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Subject: Agricultural Extension × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2015 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Farmers’ Perception towards Climate Vulnerability and Barriers for Adaptation in Jabalpur district, Madhya Pradesh
    (Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 2018) Shrivastava, Varsha; Khare, Nalin Kumar
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    Impact of agricultural technology management agency on socio-economic upliftment on tribal farmers in Madhya Pradesh
    (Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya Jabalpur, 2017) Sharma, Ashutosh; Khare, N.K.
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    Determinants of livelihood patterns among rural youth in Jabalpur district of Madhya pradesh, India
    (JNKVV, 2015) Umunnakwe, Victor Chibuzor; Pyasi, V.K.
    ABSTRACT Many rural youth are faced with difficulty of maintaining livelihoods and consequently, poverty remains pervasive among them. The importance of income generating activities to rural livelihood cannot be over-emphasized. The study looked into socio-economic, psychological and communicational factors influencing rural youth’s involvement in both agricultural and non- agricultural livelihood activities in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh, India. Multi-stage random sampling was used to collect data from 247 respondents through interview schedule. Frequency counts and percentages were used to present data while Pearson product moment correction (PPMC) and regression analysis were used to test relationships. The results revealed that majority of the respondents were from other backward caste (66%), married (72.10%), conservative (59.11%), fatalistic (56.28%), aspired no further education (53.00%), belonged to joint (57.90%) and medium (50.60%) size families as well as families that were self-employed in agriculture (59.50%). Higher percentages of the respondents and their fathers were educated up to higher school and above, had medium rural life preference, economic motivation, innovativeness and socio-political participation. In addition, higher percentages of the respondents had high media exposure, urban contact and aspired business as their preferred occupation as well as low extension participation. Huge majority (75.71%) of the respondents participated in cereal production while more than half of the respondents were involved in pulse production (56.28%) and petty trading (53.44%). Marital status, respondents’ education, employment status, fatalism-scienticism, mass media exposure and extension contact were predictors of involvement in both agricultural as well as non-agricultural livelihood activities. Factors like innovativeness, family size, conservatism-liberalism, socio-political participation and reasons for educational and vocational training influenced only involvement in agricultural livelihood activities while determinants of involvement in non-agricultural livelihood activities included family occupation, rural life preference, achievement motivation and economic motivation. There was significant relationship between involvement in total livelihood activities and socio- economic/psychological characteristics (R2=0.475). Marital status (t=2.913), respondents’ education (t=-3.467), employment status (t=3.770), achievement motivation (t=2.719), innovativeness (t=3.321), fatalism-scienticism (t=- 3.707), mass media exposure (t=8.469) and reasons for educational and vocational training (t=5.122) were predictors of rural youth’s involvement in livelihood activities (agricultural and non-agricultural) at 1 percent significant level while more than 1/3 of the total accountable variation was explained by mass media exposure. Marital status; fathers’ educational attainment; family type, Achievement motivation, risk orientation, economic motivation, innovativeness, educational aspiration, occupational aspiration, conservatism- liberalism, fatalism-scienticism, mass media exposure, urban contact, extension contact, extension participation and socio-political participation had significant relationships with involvement in livelihood activities. Inter correlations among independent variables showed that caste was related to marital status and educational attainment while achievement motivation, risk orientation, economic motivation and innovativeness were found to be positively inter-correlated among each other. Inadequate finance and lack of marketing facilities were among the prominent constraints to livelihood activities. From the findings of this research, It was concluded that some socio-personal, psychological and communicational factors influence livelihood patterns of rural youth in the study area. The study therefore recommends that separate agricultural extension unit be established to cater for youth’s needs in agricultural production which is presently subsumed in general extension delivery. The significant variables of the present study should be considered by rural development policy makers when undertaking programmes aimed at enhancing rural youth’s livelihoods.