constraints followed by insufficient availability of ICT services in rural area, recommended practices are very expensive and lack of satisfactory solution of individual problem were serious constraints in the technical, economic and miscellaneous categories.
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    Technological gap in adoption of forage sorghum cultivation in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2019) Dharmender Singh; Chahal, Pardeep
    This study was conducted to develop strategies for popularizing sorghum production technology among farmers of Haryana state. The study was conducted on 120 randomly selected respondents from two randomly selected blocks of Gurugram district in Haryana state. Interview was conducted with the help of well-structured schedule, which was divided into two parts i.e. personal profile of respondents and knowledge and adoption level and constraints. The results of the study revealed that in case of recommended cultivars majority of respondents belong to full adoption category. Majority of respondents had partial level of adoption in recommended seed rate, time of planting, manure and fertilizers, intercultural operations, irrigation and in disease and their control. Findings of the personal profile of the respondents revealed that majority of the farmers were of middle age group (36-50 years), educated upto senior secondary, belonged to joint family with 5-6 members, performed only agriculture and had land holding upto 2.5-5 acres. Majority of respondents belong to OBC category. Maximum number of respondents follow sorghum-mustard cropping pattern. Majority of respondents are not member of any organization and using tubewell as source of irrigation. Maximum technological gap was found in planting distance and minimum technology gap in planting time. Major constraints faced by farmers were high prices of agro-chemicals regarding input constraints, lack of transport facilities and disposal of produce constraints in marketing and problem of stray animals in production constraints. To overcome these constraints, adoption of multicut varieties, recommended manure and fertilizer, number of irrigations, regular organizing the trainings regarding fodder production were very useful.