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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: Anju × End date: 2020 × Start date: 2019 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Impact assessment of RKVY project: Livelihood and food security of rural women through diversified agriculture activities
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-12) Anju; Dahiya, Rajesh
    Present study was conducted in Hisar and Bhiwani districts of Haryana state under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana project in department of EECM. Four trainings on the selected aspects of value addition in fruits and vegetables, bag making, post harvest management and value addition in cereals and handicrafts were organized under the project. Total 120 respondents from two districts covering four villages were selected randomly (30 from each training). Majority of the respondents belonged to 36-50 years of age, educated upto primary, joint family of medium size and general caste, marginal farmers, had low social media exposure and medium level of motivation. Training effectiveness index was measured in terms of utility and coverage of subject matter which was found highest for post harvest management and value addition in cereals (80.30%) followed by value addition in fruits and vegetables (78.58%), handicrafts (76.61%) and bag making (75.82%) for all selected trainings. Trainees were found highly satisfied with subject matter, physical facilities and quality of trainers. Training resulted in significant gain in knowledge, favourable attitude and high skill as compared to control group. Majority of the respondents adopted the technologies for household purpose. Respondents further disseminated the technology in the community. In experimental group, the respondents had significant gain in knowledge, favourable attitude and high skill acquisition regarding all components. In control group respondents had low level of knowledge and unfavourable attitude towards RKVY trainings. Impact assessment index was observed at moderately high level. Age and communication variables were found positively and significantly correlated with knowledge, social participation and communication variables positive and significant correlation with skill, entrepreneurial attitudinal change of the respondents. Some of the respondents perceived the constraints such as inability to compete with readymade products and lack of financial assistance in adoption of technology as an enterprise in rural areas.
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    Gender Differentials Among Rural Households in Socio-Economic Perspective
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2019-07) Anju; Dahiya, Rajesh
    Present study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state in randomly selected two blocks. Total 180 rural households (i.e. 60 from each small, medium and large land holding category) from four villages selected randomly. A set of Independent variables and six dependent variables viz. sex ratio, education status, health status, economic participation, political/social participation and decision making were selected. Socio-personal and economic profile of the respondents revealed that most of the respondents were in 38-47 years age group belonged to general caste, illiterate having nuclear and small sized family, farming occupation, below 1 lakh annual income of head of household & above 4 lakh annual family income. Overall sex ratio was 760/1000, 842/1000 and 790/1000 across land holding category. Female school dropouts were more as compared to male, truancy and financial constraints were the main reasons for school dropout. Drudgery related problems were found more in females of small and medium land holding category whereas diabetes and heart diseases were reported in large land holding category. Out of 13 agricultural activities field preparation, irrigation, plant protection and marketing were done by majority of the male members whereas harvesting, threshing, picking and storage were done by female respondents and both irrespective of land holding category for economic contribution. Most of the animal husbandry activities like feeding, bedding, post parturition care, animal health, milking and milk products were done by majority of the females except breeding and marketing. Most of the decisions regarding education and career of children were taken by both male and female. Whereas decisions regarding most of the agricultural activities and animal husbandry activities were taken by males. Age, occupation of head of household, income of head of household, family occupation, size of family, total family income & social participation were positively correlated with health and education. Income of head of household and total family income were negatively and significantly associated with economic, social and political participation. Significant differences in economic participation of male and female were observed in different issues of agriculture and animal husbandry activities.