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University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad

The University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad was established on October 1, 1986. The University has 5 Colleges, 27 Research Stations, 6 Agriculture Extension Education Centers, 6 Krishi Vigyan Kendras and ATIC. The University has its jurisdiction over 7 districts namely Bagalkot, Belgaum, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, and Uttar Kannada in northern Karnataka. Greater diversity exists in soil types, climate, topography cropping and farming situations. The jurisdiction includes dry-farming to heavy rainfall and irrigated area. Important crops of the region include sorghum, cotton, rice, pulses, chilli, sugarcane, groundnut, sunflower, wheat, safflower etc. The region is also known for many horticultural crops. Considerable progress has been registered in the field of education, research and extension from this University.

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    A STUDY ON IMPACT OF TRAINING ON SELECTED HOME-SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2000) Chikkannavar, Nirmala; Gavimath, Uma S
    "A study on impact of training on selected home-science technologies was conducted in the year 1999-2000 in five villages of Dharwad taluk with a sample of 125 rural women who had undergone training on tailoring, agarbatti-making and candle making conducted by the College of Rural Home-Science Dharwad, during 1998-99 were personally interviewed and collected data on their knowledge level, extent of adoption and constraints in adoption of these technologies by using pre-tested schedule. Results revealed that majority of the respondents of tailoring (42.85%) belonged to high level knowledge category. They had appropriate knowledge about drafting on wrong side (91.43%) and washing the cotton fabrics before drafting (88.57%). In case of agarbattimaking 43.75 per cent of respondents belonged to high level knowledge category and had appropriate knowledge about use of bamboo sticks (89.58%) and drying of agarbatti in shade (87.80%). More than fifly per cent of the respondents of candle making belonged to medium level of knowledge category and they had appropriate knowledge about the use of metal mould for candle making (97.62%) and smearing of the mould with coconut and groundnut oil (88.10%). A higher per cent of respondents of tailoring (42.82%) belonged to high level of adoption category and adopted construction of cloth in warpwise (71.43%). Majority of respondents (56.25%) of agarbatti-making belonged to low level adoption category. In case of candle-making adoption was nil. Age, annual income and occupation of the respondents were significantly associated with the knowledge of tailoring, whereas extension contact was significantly associated with the knowledge of candle making. None of the variables studied were associated with the knowledge of agarbatti-making. Adoption of tailoring was significantly associated with family income. Family type, occupation and extension contact of the respondents exhibited significant association with adoption of agarbatti-making. Majority of rural women expressed lack of finsmcial assistance as major constraint in adoption of tailoring. Non-availability of raw materials, marketing facilities, financial assistance, lack of human resource were the major constraints in adoption of agarbatti and candlemaking."