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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: Mittal, Shivangi × End date: 2009 × Start date: 2004 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Capacity building of rural women through beekeeping
    (CCSHAU, 2009) Mittal, Shivangi; Kaushik, Sushma
    The study was undertaken in randomly selected two villages viz: Sultanpur and Umra of Hisar district, Haryana state. A group of 50 women from each village (total 100 respondents) were selected randomly. Socio-economic, personal, Communicational, Psychological, Situational parameter were taken as independent variable and awareness of bee-keeping, feasibility of beekeeping, impact of training (knowledge gain, change in attitude and symbolic adoption) were taken as dependent. The study revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to middle age group, high caste, joint families of medium size, low level of personal and medium family education, having no occupation and income, had low level of material possession, medium social participation, mass media exposure and low extension contact while had medium economic motivation, risk orientation but low change proneness. Majority of the respondents had very less awareness about beekeeping technology benefits of beekeeping, and bee products, except honey and perceived feasibility of beekeeping enterprise as medium. Training on beekeeping was organized in collaboration wih Haryana agro industries cooperation, which resulted in significant increase in awareness about benefits of beekeeping and bee products, knowledge, attitude and symbolic adoption of respondents. A positive and significant correlation was found between change in attitude and age, education and economic motivation, material possession social participation and risk orientation, while there was negative and significant relationship between knowledge gain and age but significant and positive correlation between education, extension contact and mass media exposure. Market, technological and economic constraints were the major factors associated with adoption of beekeeping