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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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ThesisItem Open Access Adoption of Selected Home Science Technologies in Northern Karnataka(University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2016-06) Patil, Shivaleela P.; Sankangoudar, SurekhaThe 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.ThesisItem Open Access Training Need Identification and Job Satisfaction of Subject Matter Specialists (SMSS) of Krishi Vigyan Kendras in Karnataka(University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2016-06) Ramannanavar, Akshata; Nagnur, ShobhaKrishi Vigyan Kendras are district level knowledge and resource centers, engaged in frontline extension through development and dissemination of location specific technologies in agriculture and allied sector with the help of multi-disciplinary team i.e., Subject Matter Specialists. The present study on “Training need identification and job satisfaction of subject matter specialists (SMSs) of Krishi Vigyan Kendras in Karnataka” has been conducted. The questionnaire was mailed to all the KVK, SMSs out of these a total of 120 SMSs were responded. The collected data was subjected to appropriate statistical analysis. The SMSs were mainly between the ages of 38-50 with the qualification of master degree. Majority (74.16 %) of the respondents had less than 11 years of job experience. The SMSs were having medium to high (98.34 %) level of job performance. The overall job satisfaction index was found to be 74.57. Most of the SMSs (95.00 %) fully agreed that mandates of KVK were most applicable to their job. The general training areas of SMSs were human resource development, extension methodologies and approaches, information and communication technologies, crop production technologies, climate change and agricultural policies and finance. The specific areas of trainings demanded by SMSs are: Horticulture; horticultural crop production and post-harvest technology, Home Science; post-harvest technologies, income generating activities, Entomology; integrated pest management, economic entomology, Plant Protection; plant protection measures, production and use of bio agents, Agronomy; crop production techniques, soil conservation methods, Soil Science; soil nutrient management, soil analysis, Agricultural Extension; scientific writing and communication skills, information and communication technologies and Animal Science and Fisheries Science; sustainable dairy farming, entrepreneurship and marketing aspects. The SMSs faced many constraints namely difficulty in disseminating technologies, too much report writing, lack of interest among farmers, untimely supply of budget and lack of freedom of expression.ThesisItem Open Access Effectiveness of Foundation Course Training Conducted by the Staff Training Unit(University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2016-06) Natagall, Roopa U.; Nagnur, ShobhaThe 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.ThesisItem Open Access 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.ThesisItem Open Access ROLE OF RURAL WOMEN IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY(University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2004) SHETTAR, SAVITHA S; BADIGER, CHHAYAABSTRACT NOT AVAILABLEThesisItem Open Access 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."ThesisItem Open Access 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."ThesisItem Open Access 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."ThesisItem Open Access PARTICIPATION OF RURAL WOMEN IN WOOL PRODUCTION(University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2002) Nukapur, Bhagyashri Y; Badiger, ChhayaABSTRACT NOT AVAILABLE
