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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: Dharmender Singh × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Study of Farmers’ Knowledge, Perception and Utilization of Mobile Apps in Agricultural Production
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2022-07) Dharmender Singh; Shehrawat, P. S
    The study was conducted in four districts namely, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Rewari and Jhajjar and from each district, two blocks were selected randomly. Thus, total numbers of eight blocks were selected for the study. From each block, two villages were selected randomly. Thus, total numbers of 16 villages were selected for the study. From each village, 15 respondents were selected randomly. Thus, total 240 respondents were selected and personally interviewed through well-structured schedule on their farm or home. The data were divided into various parts i.e. personal profile of farmers, knowledge, perception, utilization pattern, impact and constrains. Results of the personal profile of the respondents reported that majority of the farmers were of young age group, educated up to pre-university/diploma, belonged to OBC category and had land holding up to 5 acres. Majority of the respondents used the WhatsApp app followed by E-mausamhau and IFFCO Kisan mobile app. Overall knowledge level of respondents was high and overall perception level of respondents was of medium level. Impact of mobile apps on agricultural production was medium meant that mobile apps had huge potential in agricultural sector. The utilization pattern of mobile apps by respondents was found of medium level through utility index. Lack of training on specific aspect was found the very serious constraints in infrastructure constraints followed by insufficient availability of ICT services in rural area, recommended practices are very expensive and lack of satisfactory solution of individual problem were serious constraints in the technical, economic and miscellaneous categories.