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ThesisItem Open Access Training needs of small and marginal farmers for integrated farming systems in Sri Muktsar Sahib district of Punjab(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Dildeep Singh; Riar, T.S.The present study was conducted to determine Training needs of small and marginal farmers for integrated farming systems in Sri Muktsar Sahib District of Punjab. Two blocks were selected from Sri Muktsar Sahib District i.e. Malout and Giddarbaha randomly. Further from two selected blocks, six villages from each block were selected randomly. From each village 10 farmers having the integrated farming system were selected randomly so the final sample consists of 120 respondents. The data were collected from these respondents with the help of structured interview schedule. It was observed that majority of the respondents i.e. 46.66 per cent belonged to young age category, majority of the respondents i.e. 33.33 per cent were educated and majority of the respondents i.e. 53.33 per cent of the respondents had medium land holdings. It was observed that majority of the respondents i.e. 51.66 per cent belonged to agriculture+ dairy enterprise. Majority of the respondents i.e. 83.33 per cent need training of Soil/water sampling and use of test reports most needed in vegetables. Training of varieties and their characteristics are most needed in wheat crop by 70.83 per cent of the respondents. Training of weed control was most needed in pulse crops by 74.16 per cent of the respondents. Nutrient recycling was most needed in case of pulses by 98.33 per cent of respondents. Disease management was most needed in case of dairy cattle i.e. 100 per cent. 83.86 per cent of self marketing was most needed in dairy cattle. Fishery system of integrated farming got first rank in need for training. Age and income were positive and significantly related with training needs.ThesisItem Restricted Effectiveness of dramatization for creating awareness regarding Safe use of pesticides(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Bilal; Sharma, Anil KumarThe present study entitled “Effectiveness of dramatization for creating awareness regarding safe use of pesticides” was undertaken with the objectives to study the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents, the effectiveness of technical street play and gain knowledge of the respondents, the association between socio-economic status of the respondents and gain in knowledge and their reaction. Five districts of Malwa region i.e. Ludhiana, Faridkot, Fazilka, Patiala and Mansa were selected purposively. From each district one village was selected and from each village thirty farmers were selected randomly. Thus, the sample of 150 farmers were selected for the study. The data were collected by personal interview method with the help of questionnaire. Further, the data were tabulated and analyzed by using appropriate statistical tools. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to the young age group having primary level of education, medium category of operational land holding. Majority of them had medium level of mass media exposure, medium level of extension contacts and medium use of ICT tools. Majority of them gained information regarding safe use of pesticides along with harmfulness of pesticides and overall knowledge regarding various aspects of agriculture. It was also found that the socio personal characteristics of the respondents like age, family size, operational land holding, mass media exposure, extension contact and ICT tools of the respondents was significantly associated with their reaction of street play on safe use of pesticides.ThesisItem Restricted Perspective of extension personnel and farmers regarding paddy and wheat residue burning in Punjab(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Lyngdoh, Lawanrisha; Dhaliwal, R.K.The research entitled “Perspective of extension personnel and farmers regarding paddy and wheat residue burning in Punjab” was undertaken with the objectives to study the perception and knowledge of extension personnel and farmers towards the effect of open burning in paddy and wheat cropping system, to identify the extension methods used by the extension personnel for the dissemination of various alternatives of paddy and wheat straw management and the constraints faced by the farmers in the adoption of paddy and wheat straw management alternatives and by the extension personnel in its dissemination along with suggestions. One hundred and fifty extension personnel (Agricultural Development Officers) were selected randomly from the state. From each zone, one district and further two villages were selected. From each village ten farmers were selected randomly. Thus, sixty farmers were selected randomly from three agro-climatic zones. The data was collected with the help of a questionnaire for the extension personnel and an interview schedule for the farmers. Findings of the study revealed that perception of the extension personnel and farmer respondents differ for the statements such as pest and pathogens can be controlled by straw burning, weeds can be controlled by open straw burning and burning of crop stubble decreases the yield of milk in milch animals as well as destroys forest trees while both respondents agreed that open burning of straw has a negative effect on plant health, air, human health, animal health, biodiversity, vehicular traffic and soil health. The study revealed that majority of the extension personnel and farmer respondents had medium level of knowledge regarding the economic effect of paddy straw, a high level of knowledge regarding environmental effect and medium level of knowledge regarding pictorial identification for paddy wheat straw management respectively. An overall analysis showed that majority of the respondents from both categories had medium level of knowledge. Personal visit and meetings/discussions were the most commonly employed methods by the extension personnel for the dissemination of various alternatives of paddy and wheat straw management. The findings revealed that the major constraints faced by the extension personnel in disseminating straw management alternatives were inadequate and irregular supply of funds, perceived ineffectiveness of technologies and lack of training facilities. While all the farmer respondents agreed that high transportation of the straw, high labour charges and crop residue interference with tillage and seeding operations were the major constraints in adoption of straw management techniques. The variables like education, service experience, extension contact, mass media and economic motivation showed a positive and highly significant correlation with knowledge while age of the farmer respondents was negatively and significantly correlated with knowledge. Also, a positive and significant relationship was found between the perception of the farmer respondents with education and ecological consciousness.ThesisItem Restricted Performance of Custom Hiring Services through Cooperative Agricultural Service Societies in Ludhiana District(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Dash, Shwetapadma; Prabhjot KaurThe present study entitled “Performance of custom hiring services through Cooperative Agricultural Service Societies in Ludhiana district” was undertaken to study the performance of custom hiring services through Cooperative Agricultural Service Societies, satisfaction level of farmers availing the services, the problems faced by the farmers in availing the services and their suggestions thereof. A sample of 5 Cooperative Agricultural Service Societies from Ludhiana district providing custom hiring services to the farmers were selected. A sample of 150 farmers who were availing the custom hiring services from these Cooperative Agricultural Service Societies was selected. It was observed from the study that Majority of the farmers were in the age group of 44 to 62 years, had educational level up to matric and medium to semi-medium operational landholding. Majority of the farmers had low to medium mass media exposure. Maximum number of farmers acquired information regarding custom hiring services from the officials of Cooperative Agricultural Service Societies. It was found that among all the 5 Cooperative Agricultural Service Societies 3 societies had high performance while one had average and one had low performance. Majority of the respondents had a high level of satisfaction regarding the custom hiring services (CHS). Regarding problems faced by the farmers while availing the CHS, non-availability of machines was a major problem cited by the farmers and nearly half of the farmers suggested that machines with high demand should be more in number.ThesisItem Restricted Performance of elected members of Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) in implementation and monitoring of development schemes in Punjab(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Shukla, Namita; Sidhu, KiranjotPanchyati Raj Institutes play a vital role in implementation and monitoring of government scheme like MGNREGA, IAY and NRLM. In this context, the study was designed to assess the knowledge of PRI members regarding selected schemes and expected roles to be performed by members of three tiers along with the assessment of their actual role performance. The study was conducted in purposively selected two blocks from each of four selected districts of Punjab State. Sample consisted of 96Gam Panchayat, 48 Panchayat Samiti and 40 Zila Parishad elected members. Data collected using interview schedule revealed that knowledge of ZP members was highest both regarding the schemes and the roles to be performed. Members of different tiers differed significantly in their overall knowledge of the schemes , roles and their actual role performance. Education, media exposure, income of PRI members, family income, land ownership and previous experience of PRI members in system was significantly related with their knowledge of scheme and expected role along with the actual role performance. Age affected the actual role performance. Organisational membership, previous PRI involvement status was found to be significantly related to knowledge. Knowledge and actual role performance were positively and significantly related with each other. Lack of information was the major problem cited by the members and they suggested that capacity building exercises should be organized with enhanced use of ICT. There should be a horizontal and vertical flow of information through organization of workshops/ interactions before and after implementation of development schemes.ThesisItem Open Access Awareness and Opinion of Stakeholders Regarding Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) and Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) in Punjab(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Wahab Zada, Ahmad Mubasher; Mohapatra, LopamudraThe study entitled “Awareness and Opinion of Stakeholders Regarding Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) and Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) in Punjab” was undertaken with the objectives to ascertain the awareness of WBCIS and PMFBY among the stakeholders i.e. scientists, extensionists and progressive farmers, study the opinion of stakeholders regarding the design and implementation of WBCIS and PMFBY and instigate the opinion of the progressive farmers on factors related to their purchase decision of WBCIS and PMFBY in Punjab. A total of 60 scientists were randomly selected as respondents for the study from PAU, Ludhiana along with 30 extensionist from the list of trainees of Punjab Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (PAMETI), Ludhiana during the last one year. A total of 60 progressive farmers were selected from the four farmers’ associations of PAU viz. Progressive Beekeepers’ Association, Tree growers’ Association, PAU Kisan Club and Nursery Growers’ Association. The data was collected with help of interview schedules constructed for different stakeholders. Findings of the study revealed that majority of the scientists were aware about the features of PMFBY and WBCIS like coverage of crops, risk coverage, etc. A similar trend of awareness was found among the extensionist. The awareness level of farmers regarding the features of PMFBY and WBCIS was found to be relatively low as compared to scientists and extensionist. The overall degree of acceptance of the farmers for WBCIS was considered relatively higher than PMFBY since majority of the product features of WBCIS were more acceptable to the farmers. The findings also revealed that there was a significant difference in opinion between the scientists and extensionists regarding the factors related to the designing of WBCIS and PMFBY. The restructured WBCIS was comparatively preferred more over PMFBY. The degree of willingness to buy WBCIS was found to be more since the basic risk is weather index. A significant difference was found in the opinion of scientists and extensionists regarding the implementation of PMFBY in Punjab. While there was no significant difference in the opinion of scientists and extensionists on factors related to the implementation of WBCIS. It can be concluded that WBCIS with certain modifications can be recommended into the agricultural policy of the Punjab state as it can act as a major adaptation strategy for the changing climate in the state.ThesisItem Open Access Job satisfaction of government school teachers of Ludhiana district(2018) Garbyal, Swati; Sukhjeet KaurThe study entitled “Job satisfaction of government school teachers of Ludhiana district” was undertaken with objectives to study different job components of government school teachers, their level of job satisfaction, interrelationship among profile of the teacher, job component and their level of job satisfaction and to seek suggestions to enhance the level of job satisfaction. The study was conducted in two rural blocks Doraha and Pakkowal, and in two urban zones Ludhiana-east and Ludhiana-west of Ludhiana district of Punjab. Results of the study revealed that majority of the respondents had medium level of job satisfaction. It was found that ‘feeling of achievement’ was most important dimension of intrinsic (motivation) factor and ‘social status attached to job’ was the most important dimension of extrinsic (hygiene) factor. Age, education level, family size and total service experience in case of urban school teachers had significant positive correlation with job satisfaction while in case of rural school teachers, only education level was significantly positively correlated with job satisfaction. Family occupation and designation of rural school teachers had significant association with job satisfaction. Whereas in urban area, school teachers had significant association between job satisfaction and family type, family occupation and designation. ‘Promotion to next class on the basis of students performance’ was the important suggestion to improve job satisfaction followed by ‘filling up vacant posts’ and ‘provision of power backup in the school’.ThesisItem Open Access Usage pattern of mobile phone applications(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Mittal, Palak; Sidhu, KiranjotThe study entitled “Usage pattern of mobile phone application” was undertaken to analyze the usage pattern of mobile phone applications amongst users to analyze the usage pattern of mobile phone applications for different purposes, to identify the factors influencing the selection and usage pattern of mobile phone applications and to analyze the gender and area variation in the usage pattern. Data was collected through personal interviews from 300 respondents drawn from rural, peri urban and urban area of Ludhiana district of Punjab state with equal representatives from both genders. All the 36 categories of apps present in Google Play were categorized into 9 major categories namely entertainment, education, social networking/communication, photography/ videography, online shopping/ booking, information, personal usage, tools/utilities and finance to investigate the usage pattern. It was found that majority of the respondents were in the age group of 29-39 years, married, belonged to nuclear and service class families, users of android operating system and having 20-36 apps in their mobile phones. Area, gender, age education, marital status, occupation and family annual income were found to have significant relationship with number of mobile apps in user’s phone. All the respondents had social networking/communication apps while least had educational apps in their phones. Mobile compatibility, cost and ease of use were found to be the most influencing and memory occupied by the application the least influencing factor affecting the choice of an app. Applications were used for other than their predefined purpose also. Amongst them entertainment, social networking/ communication and photography/ videography apps were used for six different purposes while information category is used for least number of other purposes. Purpose of using personal usage and finance applications were significantly related with area but in case of entertainment and educational applications association was significant with both area and gender. Comprehensive, valuable and practical content, availability of the content in different languages and in the form of videos and audios was important suggestions given by users for preparing application for extension and educational purposes.ThesisItem Open Access Status and prospects of organised and unorganised potato seed producers in Punjab(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2018) Lakhwinder Singh; Dharminder SinghThe present study entitled “Status and prospects of organised and unorganised potato seed producers in Punjab” was conducted in a cluster of three major potato seed producing districts of Punjab i.e. Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala. A sample of 180 respondents comprising 90 organised and 90 unorganised potato seed producers were selected. It was found that majority of the organised and unorganised respondents were in the age group of 40-55 years and having joint families with average size 4-6 members and had large operational land holding. Majority of the respondents had medium level of risk bearing capacity, economic motivation and innovativeness. Study revealed that majority of the respondents had adopted recommended potato varieties at their fields. More number of organised farmers obtained seed from govt. sources like CPRI (30.00%) and PAU in comparison to unorganised farmers and used foundation and certified seed for multiplication. Organised respondents planted their crops earlier. Majority (91.11%) of organised respondents performed dehaulming at 60-80 DAS, while majority of unorganised respondents (55.56%) performed dehaulming at 100-120DAS. On an average, organised respondents applied more number of sprays of insecticides (1.82) and fungicides (2.06) to produce quality potato seed as compared to 1.60 and 1.80 in case of unorganised respondents. Organised potato seed producers usually graded their produce for distant markets of other states and were not much dependent on middleman for selling their produce. About 37.77 per cent of unorganised and 13.33 percent of organised expressed their desire to decrease 9.0 and 1.29 per cent area under potato seed production in future, respectively. Non-remunerative prices, lack of regulated markets, nonavailability of storage facilities, price fluctuation in the markets, high cost of seed and nonavailability of quality seed were major problems faced by the respondents.
