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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: Home Science × Author: Deepti × End date: 2008 × Start date: 2003 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Impact assessment of all India coordinated research project (AICRP) in home science on farm women
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Deepti; Seema Rani
    The present investigation was carried out in five villages of Hisar district of Haryana state to assess impact of All India Coordinated Research (AICRP) in Home Science on farm women. The villages adopted under AICRP in Home Science were selected purposively. Thus Gunjar and Bhojraj from Hisar-I and Bherian, Ludas and Shahpur from Hisar-II block were selected for the persent investigation. From selected villages, a random sample of 25 farm women was drawn from each village, thus a total number of 125 farm women from all the five villages formed the sample of the study and 25 non participants were selected from non adopted village. Personal, economic, communication and psychological variables constituted the independent variables. The knowledge, attitude, skill, adoption and entrepreneurial behaviour of the respondents constituted the dependent variables for the study. The data were collected with the help of pre-tested structured interview schedule. The study revealed that irrespective of the experimental and controlled group, most of the respondents were young, married, had farming as main occupation, educated upto middle and high school, belonged to backward caste, nuclear family system having medium to small family size, indicating low social participation. Economic profile showed small herd size, thatched/katcha dwelling for livestock, mixed houses, family income in most of families varies from Rs. 5000-10,000 had 1.0 to 2.5 acres of land. Majority of the respondents had low level of farm assets, medium level of household assets and media ownership. The high to medium level of economic motivation, change proneness and risk orientation was reported in case of experimental group while in controlled group medium level of mass media exposure, economic motivation, change proneness and risk orientation were reported. The knowledge mean scores on various aspects of health and nutrition, clothing and textile, drudgery reduction, income generation, mother and child care practices indicated better scores in the experimental group than the controlled group. The significant ‘t’ values also indicating significant differences in knowledge of two groups. The similar trend was observed in change in attitude. Statistically, significant ‘t’ values of the skill acquisition mean scores indicated significant difference of the experimental and controlled groups in skill acquired for health and nutrition, clothing and textile, drudgery reduction, income generation, mother and child care practices. Most of the respondents were in medium level of adoption followed by low and high level of adoption for various components of health and nutrition, clothing and textile, drudgery reduction, income generation, mother and child care practices. The heavy work load of household, health problems, lack of motivation from family and society, high cost, repayment of loans and electricity problems were the major constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of improved practices. Regarding entrepreneurial behaviour of majority of the respondents on different aspects of communication, goal setting and background history was found in medium level of category followed by low and high. Most of the socio-personal, economic psychological and communication variables were found significantly associated with the knowledge, attitude and skill of the respondents for all the aspects of health and nutrition, drudgery reduction, clothing and textile and income generation except mother and child care.