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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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    Drudgery Reducing Technologies and Changes in Life of Farm Women: A Sociological Analysis
    (CCSHAU, 2022-09) Meenu Singh; Vinod kumari
    The present study entitled “Drudgery Reducing Technologies and Changes in Life of Farm Women: A Sociological Analysis.” was carried out with the objectives to identify the drudgery reducing technologies, their knowledge and adoption among farm women and as well as their impact on the life of farm women. The study was carried out Haryana state in two districts Hisar and Mahandragarh with a sample size of 320 respondents. A well framed questionnaire and interview scheduled was followed to conduct the study. The socio-economic profile of respondents indicated that an overwhelming majority was married, in age group of 31-40 years, having small landholdings (2.6-5.0 Acres) and medium level of socio-economic status. About half of the respondents in both the districts were having low level of mass media exposure. A total 10 drudgery reducing farm technologies and 10 drudgery reducing household technologies were identified for investigation. More number of respondents in Hisar district were having high overall knowledge (61.3%) about drudgery reducing farm technologies as compared to Mahendergarh (25.0%). Regarding household technology, more than half of the respondents (52.5%) were having moderate overall knowledge about household technology. Women farmers in Hisar district were having high level of extent of adoption (64.4%) of drudgery reducing farm technologies as compared to those in Mahendergarh (25.0%). Majority of respondents (91.2%) in both the districts revealed that the technologies helped them in reducing time and efforts. About two-third of the respondents from both districts also reported that the technologies reduced muscular fatigue and pain and provided comfortable working postures. Regarding overall impact of the drudgery reducing technologies, 37.8% women reported high impact level of farm technologies followed by moderate (34.7%) and low (27.5%) while in case household technologies, 37.5% women reported high impact followed by moderate (32.5%) and low (30.0%). It was found various socio-economic variables were having significant association with knowledge, adoption and impact of drudgery reducing technologies. Lack of freedom in decision making, technologies in purview of men and financial constraints were the factors that worked as a barrier in adoption of drudgery reducing technology. It was concluded that keeping in view the benefits of drudgery reducing technologies to farm women there is need to enhance their knowledge with training/intervention for more adoption of these technologies in future.
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    Socio-economic and psychological problems of aged men in rural community of Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Meenu Singh; Tyagi, Rashmi
    The present study entitled “Socio-economic and psychological problem of aged men in rural community of Haryana” was planned during 2017 at Department of Sociology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar with the objectives to know the nature and extent of problems of aged men, to delineate the factors associated with the problems and to suggest suitable measures to overcome the problems. The study was carried out Haryana in district Hisar having two blocks Hansi and Hisar. There were two villages per block i.e. Dabra and Deve in Hisar and Ramayan and Dhandheri in Hansi blocks, respectively. The sample size was 30 respondents from each village with a total of 120 respondents. A well framed questionnaire and interview scheduled was followed to conduct the study. About half of the respondents belonged to young old (60-69) age group (65%). Majority of the respondents belongs to the Hindu religion and no were belongs to other religion.Half of the respondents belongs to general caste (74.2%) and 30.8 per cent of the respondents had medium land holdings. 71.7 per cent were living in joint family and around 50.8 per cent of the respondents belonged to medium family size (up to 5-8 members). Majority of the respondents were illiterates (32.5%). Maximum number of the respondents (73.3%) was in farming while 15% were retired and 8.3% were farm labor and majority of the families of the respondents were engaged in cultivation (71.7%). About 44 per cent were in the income category of Rs.1-2 lakh annually and about 72.5 per cent respondent have control on overall income.Majority of the respondents have good relationship with their wife (67.5%), son (71.7%), and son‟s family (70%).Majority of the respondents had daily exposure to television (55%), ranked first among sources of mass media exposure of respondents.About 85 per cent of the respondents were married while 0.83 per cent of the respondents were unmarried. Remaining 14.17 per cent respondents were widow, respectively.majority of the respondent spend their time in household work and playing with grand children( 26.7%) and least were involve in sitting in chaupal (1.7%). Based on the above findings it can be concluded that predictors of psychological, social, domestic, health among aged and found that, occupation, age; caste, income, education and family size, family type control on overall income were the main predictor of psychological and cultural aspect. It can be inferred that these predictor would present deterioration of status and enable the elderly to adjust better in society.