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    Information need Identification and Source Preferences for Home and Farm Management by Rural Women
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-10) Patil, Shivaleela; Nithyashree, D.A.
    Rural women play the dual roles of managing the farm as well as home affairs. Need of information is vital to rural women as it is a critical input for modernizing of farm production and home management in rural areas. Sources of information are tools that can possibly meet the information needs of rural women. The present study on "Information need identification and source preferences for home and farm management by rural women" has been conducted in Dharwad and Kundagol taluks of Dharawad district during the year 2017-18. Total of 150 rural women were selected for the study. Personal interview method was used to collect the data and suitable statistical tools were used for analyzing the data. The study revealed that most the respondents were middle aged with low level of education and belonged to nuclear, small sized families with medium land holding. Most of the respondents need information on preparation of handicrafts-knitting, crochet, embroidery (94.00 %), care of pregnant and lactating women (92.66 %), preparation of consumer chemicals-soaps & detergents, phenyl (90.66 %), information about training institutions (90.00 %) related to home management. In case of farm management, 79.33 per cent of the women need information on vegetable cultivation, high yielding varieties (76.00 %) and dairy farming (65.33 %). The sources preferred for seeking home management information was family members (95.33%), department of women & child welfare (82.00 %) and television (41.33 %). Neighbors (87.33%), cooperative society (37.33 %) and krishimela (34.00 %) were the sources preferred for farm management information. With regard to utilization pattern of information, most of the respondents utilized information from informal sources compared to formal and mass media sources. Hence there is need to provide information to rural women through preferred sources to update their knowledge in various fields.
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    Anganwadi Workers Knowledge Regarding Children’s Growth and Development and their Job Satisfaction
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2017-06) Akshatha; Sankangoudar, Surekha
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    Diffusion and Innovation-Decision Process of Home Science Technologies
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2017-06) Paloti, Lakshmi M.; Nagnur, Shobha
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    A Critical Analysis of Managerial Leadership Among Panchayat Development Officers (PDOs) of Northern Karnataka
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-06) Tamgale, Geeta S.; Badiger, Chhaya
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    Effectiveness of Nutrition Teaching Modules on Students of Rural Junior Colleges
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-05) Kapri, Anju; Hiremath, Uma S.
    The study was undertaken in the year 2016-17 in Dharwad district of Karnataka state and Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand state with a sample size of 300 (150 from each district) rural junior college students to know the effectiveness of nutrition teaching modules. An education intervention of before and after experimental design was provided on nutrition and health for three groups viz., controlled group with lecture + discussion, treated group-1 with module 1 (lecture + PPT + discussion) and treated group-2 with module 2 (lecture + video clipping + discussion). The effectiveness of teaching modules was measured in terms of knowledge gain by assessing pre and post test with the help of questionnaire. An analysis of the data indicated that in Dharwad taluk, majority of colleges having proper facilities of furniture (86.70 %), sufficient number of classrooms (83.30 %) and good teachers (82.00 %). In Pithoragarh taluk, cent per cent of the colleges having proper facilities regarding sufficient number of classrooms, adequate books in library, proper facility of computer laboratory and internet facilities. Relationship of independent variables and knowledge about nutrition and health showed that, amongst all the variables, study habits, mothers education and family size showed highly significant relationship with the knowledge of the students. With regard to effectiveness of nutrition teaching modules, overall effectiveness of teaching modules showed that after post test, gain in knowledge of the students with module-2 was found to be highest in terms of index i.e., from 38.22 to 60.81 (knowledge gain of 22.59) in Dharwad taluk and from 42.59 to 75.66 (knowledge gain of 33.07) in Pithoragarh taluk regarding nutrition and health. This clearly indicated that intervention programme with module-2 was found to be more effective in imparting knowledge to rural junior college students in both Dharwad and Pithoragarh taluk of Karnataka and Uttarakhand.
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    Job Satisfaction and Job Performance of Rural School Teachers
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-06) Chaithra V.K.; Hiremath, Uma S.
    The study was undertaken in the year 2016-17 in Dharwad and Kalaghatagi taluks of Dharwad district of Karnataka to analyze job satisfaction and job performance of rural school teachers. The data was collected with the help of pre-tested questionnaire from 150 rural school teachers. More number of the rural school teachers belonged to middle age group (63.34 %), female (63.33 %), completed degree with additional qualification of D.Ed. or B.Ed. (36.00 %), married (90.67 %), rural background (42.00 %), 12-20 years of experience (41.33 %) and attended 1-2 trainings (64.67 %). Majority of the rural school teachers were in high achievement motivation (78.67 %), low job stress (84.00 %) and had favourable organizational climate (76.67 %). With regard to job satisfaction, seventy per cent of the rural school teachers were in high job satisfaction category followed by medium category (30.00 %). In case of job performance, more number of the respondents belonged to high job performance category (73.33 %) followed by medium category (22.67 %). None of them were in low job satisfaction and performance category. The independent variable job stress was found to be highly significant but negatively related with job satisfaction of rural school teachers. With respect to job performance, education of the respondents had significant but negative relationship and job stress was highly significant but negatively related. Only job satisfaction showed positive and highly significant relationship with the job performance of rural school teachers. The main constraints with basic facilities were lack of drinking water, lack of teaching aids, no sufficient building and play ground for schools. The problems expressed with colleagues were lack of coordination, cooperation and adjustment. Less guidance, unnecessary record enquiry, lack of freedom for free discussion with higher officers, difficult to take care of children and family responsibilities were other problems.
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    Knowledge and Attitude of Rural and Urban Women About Bhagyalaxmi Scheme for Girl Child
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-06) Rathod, Bhagyashree; Nithya Shree, D.A.
    A study to analyze the knowledge and attitude of rural and urban women about Bhagyalaxmi scheme for girl child was undertaken by the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad during 2016-17 in Dharwad and Bagalkot districts of Karnataka. Primary data was collected with self-structured schedule from 180 beneficiaries’ parents and 30 anganwadi workers. The overall knowledge index of rural mothers and rural fathers about Bhagyalaxmi scheme was 43.30 and 41.68 respectively. The overall knowledge index of urban mothers and fathers about Bhagyalaxmi scheme was 40.31 and 44.75 respectively. The overall knowledge with regard to anganwadi workers about Bhagyalaxmi scheme index was 81.30. There was no significant difference observed between the overall knowledge of rural and urban beneficiaries’ parents about Bhagyalaxmi scheme. Significant difference was found in case of knowledge of anganwadi workers and all the other four groups as indicated by ‘F’ value (89.10*). 97.78 per cent of rural beneficiaries’ mothers and cent per cent of the rural beneficiaries’ fathers had more favorable attitude towards Bhagyalaxmi scheme. Cent per cent of the urban beneficiaries’ parents and anganwadi workers had more favorable attitude towards Bhagyalaxmi scheme. There was positive and significant relationship found between knowledge and education of the beneficiaries’ mothers, whereas in case of beneficiaries’ fathers education and mass media participation had positive and highly significant relationship with knowledge. Beneficiaries’ parents expressed constraints of delay in getting the bond. The constraints faced by anganwadi workers were excessive record maintenance and heavy work load after implementation of Bhagyalaxmi scheme. Suggestions given by the beneficiaries’ parents were benefit amount should be increased and the bonds should be issued in time. Anganwadi workers also suggested to increase the incentives amount as well as to provide the incentives amount in time.
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    Rural Women Entrepreneurship in Allied Agricultural Activities
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-07) Karigar, Gayatri; Nagnur, Shobha
    The present investigation was undertaken in Dharwad and Belagavi districts of North Karnataka during 2016-2017. From each of the two districts 80 women respondents were selected for the study. Out of these, 40 were entrepreneurs and 40 were non-entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs were selected by purposive snow ball sampling method while non-entrepreneurs were selected by simple random sampling method. The total sample was 160 respondents. The data were collected by personal interview method with the help of a well-structured pre-tested interview schedule. The profile of the respondent women revealed that most entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs were in the middle age category (62.50 % and 65.00 % respectively), from nuclear families (77.50 % and 80.00 % respectively). Most respondents were from small families and were married. Entrepreneurs had more land holdings than non-entrepreneurs. The average family income of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs was between Rs. 34,000 - 51,000. Both the groups of respondents were having agriculture as their family occupation (76.25 % and 68.75 % entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs respectively). Extension participation of both the groups was however low. Among the agriculture and allied enterprises selected by rural women the most popular enterprise was dairy (91.25 %), this was followed by vegetable cultivation (23.75 %), poultry (10.00 %), goat rearing (8.75 %), floriculture (7.50 %), sericulture (5.00 %), sheep rearing and fruit cultivation (3.75 % each) and beekeeping (1.25 %). The calculated indices for the different variables showed that the index for overall entrepreneurial quality of entrepreneurs was 64.86 and of non-entrepreneurs was only 43.26 per cent. The empowerment indices of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs were 43.86 and 38.97 respectively. The quality of life indices of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs was 57.19 and 48.65 respectively. Thus indicating that entrepreneurs had better entrepreneurial qualities, were more empowered and had better quality of life than the non-entrepreneurs.
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    Knowledge and Usage of Phones and Internet in Mobiles by Rural Youth
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-06) Karigar, Pavitra Ashok; Nithya Shree, D.A.
    Study on knowledge and usage of phones and internet in mobiles by rural youth was conducted in College of Rural Home Science, UAS, Dharwad in the year 2016-17 covering Dharwad and Karwar districts of Karnataka. Ex-post-facto research design was used. 120 girls and 120 boys from four different PUC and Degree colleges were purposively selected. The data collected through self-structured schedule and statistically analyzed using percentage, correlation, chi-square and Garrett ranking. Awareness and knowledge of rural girls and boys regarding mobile phone features found as high but in case of usage, boys usage index was 93.03 and girls was 84.16. The boys and girls had significant association in case of usage of mobile phones. The result of the study revealed that around three fourth of the rural youth (73.83 %) were possessing their own mobile phones and one fourth of the rural youth (26.17 %) were not owning it. Most of the youth were receiving pocket money and spending almost half of it on mobile phones. There was positively significant difference between the calls received by boys and girls in case of family, friends and total. Cent per cent of rural youth were pre-paid users. Both boys and girls of rural areas have given first priority for social networks and have given equal priorities on camera & gallery as IV, FM radio as XI, calculator as XII, alarm & calendar as XIII. Girls have given second priority to internet and third priority for playing games and it is vice versa with the boys. The opinion index with regard to gender discrimination of parents in usage of mobile phones was low in case of both girls (29.67) and boys (33.00). Usage of mobile phones had positive and significant relationship with monthly expenditure on mobile phones, academic achievement and monthly pocket money.