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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: 2023 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Gender wise participation and adoption of recommended technologies in mustard and pearl millet crops in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2023-08) Anju; Kundu, Poonam
    Present study was conducted in Hisar and Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana state . Two blocks namely Hisar-2 and Badhra selected randomly. Total four villages i.e. two from each block namely Kharia and Dobhi from Hisar -2 block and Nandha and Kadma from Badhra were selected randomly. Total 240 respondents i. e. 60 respondents were selected from each village by covering 30 male and 30 female respondents from each village, thus comprising a sample of 240 respondents were selected randomly.A set of Independent variables and five dependent variables viz. gender wise participation, assessment of knowledge, adoption, adoption gap and attitude of recommended mustard and pearl millet production technology. Socio- economic profile of the respondents revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to age group between 36-51, had small size nuclear families belong to general caste, middle and high school education. Material possession profile of the respondents found that majority of the respondents possessed medium level domestic items, agriculture implements and high level means of transportation. In communication source accessibility & utilization observed that low level localite & cosmopolite sources. Whereas in mass media communication sources had medium level communication source accessibility & utilization respectively. In Crops growing pattern found that majority of the respondents had high level rabi and kharif crops grown. The data regarding credit acquisition indicated that majority of the respondents acquired credit in short term duration had taken credit from nationalized bank faced difficulty in procuring credit.Psychological variable in gender wise decision making participation in agricultural activities indicated that all male members had taken decision pertaining to land preparation, sowing, manure application and marketing in both districts. Cultivation practices adopted by the farmers observed that all respondents always used plain leveler, Blade hand hoe (Kasola), Spade, Sickle, and Gandasi in both dictricts. Majority of the male members participated in land preparation, sowing, manure application and marketing in both districts. Data regarding gender wise participation found that in ploughing, leveling, seed drill, cultivator, chemical and farm yard manure mechanical spray, irrigation and marketing activities were always performed by all male members in both districts. The majority of the respondents had more knowledge and adoption in Hisar district and male respondents had favourable attitude.
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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.