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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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Subject: Home Science Extension Education × Start date: 2010 × End date: 2016 ×
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    Adoption of Selected Home Science Technologies in Northern Karnataka
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2016-06) Patil, Shivaleela P.; Sankangoudar, Surekha
    The study was undertaken in the year 2015-2016 in Belgum, Dharwad and Haveri districts of Northern Karnataka with the sample size of 120 rural women (SHG members) to know their knowledge level, extent of adoption, problems in adoption and information needs of rural women about home science technologies. Majority of rural women had medium level of knowledge with respect to developmental mile stones and stimulating play materials (55.00 %), importance of food and food pyramid (54.16 %), consumer education and standard signs (36.66 %) and stain removal (48.33 %). Higher per cent of rural women had medium level of adoption with respect to developmental mile stones and stimulating play materials (45.83 %), importance of food and food pyramid (45.00 %), consumer education and standard signs (43.33 %) and stain removal (45.00 %). Results showed that regarding adoption of home science technologies for all the technologies under study 43-45 per cent of women belonged to the medium category of adoption. Majority of rural women expressed the problems on expensive to purchase sophisticated toys, lack of storage facilities for perishable food, non- availability of fruits and vegetables in local market, difficulty in understanding the signs and symbols used on products and lack of time respectively. Regarding information needs, most of the rural women expressed the information needs on agarbatti making, followed by soap powder making, value addition to food products, marketing of food products, decorative items and mending and repairing of cloths, clothing construction respectively.
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    Effectiveness of Foundation Course Training Conducted by the Staff Training Unit
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2016-06) Natagall, Roopa U.; Nagnur, Shobha
    The Staff Training Unit (STU), Directorate of Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad is organizing institutional, field oriented training programmes for various personnel of private, government and quasi-government organizations. The Foundation Course Training is one such course where the Agricultural Officers of the Karnataka State Department of Agriculture (KSDA) are trained. The present investigation was undertaken to study the effectiveness of foundation course organized by STU of UAS, Dharwad. The study was conducted in seven districts viz. Dharwad, Gadag, Belagavi, Haveri, Vijayapur, Baglakot and Uttar Kannada under the jurisdiction of UAS, Dharwad. The sample for the study consisted of 150 officials of the KSDA who had attended the foundation course training during 2013-14. Mailed questionnaire method was used to collect the data and data were analysed using correlation, frequencies and percentages. The study revealed that, 92.70 per cent of trainees were fully satisfied with training atmosphere and break timings during the training. Between 86 – 88 per cent were fully satisfied with facilities provided in the classroom, food and accommodation, preparation of lectures and clarity of presentation. About 86 per cent of trainees were partially satisfied with balance of theory-practical ratio followed by duration of training (81.30 %). Majority of the trainees (66.00 %) expressed that training programmes organized on Integrated Pest Management and Integrated Farming Systems were most useful. Seventy per cent of the trainees were in high job performance category, while 30 per cent were in medium performance category. Nearly 93 per cent of trainees had high knowledge about Information and Communication Technology, 90 per cent had high knowledge about extension methods and tools, 78.70 per cent had high knowledge about organic farming and vermiculture, 71.30 per cent had high level of knowledge of soil-water and plant relationship and 61 per cent had high knowledge level about Integrated Pest Management. Majority (86.70 %) of the trainees had put into practice the knowledge gained by them to the extent of 76 -100 per cent.
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    Effect Of Trainings Conducted For Rural Women By District Agricultural Training Centre
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2016-06) Kurbetta, Nagaratna C.; Hiremath, Uma S.
    The study was undertaken in the year 2015-16 in Dharwad district of Karnataka with the sample size of 300 rural women to analyse the effect of trainings conducted for rural women by the District Agricultural Training Centre (DATC). An analysis of the data indicated that majority of the trained rural women had medium level of knowledge about integrated pest management (56.70 %), integrated farming system (73.40 %), dairy management (63.30 %) and seed treatment (73.30 %). Whereas, 43.30 per cent of rural women had high level of knowledge about organic farming. Untrained rural women showed low level of knowledge in integrated pest management (80.00 %), integrated farming system (56.70 %), seed treatment (70.00 %) and organic farming (63.33 %). Only in case of dairy management majority (63.30 %) of the untrained women possessed medium level of knowledge. With regard to adoption, majority of trained women belonged to high level of adoption about dairy management (73.30 %) and seed treatment (43.30 %). With respect to integrated pest management majority (50.00 %) of them had medium level of adoption and low level of adoption was found in integrated farming system (60.00 %) and organic farming (43.30 %). Lack of financial assistance was the main constraint in adoption of technologies as expressed by 89.33 per cent of trained rural women followed by lack of market facility (69.33 %) and high cost of raw materials (56.00 %). Cent per cent of the trained rural women were fully satisfied with the technical competencies, physical facilities provided by the organization and also fully satisfied in respect of communication and communicator. The Garrett Ranking applied to the data regarding effectiveness of training methods and teaching aids used by DATC showed that, the most effective training method expressed by trained women was field visits and it was ranked as top and films/3D films was the most effective teaching aid.
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    CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH RURAL MAGAZINES
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad., 2014-06-01) Nora Shalomey D. Sangma; Dr. D.A. Nithya Shree
    A study on “Content analysis of English rural magazines” was undertaken in the year 2013-2014 in Dharwad and Bangalore districts of Karnataka state which consisted of two parts viz., content analysis of magazines and survey research. In content analysis total 803 articles published in four magazines (LEISA India, Bhoomi, Vatika and Kissan World) were taken. For survey research, 60 subscribers of LEISA India (30) and Bhoomi (30) were selected. The data was collected with the help of questionnaire. Out of 803 articles from four magazines, maximum articles belonged to general information category (13.60%) followed by environmental science and agricultural crops with 12.60 per cent each. The least number of articles were in ‘Clothing and Textile’ (0.86%). The analysis of the readability showed that articles in LEISA India (50%) and Vatika (35%) magazines were in the difficult category. Most of the articles in Kissan World were in standard category (28%) while in Bhoomi (37.50%) articles were in fairly difficult. Majority of the readers (36.60%) belonged to medium reading habits. 75 per cent of the readers read the magazines whenever they feel like reading and most of the readers read specific articles in the magazines for ½ hour to 1 hour. Mass media utilization exhibited significant association with reading habits of readers towards the magazine Most of the readers were most satisfied with the various components of the magazines like subject matter areas, cover page, format, content and language, illustration and management. Education, occupation, social participation, mass media utilization and extension contact had exhibited significant association with satisfaction level of the readers towards the magazines. Majority of the readers preferred multi coloured cover page with14 font size letters, 5 to 7 sentences per paragraphs, two photographs per article, illustrations in the form of photos and content should appear on first inner page.
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    EFFECT OF EXTENSION TEACHING METHODS IN DIFFUSION OF NUTRITIONAL ASPECTS OF MINOR MILLETS FOR RURAL WOMEN
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad., 2014-06-01) D. Grace Priyanka; Dr. Chhaya Badiger
    Millets are also known as poor man’s cereal. People usually go for other cereals such as wheat or rice, though the millets are highly nutritious. With regard to nutritive value, millets score over most of other grains. Individual, Group and mass methods are used with variety of teaching aids to diffuse the information. To stimulate the learners’ interest, the extension worker should use varieties of teaching aids in every contact of teaching situation. Hence, the study was conducted in Narendra, Yettingudda, Byahatti and Kusugal villages of Dharwad and Hubli taluka in Dharwad district with 120 rural women using pre tested schedule. The essential information was collected through interview schedule. To know the impact of different extension teaching methods folders were developed on selected minor millets and distributed. The knowledge gained by farm women was measured through pre and post test. The different teaching methods selected for the study were folder with lecture, method demonstration, radio lessons of Krishi Community Radio Station of University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad. For Byahhatti village folder with lecture was used, for Kusugal village various minor millets receipes were prepared through method demonstration was done, for Yettigudda village Krishi Community radio lessons were broadcasted and for Narendra village all the three treatments were used. Cent per cent knowledge was observed regarding usage of fingermillet, foxtailmillet and littlemillet, colour and sprouting of millets which makes food nutritious. The highest knowledge index of 82.88 was ranked as first in Narendra village where all the methods Lecture + folder, Method demonstration and K.C.R.S were used in combination. Knowledge index of 79.33 secured rank second in Kusugal village where method demonstration was used followed by Yettinaguda village (76.22) which ranked third place where lessons through K.C.R.S were employed and Byahatti village ranked fourth with knowledge index of 75.77 where method used was lecture and folders.