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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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ThesisItem Open Access Problems And Prospects In Adoption Of Buffalo Husbandry Practices In Haryana(Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University;Hisar, 2005) Sharma, Karamjit; Singh, S. P.ThesisItem Open Access Impact study on training programmes of extension education institute nilokheri(CCSHAU, 2005) Shah, Fida Hussain; Hudda, R.S.Training is an overt process, a sequence of experiences, a series of opportunities to learn, in which trainee is exposed in some more or less systematic way to certain materials or events. Broadly training aims to maintain and increase the employees effectiveness in his present job, prepare him for promotion by stimulating his potentials and develop his skill and knowledge for greater organizational effectiveness. Extension Education Institute Nilokheri (Haryana) imparts training to middle level extension personnel of the land based departments and master trainers of SAUs in northern region. The objective of study were: (i) to assess the impact of training programme of EEI Nelokheri, (ii) to find out constraints experienced by trainees and suggestion and (iii) to determine the relationship between personality traits of trainees and the impact of training programme. The study was conducted in 7 districts of Haryana. From each district 10 trainees and 10 non trainees were selected. The total sample size was 140 respondents. - Majority of trainees were of middle age, possessed Masters degree, low level of training, had moderate service experience, job stress job satisfaction, positive attitude towards job had good communication behaviour and belonged to medium level of communication credibility category. There was substantial impact of training programme for the trainees. The considerable impact of training programme was mainly in activities related to use of communication channels in transfer of technology, information technology, evaluation of programme, application of PRA technique, application of extension management skills in job performance and in other activities in descending order. Attitude towards job, message credibility, information input behaviour, information processing behaviour and information output behaviour play significant role for training impact while as age, experience and job stress showed negative but non-significant relationship with impact of training programme. Very serious constraints as perceived by trainees during training programme were disturbance in the class due to frequent running of trains, lack of recording unit facility, no proper facility for photographic unit, lack of faculty member in the area of computer section, short duration of training programme. The suggestion given by the trainees for improvement of training programme were duration of training should be enhanced, duration of workshop on computer, PRA technique, marketing skill and video production should be increased to 15-20 days. Faculty member should be appointed in the computer section, modern methods like laptop, multimedia for presentation should be used, training proramme should be made more practical oriented and should include field visits.ThesisItem Open Access Job performance and job satisfaction of Horticulture development officers in diversified agriculture(CCSHAU, 2005) Bhat, Showkat Hussain; Kharb, R.K.The dissemination of horticulture technologies at operation level rest on the job performance and job satisfaction of Horticulture Development Officers (HDOs) in Haryana. The present study was under taken to answer the following objective: 1. To find out the job performance and job satisfaction of Horticulture Development Officers [HDOs]. 2. To identify training needs of HDOs and fruit growers in diversified agriculture. 3. To asses the constraints perceived by HDOs in diversified agriculture. 4. To find out the association between personality traits of HDOs and their job satisfaction and job performance. In order to realize the objectives all the 19 districts of Haryana state formed the locale of the study. Despite best efforts, data was collected from 60 HDOs, out of 74. The study revealed that majority of the respondents (60.00%) belonged to middle age group, possessed B.Sc. (Hons.) Ag. qualification (63.33%) had medium service experience (63.33%), medium level of trainings attended (46.67%), hailed from rural areas (86.67%), having farming as their parental occupation (63.33%), medium and high source of information utilized (86.66%) and had low aspiration (80.00%). More than 63.00 per cent of the respondents were having medium level of job performance in nearly all the dimensions as well as in over all job performance. Nearly half (48.00%) of the respondents had moderate level of job satisfaction in all the two dimensions as well as in overall job satisfaction. The study pointed out that source of information and trainings attended have contributed positively and significantly towards the job performance. Whereas, parental occupation and rural urban back ground have contributed positively and significantly towards job satisfaction but education and experience have contributed negatively and significantly towards job satisfaction. The study revealed that training needs of HDOs were high in post harvest technology, fruit storage and integrated pest management. Whereas, fruit growers liked to be trained in insect pest control and disease control. Regarding constraints respondents (50.00%) belonged to medium and 33.33 per cent in high constraints category.ThesisItem Open Access Knowledge and attitude of farmers about soil testing practices in Hisar district(CCSHAU, 2005) Mohd. Sultan Changa; S.N. Singh]The problem of gap in the use of balanced fertilizer still remains even after lot of extension programmes initiated and highlighted for the same. The skewed use as indicated is a dangerous trend which may encourage lot of imbalance in flora and fauna of soils. Therefore, fertilizer application based on soil test is the need of the hour. Soil testing is a comprehensive soil fertility evaluation programme through which farmers can help themselves in better management of their agricultural operations and use of fertilizers, for optimum production. The study was conducted in two villages of block Hisar-II in district Hisar. Fifty respondents from each village were selected. The total sample size was 100 respondents, out of which 60 were adopters and 40 were non adopters Half of adopters and 40 per cent of non adopters belonged to middle age. Forty two per cent of non adopters were of old age. Majority of adopters possessed medium level of education, half of non adopters possessed low level of education. Half of adopters fall in medium category of land holding. Sixty five per cent of non adopters fall in small land holding category. 41.67 per cent of adopters and half of non adopters belonged to medium and low category of socio economic status respectively. Sixty five per cent of adopters and half of non-adopters possessed medium and low level of family education respectively. Majority of adopters and non adopters were having medium and low level of extension contact. Half of the adopters and non adopters were having medium and low level of mass media exposure. Half of the adopters and non adopters had medium and low level of knowledge about soil testing practices respectively. Half of adopters and non adopters had medium and low level of attitude towards soil testing practices respectively. Education, socio economic status, family education, extension contact had positive and significant relationship with knowledge of adopters, age had negative and significant relationship with knowledge and attitude of non adopters towards soil testing practices. Education and family education had positive and significant relationship with attitude of adopters. Socio economic status and education had positive and significant relationship with knowledge and attitude of non adopters respectively. Constraints as perceived by respondents were high cost of recommended fertilizers non-availability of material recommended by soil testing staff, non availability of mobile soil testing laboratories, contact of extension personnel with a few influencial/resource persons and soil testing is time consuming process. The suggestions given by respondents were Government should organize training programmes to Convince/aware farmers about soil testing practices before each season (kharif/Rabi), the results of soil testing should be given timely, and after soil testing the recommended material such as fertilizer and amendment like gypsum/ pyrite should be supplied to farmers at subsidized rates.ThesisItem Open Access An Analytical study of training management in line departments of Haryana(CCSHAU, 2005) Sharma, Rakesh Kumar; Ram Pal SinghIndia became member of WTO in 1995 and has become an important player in the process of globalization, there upon the agriculture sector has been drastically affected. The production in agriculture sector has reached to 212 million tonnes per annum, however, the international demand of agriculture commodities have not increased to a desired level. The reason being the poor quality of the production in agriculture sector. The other dimension related to agriculture sector is development of hi-tech production practices for various crops. Keeping these factors in mind, the undersigned has undertaken the present study “An Analytical study of training management in line departments of Haryana” with the following objectives: 1. To assess the training needs of extension personnel of Line departments. 2. To study the course planning and preparation approach for conducting a training programme. 3. To analyze the effectiveness of different training methods used by the trainers of selected training institutions. 4. To find out the problems faced by trainers/training institutions and suggestions for improvement. The study has been conducted in the four selected districts of Haryana viz. Karnal, Kurukshetra, Jind and Hisar alongwith four premier training institutions of line departments of the state viz. EEI, Nilokheri, IATTE, Hisar, HTI, Karnal and HVTI Hisar. The data has been collected from 80 respondents. The important findings of the study are summarized below: The ADOs/AIs of Haryana have perceived low to medium training need in the area of communication as well as socio-psychological/human relations. However, most of the ADOs have perceived low training need in the area of subject matter i.e. Paddy and wheat crops. While studying the planning and preparation of training programme by the trainers of selected training institutions of Haryana, it has been found that all the training institutions except HVTI Hisar do ‘very good’ planning and preparation for organizing their training programmes. All the selected training institutions have ‘Quite adequate’ infrastructure for conducting various training programmes. All the training institutions except HVTI have quite adequate physical facilities. The present investigation has revealed that the trainers usually use lecture, extension talk, group discussion, skill teaching and institutional visits as training methods. While studying the exposure of trainers to various training methods it has been found that most of the trainers have been exposed ‘very much’ in lecture, extension talk, group discussion and institutional visits. Regarding the problems faced by the trainers/training institutions. The study brought to surface across to observation that medium participation and poor motivation of trainees are the major problems. It is therefore, suggested that ADOs/AIs should be deputed on training to the training institutions organizing training on the concerned areas for facilitating better technology transfer to the farmers; the trainers of HVTI Hisar need improvement for pre-course planning for their training programmes and should also improve their physical facilities; the trainers of all selected institutions should also make use of the effective training methods for improving the quality of training programmes and deputation of trainers, for training to acquaint them with latest training methods and techniques for making effective training programmes.ThesisItem Open Access Analytical Study of Dairy Entrepreneurship and its Future Strategy in Jammu District of Jammu and Kashmir(Department of extension Education, R. C. A.: Udaipur, 2005) Manhas, Jasbir Singh; Sharma, V.P.ThesisItem Open Access Analysis of Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Mushroom Growers in Jammu District of Jammu and Kashmir(Department of Extension Education, R. C. A. : Udaipur, 2005) Khajuria, Rakesh; Sharma, F. L.