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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 Extension Education × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2012 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Risk Perception and Capacity Building of Women in Diversified Agriculture for Entrepreneurship
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Ritu; Yadav, Lali
    The study on, “Risk perception and capacity building of women in diversified agriculture for entrepreneurship” was conducted covering 200 randomly drawn respondents from four villages of purposively selected Hisar district of Haryana. Most respondents played active participation, showed information seeking behavior and consulting role in decision making for diversified agricultural activities. Most respondents perceived training needs for dairy at commercial level, taking measures for clean milk production, vermicomposting, food processing and purchase and sale of milch animals. Majority respondents perceived risk in terms of uncertain whether condition, inadequate knowledge and skill of innovative appropriate irrigation technology, rising price of agricultural inputs, problem of middleman and high and varying interest rate. Most respondents were willingly to undertake diversified entrepreneurial agricultural activities, were highly willing to change the existing pattern of farming diversification. Huge majority respondents were willing to pay to undertake specified training with rider to undertake diversified agricultural activities as an entrepreneurial. The perceived entrepreneurial attributes to undertake diversified agricultural activities were creativity, innovativeness, achievement motivation and rationality for dairy, ability to motivate others, self-confidence, skill competence and foresightedness for floriculture, creativity, environmental scanning, change proneness and goal setting skills for vermicomposting, communicability, environmental scanning, skill competence and goal setting skill for food processing, creativity, self-confidence, change proneness and rationality in thinking for medicinal and aromatic plants. Majority scored high on perceived attributes for all the technologies (serrated sickle, coat bag and capron) except sag cutter. Significant knowledge gain on all activities was observed. Significant association was observed for independent and dependent variables.
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    Impact assessment of Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee act in rural Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Dhaka, Sunita; Dahiya, Manju
    The Present study was conducted in Hisar, Sirsa and Bhiwani districts of Haryana state, purposively. Six villages were selected randomly from the Hisar, Sirsa and Bhiwani districts from each selected village, 50 respondents 25 male and 25 female and 5 village representatives were selected randomly, thus making total sample of 330. Socio–personal profile of the respondents revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to lower middle age group, were illiterate, belonged to low caste, married, with medium family size from joint family, low family income, landless, agricultural labours and had low material possession. Communication profile revealed that, majority of the respondents had low mass media exposure, low extension contacts and less social participation. Village wise profile of the respondents in Bamla-II and Kaluana where respondents had medium family income between Rs. 5000-10000/-. In Mirzapur majority of the respondents had high material possession and in village Kaluana where majority of the respondents had medium material possession. Regarding communication profile in Sundawas and Bamla-II respondents had medium social participation and majority of the respondents had high mass media exposure in Kaluana village and medium mass media exposure in Mirzapur village. Both male and female respondents were less aware regarding the provision of “Creche facilities”, “Validity of job card for five years”, getting information about MGNREGA scheme from “Newspaper”, “Radio” and “TV” and provision of “Amount of unemployment allowances”. Regarding village wise awareness of MGNREGA scheme, majority of the respondents had high awareness in Mirzapur, Kaluana and Bamla-II whereas in Sundawas, Nirban and Kaluwas villages respondents had low awareness. Average income earned by majority of the males was Rs. 2579.82/- on “Land development” and female respondents Rs. 2527.17/- on “Rural connectivity to provide all weather access” respectively. As far as opinion about MGNREGA scheme, majority of the male and female respondents agreed on “Wages are less as compared to market rate” and an equal number of male and female respondents disagreed on “it is possible to create/ recreate those assets even without MGNREGA”. Gender wise extent of perceived impact of MGNREGA scheme, majority of the male respondents perceived high extent on “Increase in market wages”, “Reduction in mental tensions for earning money for the family”, “Increase in self confidence” and “Reduction in the migration of workers from the village for employment” whereas female respondents perceived high extent on “Increase in market wages”, “Reduction in the migration of workers from the village for employment”, “Reduction in domestic violence”, “Duration of unpaid family work declined” and both of the respondents perceived low extent on “Control over resources” and “Loan repayment.” Overall perceived impact of respondents regarding MGNREGA scheme, majority of the respondents reported increased impact on “Basic necessities of life” followed by “Migration back to villages”, “Repayment of loan” and “Food security.” Data on gender wise effect of implementation of MGNREGA revealed , majority of the male and female respondents earned more wages, reduced days of migration, started purchasing assets, getting more number of days of employment, higher number of children started going to school, increased savings and had started attending social ceremonies after joining MGNREGA scheme. Education, caste, family type, family income, land holding, material possession of male respondents were significantly associated with impact of MGNREGA. In female respondents education, caste, marital status, family type, family income, land holding, family occupation, and material possession were significantly associated with impact of MGNREGA scheme. Regarding relationship between education, family income, family occupation, material possession and communication variables of male respondents were significantly associated with awareness of MGNREGA scheme whereas in female respondents education, family income and material possession of were significantly associated with awareness of MGNREGA scheme. The findings of the study reported that relationship between education, family income and material possession of male respondents and family income, family occupation and material possession of female respondents were significantly associated with constraints in utilization of MGNREGA. Mean value of awareness, impact, and opinion was higher for village Mirzapur and Kaluana which was significantly higher than all other villages. Lowest score was obtained for Nirban village. Village representatives perceived “Most of the GP secretaries are not adequately qualified/ trained to understand the procedures and process to execute the MGNREGA works efficiently” as the major constraint.