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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 Sustainable integrated farming system in Haryana: Problems and prospect(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-03) Ekta; Malik, Joginder SinghThe study was conducted in Yamunanagar and Sirsa districts of Haryana state during the year 2018-19. These districts were purposively selected. Further, four villages from each district were selected, randomly. Further, 22 farmers were selected, randomly from each selected village. Thus, a total number of 176 respondents were interviewed for the present study. The information about respondents‟ socio-personnel traits, need and interest of farmers in adoption of IFS, feasible components of IFS in Haryana, farmer‟s perception regarding the impact of IFS in sustainable agriculture, problems and prospect of small and marginal farmers in different farming systems in Haryana were collected with the help of structured interview schedule. The study indicated that there were 63.07 per cent of respondents who had medium need and interest towards IFS. 31.82 per cent respondent‟s perceived high need and interest towards IFS. Whereas, only 5.11 per cent of the respondents perceived less need and interest towards IFS. In case of IFS components adopted by the respondents, all of the respondents had adopted field crop followed by dairy farming, forestry, horticulture and vegetables etc. Results pertaining to the perception of farmers regarding the impact of IFS in sustainable agriculture found that majority of respondent 51.70 per cent had medium level of perception towards IFS. The study conducted on constraints encountered by the respondents in adoption of IFS revealed that there were 47.73 % of respondents who believed to have medium problems regarding IFS such as Economical, technical, production, marketing and organizational problems. The overall results of IFS prospect perceived by the respondents showed that about 55.11 per cent of the respondents perceived medium to high level of IFS, hence the future of IFS is bright under these circumstances. The study further revealed that most of the respondents believed to have medium level of technical prospect (64.77%), economical prospect (66.48%), social prospect (52.27%) and ecological prospect (53.98%) regarding IFS. They also believed to have low level of entrepreneurial prospect (57.95%). IFS play an important role in reducing of the use of chemical fertilizers by improving the soil health naturally by increasing the soil nutrients, organic carbon and micro-organism in the soil.ThesisItem Open Access Empowerment of farm women through Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Project in Hisar division of Haryana(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2019-05) Anshu; Seema RaniThe study was conducted in two districts of Haryana State i.e. Hisar and Fatehabad. 120 farm women from each district of Hisar Division were selected randomly. Thus a total of 240 beneficiaries were selected for the study. To determine the participation information of SREP, implementation of SREP and constraints in SREP implementation,18 stakeholders of ATMA were selected randomly. Results of the study revealed that majority of the beneficiary belonged to younger age group, belonged to schedule caste, married, illiterate, with low family education status, were housewives, majority of beneficiaries family were working as labourers. In Hisar district as well as Fatehabad district beneficiaries had more awareness and participation concerning kisan ghothi followed by FIG training camp, demonstration, exposure visit and farmer field school. Decisions related to farm, animals and money matters were predominantly taken with the help of husband or with the help of family in both districts of Hisar division. Negligible numbers of beneficiaries took their own decisions. Knowledge regarding ATMA project in both district was found to be medium and findings also indicated that the beneficiaries had somewhat favourable attitude towards various aspects of ATMA both districts. ATMA had positively outcome in relation to social development, economic development, cultural development, technological development and input assistance and management constraint was the major constraint followed by organizational/institutional constraints. Knowledge about the ATMA project was found to be positively correlated with the exposure visit, training camp and demonstration at 5% level of significance. Data reveals that farmer field school, training camp and demonstration were found to be positively significant with development. Most of the stakeholders agreed that that technology in ATMA project had changed the socio-economic profile of the farmers in which major change was observed in the use of media, increased in social participation. Major constraints faced by the stakeholders were lack of awareness, location of farmers, lack of interest among farmers, insufficient budget for organization of ATMA programme. Majority of stakeholders pointed out that farmer feedback should be taken for improvement of programme, sufficient budget for the ATMA programme should be provided, refresher training should be provided to the ATMA stakeholders’ assessment of farmer needs and developing need based programme.ThesisItem Open Access Knowledge and Usage Pattern of Information and Communication Technology among Students of CCS Haryana Agricultural University(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2019-06) Malik, Anil Kumar; Godara, A.KThe present study entitled “Knowledge and Usage Pattern of Information and Communication Technology among Students of CCS Haryana Agricultural University” was conducted in the Colleges of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering & Technology and Indira Chakravarty College of Home Sciences of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana with following objectives: to examine the accessibility of ICT services among students for agricultural purposes, to ascertain the knowledge level and usage pattern of ICT tools, to explore the aptitude of students towards ICT and to identify the constraints faced in using ICT. In this research, Under-Graduate (Pre-final & Final year) and Post-Graduate (M.Sc. & Ph.D.) students of the selected colleges registered during the session of 2017-18 were taken as the sample of the study. There were 994 students registered in U.G and P.G. programmes from selected colleges. Out of them, 200 students were selected through proportionate random sampling. The ICT tools selected for the study were web services/internet, television, radio and mobile. The data were collected through personal interview technique with the help of well-structured and pre-tested interview schedule and analyzed with appropriate statistical tools. The results shows that majority of the students belonged to age group of 21-25 years, the number of male respondent was very high, almost one-third were graduate, more than 80 per cent of the respondents resided in hostel, whereas a great majority of the respondents preferred for university job. The study further revealed that all the respondents had access to four tools of ICT viz., web services/internet, television, radio and mobile selected for study. Whereas majority of the respondents used ICT tools/services for entertainment purpose. Moreover, more than 90 per cent of the respondents owned mobile phone with internet facility. The findings also revealed that nearly half of the respondents‟ overall knowledge towards ICT tools/services was found to be of „medium‟ level. Regarding use of selected ICT tools, all the respondents used internet and mobile followed by television and radio. The study further illustrated that most of the respondents had „high‟ level of extent of utilization of internet and mobile, whereas in case of television and radio, majority of the respondents was found to have „medium‟ and „low‟ level of extent of utilization, respectively. Moreover, a great majority of the respondents was found to have „favourable‟ to „more favourable‟ aptitude towards ICT. Correlation coefficient of age, education, medium of schooling, family education, scientism, mass media exposure, information seeking behaviour and risk orientation were found positively significant with the knowledge and usage pattern of ICT tools. Whereas in case of the partial regression coefficient variables i.e. age, education, medium of schooling, scientism, mass media exposure, information seeking behaviour and risk orientation significantly contributed to the knowledge and usage pattern of ICT tools. The study further revealed that lack of training facilities to learn ICT, lack of expertise to use ICT and slow functioning of internet/server breakdown were the major constraints faced by the respondents in using ICT. As far as consequences of not using ICT were concerned, „Loss of contact with timely information‟ ranked as first consequence followed by „Loss of relevance, confidence and credibility‟. With regard to suggestions, majority of the respondents suggested that teaching should be through ICT followed by improved internet connection.ThesisItem Open Access Assessment of Integrated Farming System in Haryana(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-08-20) Khushbu; Sabharwal, KantaThe study entitled “Assessment of Integrated Farming System in Haryana”. Study was conducted in two Western and Eastern agro-climatic zone of Haryana state, covering two districts of each zone and three villages from each district with random sample techniques with 120 respondents. It was found that prominent farming system adopted by all the respondents were (crop + dairy). Apart from Crop + Dairy the key farming system practicing by marginal land holding respondents (6.6% and20.0%), small land holding (11.6% and 8.3%) and semi-medium land holding respondents (50.0% and 41.6%) were practicing (crop+ vegetables + fruits + dairy). Regarding purpose of adoption of IFS components, majority of respondents reported that they had adopted all major IFS components for household as well as commercial purposes.In Western zone Maximum profit earned by respondents by practising Crops+Vegetables+Fruits+Dairy+Vermi-composting and generating a net income of Rs. 482778.7/- with an average land holding 5.72 acre, in. In Eastern zone respondents generating a net income of Rs. 477865.8/- on the same components with an average land holding 8.04 acres, system. Majority of respondents showed positive impact and reported that increase in household consumption, savings and family income after practising Integrated Farming System and Majority of respondents were highly satisfied with food and nutritional, health, agricultural and economic security. Some of the respondents reported personal, social, technical, financial and production constraints in integrated farming system.ThesisItem Open Access Impact assessment of RKVY project: Livelihood and food security of rural women through diversified agriculture activities(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-12) Anju; Dahiya, RajeshPresent 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.ThesisItem Open Access Empowerment of Farm Women through Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Project in Gurugram division of Haryana(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2019-05) Reena; Seema RaniThe study was conducted in two districts of Gurugram division of Haryana State i.e. Gurugram and Mahendragarh. A total of 240 beneficiaries of ATMA and 18 stakeholders of ATMA were selected for the study. The data were collected personally with the help of structured interview schedule for the beneficiaries and data from stakeholders were collected through questionnaire. Results of the study revealed that majority of the beneficiaries were in the age group of 37-55 years, belonged to schedule caste, married, illiterate, belonged to nuclear family, had family size up to 5 members and housewives in both districts of Gurugram division. Maximum participation of beneficiaries was found in kisan goshti, kisan mela and training camp. There were low participation in scientific interaction and farmer field school and no participation in demonstration and farmer interest group. Medium level of participation in the various type of training programme under ATMA was found in both districts of Gurugram division. Majority of the respondent were categorized under medium level of social development (67.50%), economic development (82.08%), cultural development (71.67%), input assistance (72.50%) and low level of technological development (78.33%). Major constraints faced by the beneficiaries was lack of practical knowledge (2.70) in management constraints, easily availed quality input (2.01) in technological constraints, lack of credit facilities (2.06) in economic constraints and lack of exposure visit to women farmers (2.69) in organization /institutional constraints. Major constraint faced by the stakeholders were lack of interest of farmers, lack of finance for organization of ATMA programme, poor coordination between officers and farmers, plans were made on district DDA level / no planning in fixing targets according to the specific farming situation needs of beneficiaries or improper implementation of bottom up approach, difficulty in formation and run of FIG/WIG as well as in lack of efficient transportation, farmers goes off track during discussion exclude main discussion followed by neglected the voice of extension personnel, many schemes resulting no time for review. Major suggestion reported by stakeholders were strengthening of infrastructure & improving coordination between allied stakeholder, place the budget of ATMA in advance at BAO level, promotion PPP mode as well as refresher training, strengthen F- R- E linkage, provide sufficient fund to run the plan smoothly, awards should be given to the farmers who are progressive, promotion of farmers producers organization setup, Block action plan should be as per need of farmer. Few numbers of stakeholders also suggested that there should be proper implementation of bottom up approach and D- plot should be given in adequate quantity.ThesisItem Open Access Adoption and diffusion of homestead technologies among rural women(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-08) Jyoti Rani; Yadav, BeenaThe present study on “adoption and diffusion of home stead technology among rural women” was conducted on 200 women from four villages i.e. Sundawas, Bichpari, Shikarpur, Shahpur villages from Hisar district of Haryana state adopted during last four years under IAHS programme of College of Home Science. The independent variables included personal, economical, social, communicational, psychological and technological. The dependent variables of the respondents were adoption status, factors contributing of adoption and non-adoption and consequences of adopted technologies. Data were collected personally with the help of inventory, schedule and questionnaire and were analyzed by application of frequency, percentages, and other descriptive techniques. Maximum of the IAHS respondents belonged to 29+-40 years age group from general caste , married ,educated up to 12th having nuclear families structure from of medium family size. Farming as well as labor was reported as main occupation of the family members, had marginal land holding and they were observed to fall under above poverty line. Maximum number of the respondents reported demonstration+ lecture for acquiring various type of information. Adoption of technologies majority of the respondents were reported continued adoption of the garment construction and pickles, nutritious recipes, macramé products and soft toys making. Technologies like garment construction, macramé products and soft toys making were used for the income generation most of the respondents. Diffusion of the technologies indicated that on an average each IAHS beneficiary disseminated the technologies among more than one woman. Education, caste, land holding, family type economic status, achievement motivation, technology perception score was found to be positively and significantly correlated with stages of adoption of different homestead technologies at 5% level of significance. Whereas age, occupation, marital status caste, land holding, social and political participation were found to be negatively but significantly correlated with stage of adoption for different homestead technologies. Major reasons for non adoption of technologies were unavailability of raw material, not acquisition of the prefect skills, lack of interest and not need based , lack of resources i.e. (time, money, space etc), costlier to adopt and lack of family support, taste not liked by the family members. Consequence of the adopted technologies were assessed in term of direct- desirable, direct undesirable, indirect desirable and indirect undesirable. Maximum number of consequences was reported by the respondents in improved mud stove technology followed by pearl millets, garment construction, and wealth out of waste.ThesisItem Open Access Gender Differentials Among Rural Households in Socio-Economic Perspective(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2019-07) Anju; Dahiya, RajeshPresent 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.ThesisItem Open Access Livelihood status and social mobility among scheduled caste families in Hisar district(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-10) Ekta; Kaushik, SushmaThe present study was conducted purposively in Hisar district of Haryana state. Five villages having predominately large number (40%) of Scheduled Caste population as per census 2011 were randomly chosen. Forty SC families from each village were randomly selected to constitute a total sample size of 200 respondents Data regarding dependent and independent variables were collected with the help of pre tested interview schedule. The inferences were drawn on the basis of frequency; percentage weighted mean score and Pearson‘s coefficient of correlation. Results revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to 35 – 50 year of age, belonged to Chamar caste, were male headed family, were married, having nuclear families with medium family size. Majority of respondents were labor, having monthly family income between Rs.10,001-25,000, were above poverty line and perceived them to be at lower income level. Majority of families used electricity as a source of lighting, cow dung/wood as source of cooking fuel and piped water at home as source of water for drinking. Majority had flush toilets. Selected families had high mean human assets, medium level of house characteristics, family assets and communication assets. However possession of land and livestock, transportation assets and financial assets scored low. Social mobility data indicated that the literacy rate increased significantly over three generation. Work engagement of both genders increased from first to second generation. Significant improvements in their status were perceived by SC respondents over last few years Regarding overall livelihood status, it was negatively and significantly associated with age, while positively and significantly associated with family income, education status and information source utilization. Family size, occupation of head of family, family income, family education status and information source utilization were positively and significantly associated with social mobility. Livelihood status was found to be significantly and negatively correlated with social mobility.
