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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 Gender wise participation and adoption of recommended technologies in mustard and pearl millet crops in Haryana(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2023-08) Anju; Kundu, PoonamPresent 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.ThesisItem Open Access Prevalence of stress related to work and family among farm women(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2023-09) Diksha Rani; Verma, VandanaThe present study was conducted in Haryana state to analyse prevalence of stress related to work and family among farm women. To draw representative sample, four districts from two agro climatic zones of Haryana state was drawn. Further, two villages from each selected district were selected randomly. Out of each selected village, 25 unpaid farm women were selected at random thus making a total of 200 respondents. Various socio- personal, economic and communication variables constituted the independent variables. Work and family task load, major stressors related to work and family, role perception and perceived role conflict constituted the dependent variables. Socio- personal, economic and communication profile of the respondents revealed that Maximum number of the respondents were 40-50 years of age, educated up to primary level followed by up to senior secondary level were married and having 0-2 children. Majority of the respondents were unemployed and homemaker/unpaid farm labour in both zones with no income with medium level of social participation. Most of the agricultural activities related to manual operations such as cleaning seeds, cleaning fields, winnowing, threshing, and storage practices were carried out by the majority of the respondents while participation of respondents was very low in activities related to buying and selling such as buying equipment or selling production in both zones. Medium level of task load was found in maximum number of respondents. The study revealed that financial risk, time pressure and uncontrollable natural forces were major stressors among farm women related to farming. Strain in household chores and balancing work and family responsibilities was found as a major stressor for respondents. Regarding role perception majority of the respondents reported only females had social pressure and family obligations. Majority of the respondents perceived medium level of fatigue with farm and household work. Medium level of physical stress, emotional stress, mental stress was perceived by the most of the respondents. Farm task load, total task load, perceived stress, fatigue and self-esteem were found to be significantly different in both zones.ThesisItem Open Access Comparative study on conventional and integrated farming systems for livelihood security of small and marginal farm families.(CCSHAU Hisar, 2022-09) Bano, Naaz; Dahiya, RajeshThe present study was conducted in two states of India namely Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. A total sample of 200 small and marginal farm families i.e. 100 CFS and 100 IFS were selected randomly. Majority of the farm families were headed by the male family members, belonged to 30-50 years of age, general caste and educated up to primary. Most of the respondents were married, having joint and large family size, medium level of social and extension participation. Farm families shifted towards IFS as they found it advantageous. Wheat and mustard were major rabi season crops in both the states, whereas cotton in Haryana and sugarcane and paddy in Uttar Pradesh were major cash crops of Kharif season, most of the respondents were growing summer moong in Haryana and lentil in Uttar Pradesh as leguminous crops. Dairy was prominent in Haryana, whereas in Uttar Pradesh dairy was accompanied by goatry. Crop+Dairy+Horticulture was found highly profitable in Haryana and Crop+Dairy+ Horticulture+Goatry farming had highest net annual income in Uttar Pradesh. Most of CFS farm families had medium level of livelihood security, on the other hand more than half of the IFS farm families had high level of livelihood security. There was significant difference in livelihood security of CFS and IFS farm families. Inability in integrated pest management (IPM) and integrated nutrient management (INM), poor access to animal care and health services, difficulty in procuring machineries for crop production, high cost of insecticide, and lack of infrastructure for farm produce were the constraints perceived by the farm families. The livelihood securities of CFS and IFS farm families had positive& significant correlation with education, monthly family income, land holding, farming experience, livestock possession, possession of agricultural & household assets, social and extension participation, mass media exposure, training exposure and exposure to e- services.ThesisItem Open Access Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Agriculture Production, Practices and Management(hisar, 2022-12) Vikash; Shehrawat, P.SThe study was conducted at KVK of CCSHAU located in different districts of Haryana, ATIC of CCSHAU, Hisar and ADT of CCSHAU, Hisar. Further, 80 respondents were selected randomly from various department of the CCSHAU, Hisar and 70 respondents were selected from 16 KVK‟s of CCSHAU, Hisar and ATIC and ADT of CCSHAU, Hisar, randomly. Thus, a total of 150 respondents were interviewed personally at their respective places for the study. The data was divided into various parts i.e., personal profile of agricultural professionals, awareness, perception, utilization pattern and constrains. Results of the personal profile of the respondents reported that majority of the agricultural professionals were of middle age group, educated up to Ph.D, Overall awareness level of respondents was medium and overall perception level of respondents was medium level. The utilization pattern of artificial intelligence by respondents found to be medium level through utility index. Lack of finance and costing of the equipments found to be most severe constraints.ThesisItem Open Access Study of Farmers’ Knowledge, Perception and Utilization of Mobile Apps in Agricultural Production(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2022-07) Dharmender Singh; Shehrawat, P. SThe 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.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 Knowledge, perception and vulnerability of agro-met advisory services (AAS) in Haryana(CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09-20) Dilip S.; Malik, Joginder SinghThe study was conducted in purposively selected Hisar district from western zone and Karnal district from eastern zone of Haryana on the basis of close proximity of the centers issuing weathers forecasting advisory services to western and eastern zone. From each district two block was selected randomly. Three villages were selected randomly from each selected block. A sample of 15 farmers from each village was selected purposively. In this way a total number of 180 farmers were selected for the present study. In all 180 farmers viz., 90 beneficiary farmers were selected and remaining 90 non- beneficiary farmers were selected. Agro-Met Advisory Services is the application of science and technology to predict the state of atmosphere for the future time and a given location. Human being has attempted to predict the weathers informally for the millennia, and formally since at least the nineteenth century. Agro-Met Advisory Services are made by collecting quantitative data about the current state of atmosphere and using scientific understanding of atmosphere processes to reject the atmosphere will evolve. The study revealed that beneficiary farmers had more knowledge as compared to non-beneficiary farmers, because of the influence of Agro-met Advisory Service. The study indicated that, beneficiary farmers had medium to high Perception towards climate change. This is a good trend and this has to be still improved by conducting more awareness programmes. Majority of the respondents (57.23 %) fell under the category of very low vulnerability, whereas, 27.22 and 13.33 per cent of them were belonged to category of low and medium vulnerability. Only 2.22 per cent of the respondents were coming under the category of high vulnerability. Majority of farmers face technical constraints revealed that lack of awareness to the development and utilization of new technologies was considered the most serious constraints by the farmers. In case of understanding ability constraints revealed that belief about traditional weather forecast is more powerful than the modern weather forecast in farmers view was considered the most serious constraints by the farmers. In case of availability constraints revealed that lack of two-way communication between the sender and the receiver was considered the most serious constraints by the farmers. The results indicate multiple regression analysis between selected independent variables and knowledge level towards AAS was inferred that, all the eighteen independent variables together contributed 67.30 per cent of beneficiary farmers and 49.10 per cent of non-beneficiary farmers variation in the knowledge level of the farmers towards AAS. The results indicate multiple regression analysis between selected independent variables and perception level towards AAS was inferred that, all the eighteen independent variables together contributed 61.20 per cent of beneficiary farmers and 37.50 per cent of non-beneficiary farmers variation in the knowledge level of the farmers towards AAS. Students t-test indicates that there is significant difference in the knowledge and perception level of the beneficiary and non-beneficiary farmers.
