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ThesisItem Open Access Assessment of Integrated Farming System in Haryana(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-08-20) Khushbu; Sabharwal, KantaThe study entitled “Assessment of Integrated Farming System in Haryana”. Study was conducted in two Western and Eastern agro-climatic zone of Haryana state, covering two districts of each zone and three villages from each district with random sample techniques with 120 respondents. It was found that prominent farming system adopted by all the respondents were (crop + dairy). Apart from Crop + Dairy the key farming system practicing by marginal land holding respondents (6.6% and20.0%), small land holding (11.6% and 8.3%) and semi-medium land holding respondents (50.0% and 41.6%) were practicing (crop+ vegetables + fruits + dairy). Regarding purpose of adoption of IFS components, majority of respondents reported that they had adopted all major IFS components for household as well as commercial purposes.In Western zone Maximum profit earned by respondents by practising Crops+Vegetables+Fruits+Dairy+Vermi-composting and generating a net income of Rs. 482778.7/- with an average land holding 5.72 acre, in. In Eastern zone respondents generating a net income of Rs. 477865.8/- on the same components with an average land holding 8.04 acres, system. Majority of respondents showed positive impact and reported that increase in household consumption, savings and family income after practising Integrated Farming System and Majority of respondents were highly satisfied with food and nutritional, health, agricultural and economic security. Some of the respondents reported personal, social, technical, financial and production constraints in integrated farming system.ThesisItem Open Access Impact assessment of RKVY project: Livelihood and food security of rural women through diversified agriculture activities(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-12) Anju; Dahiya, RajeshPresent study was conducted in Hisar and Bhiwani districts of Haryana state under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana project in department of EECM. Four trainings on the selected aspects of value addition in fruits and vegetables, bag making, post harvest management and value addition in cereals and handicrafts were organized under the project. Total 120 respondents from two districts covering four villages were selected randomly (30 from each training). Majority of the respondents belonged to 36-50 years of age, educated upto primary, joint family of medium size and general caste, marginal farmers, had low social media exposure and medium level of motivation. Training effectiveness index was measured in terms of utility and coverage of subject matter which was found highest for post harvest management and value addition in cereals (80.30%) followed by value addition in fruits and vegetables (78.58%), handicrafts (76.61%) and bag making (75.82%) for all selected trainings. Trainees were found highly satisfied with subject matter, physical facilities and quality of trainers. Training resulted in significant gain in knowledge, favourable attitude and high skill as compared to control group. Majority of the respondents adopted the technologies for household purpose. Respondents further disseminated the technology in the community. In experimental group, the respondents had significant gain in knowledge, favourable attitude and high skill acquisition regarding all components. In control group respondents had low level of knowledge and unfavourable attitude towards RKVY trainings. Impact assessment index was observed at moderately high level. Age and communication variables were found positively and significantly correlated with knowledge, social participation and communication variables positive and significant correlation with skill, entrepreneurial attitudinal change of the respondents. Some of the respondents perceived the constraints such as inability to compete with readymade products and lack of financial assistance in adoption of technology as an enterprise in rural areas.ThesisItem Open Access Livelihood status and social mobility among scheduled caste families in Hisar district(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-10) Ekta; Kaushik, SushmaThe present study was conducted purposively in Hisar district of Haryana state. Five villages having predominately large number (40%) of Scheduled Caste population as per census 2011 were randomly chosen. Forty SC families from each village were randomly selected to constitute a total sample size of 200 respondents Data regarding dependent and independent variables were collected with the help of pre tested interview schedule. The inferences were drawn on the basis of frequency; percentage weighted mean score and Pearson‘s coefficient of correlation. Results revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to 35 – 50 year of age, belonged to Chamar caste, were male headed family, were married, having nuclear families with medium family size. Majority of respondents were labor, having monthly family income between Rs.10,001-25,000, were above poverty line and perceived them to be at lower income level. Majority of families used electricity as a source of lighting, cow dung/wood as source of cooking fuel and piped water at home as source of water for drinking. Majority had flush toilets. Selected families had high mean human assets, medium level of house characteristics, family assets and communication assets. However possession of land and livestock, transportation assets and financial assets scored low. Social mobility data indicated that the literacy rate increased significantly over three generation. Work engagement of both genders increased from first to second generation. Significant improvements in their status were perceived by SC respondents over last few years Regarding overall livelihood status, it was negatively and significantly associated with age, while positively and significantly associated with family income, education status and information source utilization. Family size, occupation of head of family, family income, family education status and information source utilization were positively and significantly associated with social mobility. Livelihood status was found to be significantly and negatively correlated with social mobility.ThesisItem Open Access Adoption status of onion growers regarding pre and post-harvest management practices(CCSHAU,HiSAR, 2020) Amit; Bharat SinghThe study was conducted in Mewat and Ambala districts of Haryana state during 2018-2020. These districts have maximum area under onion cultivation. A total number of 120 onion growing farmers constituted the sample of the study. The information about respondent`s socio-personnel traits, knowledge level pertaining to pre and post-harvest management practices of onion, adoption level of pre and postharvest practices and constraints encountered by them in adoption of pre and post-harvest management practices were collected with the help of pre tested structured interview schedule. The study revealed that transportation, proper harvesting, maturity index, irrigation, weed control measures, time of sowing in nursery and time of transplanting were the practices about which majority of farmers had correct knowledge. Stop irrigation before 15 days of harvesting, insect pests and their control measures, curing, storage and diseases and their control measures were the practices about which majority of farmers had incorrect or insufficient knowledge. The overall knowledge level of respondents about pre and post-harvest management practices was medium to high since 85 per cent of respondents belonged to these categories and only 15 per cent farmers belonged to low knowledge category. The study also showed that transportation, maturity index, irrigation, time of sowing in nursery, time of transplanting, weed control measures and recommended seed rate were fully adopted practices by onion farmers whereas they had least adopted or not adopted the practices like diseases and their control, storage, curing, stoping irrigation before 15 days of harvesting, grading, insect pests and their control measures and precooling. The overall adoption level of pre and post-harvest management practices of onion growers was also found moderate to high since 80 per cent of the onion growers belonged to said categories. Regarding constraints faced by onion growers included lack of finance for purchase of inputs, high price of pesticides, lack of remunerative MSP policy by government, middleman malpractices, unskilled labour, no crop insurance coverage, lack of proper knowledge regarding post-harvest management practices as well lack of knowledge of these among field functionaries were very serious constraints experienced by the farmers. The government should seriously look into the problems faced by the onion growers and necessary steps or actions should be taken to formulate remunerative MSP policy and its implementation, affordable prices of insecticides and pesticides and organization of sufficient and proper training for both field functionaries and farmers to make the enterprise profitable and sustainable.ThesisItem Open Access Socio-economic impact of Bt. cotton growers in rural community of Haryana(CCSHAU,HiSAR, 2020-08) Sharma, Tanvi; Kathpalia, JateshCotton is the most important commercial crop of India contributing up to 75 percent of total raw material needed by textile industry and provides employment to about 60 million people. The study was conducted in Jind district of Haryana state. A total sample of 120 respondents was chosen from four villages of two blocks namely Jind and Alewa i.e. a sample of 30 respondents from each village was selected. In this study, the knowledge and adoption level of growing Bt. cotton among farmers, factors affecting level of knowledge and adoption and the socio-economic impact on Bt. cotton growers was assessed. Most of the respondents were belonging to 35-50 years of age group and were educated up to secondary level. It was revealed that respondents were having yield of Bt. cotton per ha. up to 8 q and 8.1-16 q with 46.67 percent and 49.17 percent respectively. Majority of them were having profit of Rs. 1,000-20,000 and were having low knowledge level with medium adoption level. There was positive and favourable attitude towards environmental aspects, economic aspects, social and technological aspects. Respondents had received a positive socio-economic impact on expenditure on education and social ceremonies, mass media exposure, quality of health services and yield. It was found that there was a positive correlation of age, education, size of land holding, annual income, subsidiary occupation of the family and mass media exposure with knowledge. And there was also positive correlation of size of land holding, annual income, mass media exposure and negative of subsidiary occupation of the family with adoption level. Lack of agriculture labour, high cost of seed, non-availability of inputs at village level, lack of irrigation facilities and low prices of farm production after harvesting time were found to be among the growers. Although Bt. cotton growing is beneficial for the farmers so it should be expanded among the cotton growers in order to get higher yield and benefits.ThesisItem Open Access Comparative analysis of wheat production technology adopted by Afghan and Indian farmers(CCSHAU,HiSAR, 2020-08) Abdul Rashid Mukhtarzai; Chahal, P.KA field study entitled “Comparative analysis of wheat production technology adopted by Afghan and Indian farmers” was conducted in Haryana and Punjab state of India, and Herat and Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, purposively since being GRAIN project a comparative study. Hisar (Haryana), Mansa (Punjab) districts from India, Injil (Herat) and Behsood (Nangarhar) districts from Afghanistan were selected purposively because these were among major wheat-growing districts in both the countries. Three villages were selected randomly from each district and thereby a total number of twelve villages were selected for the data collection. Keeping in view the number of wheat growers, a convenient sample size of 15 farmers from each village was selected randomly. So, a total number of 180 wheat growers were selected to constitute a sample of the study. The specific objectives of the present study were (1) To ascertain the farmers’ extent of knowledge, adoption and technological gap in wheat cultivation, (2) To find out the constraints faced by farmers in the adoption of wheat cultivation technology, (3) To establish a relationship between farmers' socio-personal traits and technological gap (4) To suggest an extension strategy based on findings to reduce the technological gap in wheat cultivation in Afghanistan. The data were collected through pretested structured interview schedule. Sixteen important independent variables, namely, age, education, land holding, family type, family size, family occupation, social participation, extension contact, mass media exposure, scientific orientation, farm implement, irrigation facilities, annual family income, source of information, marketing channels, risk orientation and change proneness and dependent variables, namely, knowledge, adoption and constraints perceived by the respondents in wheat production technology were studied. The study shows that in Afghanistan, most of the farmers were from middle aged group and small farmers, majority illiterate and used regularly canal but in critical time tube well as an irrigation source. Further it could be observed that majority of the respondents had low level of social participation, extension contact, mass media exposure, farm implements, training xvi received, source of information, marketing channels and change proneness, although some of them had medium category of socio-economic status, scientific orientation, irrigation facilities, annual family income (more than Rs. 100000/-) and risk orientation. In India, the study shows most of the farmers were from middle aged group and medium farmers, education up to matriculation and used both canal and tube well as an irrigation source and had owned land. Further it could be observed that majority of the respondents had medium level of socio-economic status, social participation, extension contact, mass media exposure, irrigation facilities, training received, source of information, marketing channels, risk orientation and change proneness, while some of them had high category of scientific orientation, farm implements and annual family income (more than Rs. 100000/-). Further, it was observed that majority of the respondents had either low knowledge or adoption level about wheat production technology of wheat in Afghanistan. But in India, majority of the respondents had either medium knowledge or adoption level about wheat production technology. The study revealed that in Afghanistan, among the constraints most serious constraints were Technical, input and production, financial and marketing, respectively, where in india among the constraints the most serious constraints were financial, input and production, technical and marketing, respectively. In case of association between the independent variables and adoption level of the respondents about wheat production technology, out of 16 independent variables in Afghanistan, four showed positive and highly significant, two showed positive and significant, nine showed positive and non- significant and one was negative and non-significant correlated with the adoption level of the respondents about wheat production technology. But in India, out of 16 independents variables, seven showed positive and highly significant, one showed negative and highly significant, two showed positive and significant, five showed positive and non-significant and one was negative and non-significant correlated with adoption level of wheat growers about wheat production technology.ThesisItem Open Access Impact assessment of Janani Suraksha Yojana among women of slum areas in Haryana(CCSHAU,HiSAR, 2020) Mini; Kundu, PoonamThe present study was conducted in Hisar & Fatehabad districts of Haryana state to study the extent of knowledge and use of Janani Suraksha Yojana among women of slum area. To draw samples, two slum areas were selected purposively representing Valmiki Basti, ShyamVihar Basti from Hisar and Ashok Nagar Basti, Shakti Nagar Basti from Fatehabad. Out of each selected slum areas, 30 respondents were selected at purpose thus making a total of 120 respondents. Independent variables were age, caste, education of respondents, education of husband, occupation, family income, type of house, family type, family size while dependents variables were impact assessment in terms of knowledge and use and situational variables were extent of awareness about the medical and paramedical facilities available in the community. Socio-economic and personal profile of respondents were revealed that majority of respondents were in the age group 23-27 years, belonged to backward class , had small family size residing in the slum area, majority of respondents were illiterate were having monthly income was 5,000-10,000. Status of respondent regarding marriage and pregnancy concluded that 99.17 per cent were married, 49.17 per cent of the respondents belonged to 19 – 21 years of age and having first pregnancy. It was found that majority of respondents had high knowledge and awareness about the scheme. Registration status revealed that most of the respondents had registered under JSY scheme for the safety of mother and child at the 1st trimester of pregnancy. Majority of respondents were satisfied with the services of ASHA/ANM and infrastructure facilities of the institution. Since JSY scheme is an incentive based and provide all the basic facilities required during pregnancy, respondents were quite satisfied with the working of JSY scheme. Secondly now they have money in their hand which they can purchase the required medicine for themselves and their child. They are also utilizing this amount in purchasing other necessary items. The results further highlights that the correlation was non-significant with all the independent variables whereas mass media exposure was significant with dependent variables .In nut shell the respondents were quiet satisfied with working of JSY scheme since they get all the basic facilities required during pregnancy. They are also happy because now the rate of mortality of mother as well as child has been reduced.ThesisItem Open Access Impact assessment of central sector scheme “Promotion of Agricultural Mechanization for in-situ Management of Crop Residue” in Haryana(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-09) Kaushik, Radha; Sabharwal, KantaThe study entitled Impact assessment of central sector scheme “Promotion of agricultural mechanization for in-situ management of crop residue” in Haryana. Study was conducted in two districts – Bhiwani and Kaithal, covering two blocks of each districts and two villages from each blocks with random sample techniques with 200 respondents. All respondents were aware about the scheme, mode of payment to beneficiaries, farm machinery banks or CHC, availability of machines in CHC. Knowledge of the respondents had a positive and significant correlation with education, change proneness, risk orientation, economic motivation and mass media sources. Majority of respondents had agreed attitude on establishment of CHC in villages are highly required and equipment are in reach of small and marginal farmers and timely availability of farm implements from CHC. Attitude of the respondents had a positive and significant correlation with education and land holding and negatively significant with age and farming experience. Majority of the respondents adopted Rotavator, Zero Till Seed-cum- Fertilizer drill machine, Super Straw Management System machines. Majority of the respondents fully adopted the mechanization for CRM to partial and least adopted. Overall impact index of the scheme was 86.0 percent. Some of the respondents faced personal, social, technical, financial and production constraints in the crop residue management.
