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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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    ROLE OF RURAL WOMEN IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2004) SHETTAR, SAVITHA S; BADIGER, CHHAYA
    ABSTRACT NOT AVAILABLE
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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."
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    HISTOLOGY AND HISTOCHEMISTRY OF THE ENDOCRINE ORGANS OF THE INDIAN DONKEY (Equus as in us)
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2001) Pawar, Ashok; Ramakrishna, V
    "The present study on the histology and histochemistry of the endocrine organs viz. pineal , Pituitary , thyroid , parathyroid and adrenal gland in the young and adult Indian donkey to know the cytoarchitecture and histochemical characterstics of the cells with their location and functional status. The gross morphological studies revealed the location and position of various endocrine organs in the Indian donkey. Histologically, the pineal gland consisted of pinealocytes, me lanocytes and glial cells in the parenchyma. Th e presence of two types of pinealoc ytes indicate the functional status of the gland. The pituitary gland consisted of a d e n oh yp op h y sis and neurohypophys is. The a d e n o h yp o p h y s is consisted of acidophils, basophils and ch romo p h o be s . Neu ro hyp o ph y s is consisted of pituicytes and neuroglial cells. Herring bodies were noticed in the n ear blood vessels. Thyroid gland mainly consisted of small, me d ium and large follicle Vi/ith blood vessels and parafollicular cells. The presence of small follicles were more in n umb e r and lineu by cuboidal epithelium in young donkey. Large follicles lined by tlat epithelium with loss or no colloid indicatGd ttu? aclivily of the gland. Parathyroid gland consisted, oxyphil,two types pf cliie f cells and parafollicular cells. Th e adrenal gland was consisted of outer cortex, middle g a nglionic and medulla. Epinephrine and norepinephrine cells were noticed in the niedulla. Histochemically. Histochemically the pinealocytes of the pineal, basophils and neurosecretory substances (Herring bodies) o f pituitary, colloid o f tlie thyroid, chief cells and oxyphil cells of parathyroid and zona arcuata and zona reticularis of adrenal gland showed PAS positive reaction. Pinealocytes of pineal, basophils of pituitary, follicular epithelium and colloid o f follicles, chief cells o f parathyroid and ganglionic cells o f the adrenal gland were alcian blue (pH 2.5) positive. No significant difference in the histology and histochemistry between young and adult Indian donkey endocrine glands except pineal and thyroid gland."
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    INVOLVEMENT OF RURAL WOMEN IN NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCT (NTFP) ACTIVITIES
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2003) Paloti, Lakshmi M; Hiremath, Uma S
    "The present study was conducted in the year 2002-2003 in Dharwad taluk with a sample size of 150 rural women engaged in NTFP activities and collected data on dependency on NTFPs, socio-economic characteristics, participation and time spent pattern in the collection, processing, storage, preservation, marketing and income earned by NTFPs, constraints faced and suggestions for improvement of NTFP activities with the help of pre-tested structured schedule. The results of the study revealed that majority of the rural women were middle age, married, illiterates, farm labourers, landless, belonged to medium income group, backward caste, nuclear family with medium family size, living in mixed type of house and contact urban places once in a week. Majority of the rural women had low level of mass media participation, extension contact and high level of organisational participation. Majority of the rural women (42.00%) were dependent on Muttala leaves (Butea monosperma) followed by fuelwood (20.67%), pongamia seeds (19.33%) and edible gum (17.33%). Highest participation was noticed in the processing, storage, preservation and marketing of NTFP than the NTFP collection. Women spent maximum time of 251.17 minutes per day and 94.00 days in a year in the collection of forest produce. Maximum income obtained from baskets per season was (Rs. 9150/-) followed by fuelwood (Rs.5145/-), grassbrooms (Rs.2955/-) and leaf meal plates (Rs.2880/-). Local and nearby city markets were the main marketing place whereas agents, wholesalers and selling on their own were found to be the prominent marketing channels. Major constraints faced by the rural women were lack of proper marketing system (96.00%) and depletion of flora (91.33%). Important suggestions were to avoid exploitation by middlemen (93.33%), implementation of programmes for forest regeneration and adequate trainings/demonstrations to develop value added products."
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    DOCUMENTATION, AWARENESS AND USAGE OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MEDICINAL PLANTS
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2002) Kotegouder, Roopa S; Nagnur, Shobha
    "The present study on documentation, awareness and usage of indigenous knowledge about medicinal plants was carried out for six common ailments namely, cold, cough, fever, diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach ache the study was conducted in Haveri district of Kamataka State. Data for documentation was collected by the focus group discussion method in 14 villages. The documented remedies revealed the use of a number of plant material like tulsi, ginger, coriander, cassia auriculata, sweet flag, betel leaf for cold: marking nut, bitter gourd, eucalyptus, white onion with omium, turmeric with honey, adhatoda with honey etc. for cough; centratherom with jaggary, adhatoda, clove, coriander and pepper, Indian birthwrot with milk bush, heart leaves, neem leaves, centratherum with bael and coriander and lemon grass with milk & sugar etc. to control fever: chakrani beru, pomegranate, banana, roasted bengal gram, black tea with lemon, liquorice and menthol for diarrhoea. Dill seeds and coriander seeds for vomitting, bezoamut, tanner's cassia, yakki leaves, nutmeg, aloe, baniyan leaves etc to control stomach ache. The method of preparation, form of medicine and dosage were also noted. Documented remedies were listed and further data was collected from 210 randomly selected rural women (from seven villages) were not participants in the Focus Group Discussion to know their awareness and pattern of usage. The fmdings of the present study revealed that most documented remedies find support from reportings of eminent ayurvedic practitioners and plant scientists. The data on awareness and usage shows that awareness was generally higher than the actual usage. The use of remedies where ingredients were available in the kitchen was more when compared to those purchased from the market."
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    PARTICIPATION OF RURAL WOMEN IN WOOL PRODUCTION
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2002) Nukapur, Bhagyashri Y; Badiger, Chhaya
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    INVOLVEMENT OF RURAL WOMEN IN SELECTED POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2002) Masali, Kavita C.; Hiremanth, Uma S
    "The present study was conducted in the year 2001-2002 in Dharu^ad district with a sample size of 120 beneficiaries of selected NGO Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF) under the Jana Uthan and Shakti Schemes who had taken income generating activity as a venture and collected data on socio-personal characteristics, knowledge and opinion towards the programme, economic benefits derived, problems faced and suggestions for improvement of the programme, with the help of pretested structured schedule. The results of the study revealed that majority of the beneficiaries were young age, illiterates, single, landless, above poverty line group, belonged to forward caste, nuclear family with small family size and living in mixed type of house. Majority were possessing radio. A sizeable percentage of the beneficiaries had medium level of social participation, extension participation and mass media participation. Majority of the beneficiaries (48.33%) had medium level of knowledge and exhibited highly favourable opinion (35.83%) towards the programme. Knowledge about the programme was positively and significantly related. Opinion towards the programme was positive!}- and significanUy related with education, social participation and extension participation. Dairy enterprise was most preferred subsidiary occupation followed by nursery raising. Higher cost benefit ratio was obtained from vermi composting (1:4.30) followed by dairy enterprise (1:3.60) and tailoring (1:3.20). Cent percent of the beneficiaries were in the habit of saving money, ;or the purpose to expand the financial base, for education of children and to expand their business activity in order of preference. Major constraints faced by the beneficiaries were difficulty in starting new activities (35.00%) and insufficient credits (31.67%). Important suggestions were to provide additional loan, supply of animal feeds at low cost and adequate training for effective implementation of income generating activities through Poverty Alleviation Programmes."
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    IMPACT OF SELECTED NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION ON RURAL WOMEN
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2001) Tasneem Sulthana, D; Badiger, Chhaya
    "The present study was conducted to know the awareness, opinion, participation and adoption levels of respondents towards the selected NGO (SAI), operating in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. The information from 150 beneficiaries and 50 non-beneficiaries was collected during 2000-2001. The major findings were majority (58.66%) of beneficiaries were of young age group, most (73.34%) of them were illiterates, about 57.34 per cent of them belonged to joint family. Major occupation of 67.34 per cent of beneficiaries was agricultural and 32.66 per cent of them were land less. Majority (71.34%) of the beneficiaries had medium level of extension contact, about 82.56 per cent of beneficiaries had medium level of extension participation and about 44 per cent of them had medium level of mass media participation. Majority (62.56%) of beneficiaries and (54.00%) non-beneficiaries had medium level of awareness about SAL Majority (48.56%) of beneficiaries and (58.00%) non-beneficiaries exhibited favourable opinion towards SAI. Majority (74.50%) of beneficiaries had medium level of participation in the activities of NGO. M (74.50%) had medium level of adoption. The selected independent variables like education, extension contact and extension participation had positive and significant relationship with awareness level of beneficiaries. Independent variables namely extension participation had negative and significant relationship with opinion level of beneficiaries, whereas mass media participation had positive and significant relationship with the opinion level of nonbeneficiaries. Independent variables namely age had negative and significant relationship with participation level of beneficiaries, whereas education and extension contact had positive and significant relationship with adoption level of beneficiaries. The major problems encountered by the beneficiaries were repayment of loan (73.33'M)) and lack of adequate training facilities (60.00%). Major suggestions made by the beneficiaries were to increase the loan amount (80.00'K)) and training in dirfcrcnl income generation activilics (53.33%)."