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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: Human Development and Family Studies × Author: Punia, Anusha × End date: 2009 × Start date: 2009 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Adoption feasibility of lemon based preserved products in rural Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2009) Punia, Anusha; Goel, Rita
    The study was conducted in Haryana state of Hisar district by selecting two blocks randomly namely Hisar-I and Hansi-I and by selecting two villages from each of the selected block at random. Thus, Ladwa and Mirka villages from Hisar-I, Dhanderi and Sultanpur from Hansi-I block were selected. A sample of 200 rural women were selected at random to assess pre-exposure knowledge, attitude, awareness and utilization of lemon products among rural women and for intervention programme 100 rural women were taken. The data were collected by the researcher with the help of duly pre-tested interview schedule. Intervention programme was designed for selected four lemon based preserved products for 100 rural women. All of the respondent covered under intervention programme obtained only 19.5 per cent in ingredients and 21.6 per cent scores in steps in sweet lemon pickle at pre-exposure stage. But at post-exposure stage, respondents obtained maximum scores 86.2 per cent in ingredients used in lemon squash and 93.0 per cent in steps taken in lemon pickle in oil and lemon rind pickle. Maximum knowledge gain in ingredients was observed in lemon squash (84.2%). About steps, maximum knowledge gain was observed in lemon squash (88.3%). At pre-exposure stage, majority of respondents (55.0%) had neutral attitude while at post-exposure stage, 63.0 per cent of respondents acquired favourable attitude towards lemon products. Adoption feasibility of lemon products was found to be the highest in triability (88.0%) followed by simplicity/complexity (87.4%), physical compatibility (81.2%), cultural compatibility (80.0%) and relative advantage (79.8%). The most frequently perceived constraint for adoption of lemon products were marketing problem (81.0%) followed by lack of credit facility (53.0%), lack of confidence (50.0%), non-recognition by family (43.0%), lack of personal interest (31.0%), non-recognition by society (14.0%) and non-availability of the lemons (1.0%).