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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Extension Education × Author: Abdul Rashid Mukhtarzai × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Comparative analysis of wheat production technology adopted by Afghan and Indian farmers
    (CCSHAU,HiSAR, 2020-08) Abdul Rashid Mukhtarzai; Chahal, P.K
    A field study entitled “Comparative analysis of wheat production technology adopted by Afghan and Indian farmers” was conducted in Haryana and Punjab state of India, and Herat and Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, purposively since being GRAIN project a comparative study. Hisar (Haryana), Mansa (Punjab) districts from India, Injil (Herat) and Behsood (Nangarhar) districts from Afghanistan were selected purposively because these were among major wheat-growing districts in both the countries. Three villages were selected randomly from each district and thereby a total number of twelve villages were selected for the data collection. Keeping in view the number of wheat growers, a convenient sample size of 15 farmers from each village was selected randomly. So, a total number of 180 wheat growers were selected to constitute a sample of the study. The specific objectives of the present study were (1) To ascertain the farmers’ extent of knowledge, adoption and technological gap in wheat cultivation, (2) To find out the constraints faced by farmers in the adoption of wheat cultivation technology, (3) To establish a relationship between farmers' socio-personal traits and technological gap (4) To suggest an extension strategy based on findings to reduce the technological gap in wheat cultivation in Afghanistan. The data were collected through pretested structured interview schedule. Sixteen important independent variables, namely, age, education, land holding, family type, family size, family occupation, social participation, extension contact, mass media exposure, scientific orientation, farm implement, irrigation facilities, annual family income, source of information, marketing channels, risk orientation and change proneness and dependent variables, namely, knowledge, adoption and constraints perceived by the respondents in wheat production technology were studied. The study shows that in Afghanistan, most of the farmers were from middle aged group and small farmers, majority illiterate and used regularly canal but in critical time tube well as an irrigation source. Further it could be observed that majority of the respondents had low level of social participation, extension contact, mass media exposure, farm implements, training xvi received, source of information, marketing channels and change proneness, although some of them had medium category of socio-economic status, scientific orientation, irrigation facilities, annual family income (more than Rs. 100000/-) and risk orientation. In India, the study shows most of the farmers were from middle aged group and medium farmers, education up to matriculation and used both canal and tube well as an irrigation source and had owned land. Further it could be observed that majority of the respondents had medium level of socio-economic status, social participation, extension contact, mass media exposure, irrigation facilities, training received, source of information, marketing channels, risk orientation and change proneness, while some of them had high category of scientific orientation, farm implements and annual family income (more than Rs. 100000/-). Further, it was observed that majority of the respondents had either low knowledge or adoption level about wheat production technology of wheat in Afghanistan. But in India, majority of the respondents had either medium knowledge or adoption level about wheat production technology. The study revealed that in Afghanistan, among the constraints most serious constraints were Technical, input and production, financial and marketing, respectively, where in india among the constraints the most serious constraints were financial, input and production, technical and marketing, respectively. In case of association between the independent variables and adoption level of the respondents about wheat production technology, out of 16 independent variables in Afghanistan, four showed positive and highly significant, two showed positive and significant, nine showed positive and non- significant and one was negative and non-significant correlated with the adoption level of the respondents about wheat production technology. But in India, out of 16 independents variables, seven showed positive and highly significant, one showed negative and highly significant, two showed positive and significant, five showed positive and non-significant and one was negative and non-significant correlated with adoption level of wheat growers about wheat production technology.