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University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru

University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, a premier institution of agricultural education and research in the country, began as a small agricultural research farm in 1899 on 30 acres of land donated by Her Excellency Maharani Kempa Nanjammanni Vani Vilasa Sannidhiyavaru, the Regent of Mysore and appointed Dr. Lehmann, German Scientist to initiate research on soil crop response with a Laboratory in the Directorate of Agriculture. Later under the initiative of the Dewan of Mysore Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah, the Mysore Agriculture Residential School was established in 1913 at Hebbal which offered Licentiate in Agriculture and later offered a diploma programme in agriculture during 1920. The School was upgraded to Agriculture Collegein 1946 which offered four year degree programs in Agriculture. The Government of Mysore headed by Sri. S. Nijalingappa, the then Chief Minister, established the University of Agricultural Sciences on the pattern of Land Grant College system of USA and the University of Agricultural Sciences Act No. 22 was passed in Legislative Assembly in 1963. Dr. Zakir Hussain, the Vice President of India inaugurated the University on 21st August 1964.

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    A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LIVELIHOOD STATUS IN IRRIGATED AND RAINFED FARMING SITUATIONS IN CENTRAL DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2015-12-01) YASHODHARA, B; Narasimha, N
    The present study was carried out in two districts of central dry zone in Karnataka state during 2014-15 to compare the livelihood status of irrigated and rainfed farmers. Data was collected from a sample of 90 farmers from irrigated area (Davanagere and Harihara taluks form Davanagere district) and other 90 farmers from rainfed area (Challakere and Molkalmuru taluks from Chitradurga disrtict) using pre-tested interview schedule through personal interview method. Standardized scales to measure livelihood status was developed and used in the study. The study indicated that 44.4 per cent of farmers had high level of livelihood status, followed by medium (37.8 %) and low level of livelihood status (17.8 %) in irrigated situation. In rainfed situation, 43.3 per cent of farmers had low level of livelihood status followed by 38.9 per cent had medium and 17.8 per cent had high level of livelihood status. The findings revealed that 40.0 per cent of the farmers took crop production, 20.0 per cent crop production with diary in irrigated situation and in rainfed situation 33.3 per cent of respondents practiced crop production with dairy & sheep rearing, 18.9 per cent crop production with sheep, 15.6 per cent crop production alone. High cost of inputs, lack of remunerative prices and high labour cost are major constraints faced by irrigated farmers and uncertainty of rainfall, lack of remunerative prices and inadequate irrigation facility are major constraints faced by rainfed farmers. Reducing the input cost and increase the support price are the major suggestions suggested by irrigated farmers. Ground water recharge programmes and linkage of different water bodies are the major suggestions suggested by rainfed farmers.
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    Economic Contribution of Agricultural Extension Services provided by Karnataka Watershed Development Project to Beneficiaries of Bijapur district
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2015-11-11) GANGAPPAGOUDA, S. BIRADAR; Gangadharappa, N. R
    The present study is conducted to measure the ‘Economic contribution of Agricultural Extension Services provided by Karnataka Watershed Development Project’ to the beneficiaries of Bijapur district’ during the year 2014-15. Ex-post facto research design, specifically before and after method was adopted to know the changes in the important indicators such as annual income, crop yields, employment generation and materials status among beneficiaries due to KAWAD project and also developed a scale on Economic contribution of AESs to capture the contribution of each services to the economic status of the beneficiaries. Hence, 90 beneficiary farmers and 90 nonbeneficiary farmers were selected, thus 180 respondents constitute the sample for the research study. Then, structured interview schedule was used to collect data. Important findings of the study reveals that majority (42.22 %) of the beneficiary farmers were belonged to ‘medium’ and ‘high’ (37.78 %) category with respect to overall access to the services of KAWAD project. Over a half (55.56 %) of the beneficiary farmers had ‘better’ accessed to the credit services followed by training services (54.45 %) and advisory services (51.11 %), about 67.78 and 46.67 per cent of them had ‘best’ accessed to input services and land based & crop management services respectively. About 40.00 per cent of them poorly accessed to the market services. Overall contribution of AESs towards economic status of beneficiary farmers was found to be 24.37 per cent, among major contribution from credit services (5.06%), land based and crop management services (4.45%) and least contribution was from advisory services (3.09 %). Cent per cent of them adopted the services like land leveling, land shaping & bunding followed by construction of check dams & nala bunds (86.66 %), new tanks and farm ponds (83.33 %), contour bunding (76.66 %) etc,. Study also reveals that the positive impact of KAWAD project on crop yield, annual income, employment generation, cropping intensity and on material status. Increase in annual income by more than fourfold, employment generation from 95 to 182 man-day’s per annum, cropping intensity (98.66 to 186.99 %). Whereas, among the suggestion the major was to supportive prices for standing crops (88.88 %) followed by training on IGAs (81.11 %). The KAWAD project has significantly contributed towards socio-political, economical and overall development of KAWAD beneficiaries.
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    AN ANALYSIS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR OF MAIZE SEED PRODUCING FARMERS OF HAVERI DISTRICT
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2015-09-11) BANGARAPPA, S. MATTIHALLI; NARASIMHA, N
    The present study was conducted during 2014-15 in Haveri district of Karnataka. Total sample of 120 Maize seed producing farmers were selected from 8 villages of Hirekerur and Ranebennur taluks. Majority of the respondents were found to be middle age, having primary school, small farmers, agriculture as main occupation, small sized family, low income category, high farm implements possesing group, medium cosmopoliteness, low extension participation, low economic motivation, low mass media exposure, low social participation. Majority of maize seed producing farmers were having high innovativeness, high decision making ability, medium information seeking ability, low risk orientation, high management orientation, medium level leadership ability, medium achievement motivation, high level scientific orientation, overall 40 per cent of maize seed producing farmers were of high entrepreneurial category. It was found that positive significant relationship between occupation, annual income, social participation and extension participation with entrepreneurial behaviour. Kaiser-Mayer- Olkin measure of sampling adequacy of 0.582 indicated that all the variables were necessarily measuring different components. More number of respondents expressed lack of electricity for irrigation supply and high labour cost as main constraint and suggested for proper and timely supply of electricity and to develop labour saving technologies.
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    A STUDY ON AGRICULTURAL RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY THE FARMERS OF EASTERN DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2015-08-20) VIDYADHARA, B.; SURESHA, S. V
    The present study was conducted in the year 2013-14 in Bengaluru, Chickballapura and Tumkur districts of eastern dry zone of Karnataka to study the knowledge and adoption levels of the farmers to manage the risks in agriculture. Ex-post facto research design was employed to elicit the data from 120 respondents. Major findings were; more than half (53.33 %) of the farmers had medium level of knowledge and less than half (44.17 %) of the farmers had medium level of adoption on risk management strategies in agriculture. Land holding, annual income, scientific orientation and innovativeness by the respondents had significant association with the knowledge and adoption of risk management strategies at 1 per cent level whereas, social participation, cosmopoliteness, training undergone, extension contact and extension participation had significant association at 5 per cent level with both knowledge and adoption. Private agency representatives were found to be most preferred information source by the farmers.Production risk is the major risk faced by the farmers. Wrong methods of plant protection measures followed by increased cost of cultivation and inputs, pest and disease attacks and uneven rainfall distribution, insufficient market knowledge were the factors responsible for different risks in agriculture. To overcome the different types of risks farmers suggested use of pest and disease resistant varieties, advance crop loans from the agencies, adoption of crop insurance and contract farming, use of market information. Hence, the department of agriculture, developmental agencies and other private agencies need to encourage the adoption of above suggested risk mitigating techniques.
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    A STUDY ON MUSHROOM ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR IN KARNATAKA
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2015-08-10) MAHANTESH, SHIRUR; Shivalinge Gowda, N. S
    Considering the importance of mushroom cultivation as a potential income generating agribusiness, the present research was undertaken to study the entrepreneurial behaviour of mushroom growers, to analyse the performance of mushroom producing units, marketing channels, consumer behaviour, technological and institutional support available to mushroom entrepreneurs and to discuss the constraints and suggestions to promote mushroom entrepreneurship. Sixty mushroom growing entrepreneurs and 150 consumers across Karnataka were interviewed for the study. The research revealed that 55.00 per cent mushroom growers fall in the medium category of entrepreneurial behaviour. The mushroom growers with high and very high level of entrepreneurial behaviour are 16.67 and 6.66 per cent respectively. Ten per cent and 11.67 per cent mushroom growers belonged to very low and low level of entrepreneurial behaviour. Higher number of respondents (53.33 %) were low on performance index. Only 5.00 and 3.33 per cent enterprises were in the high and very high level of performance index respectively. Very small units mostly sell their produce to consumers and retailers; whereas very big units depend mostly on wholesalers. Nearly half of the consumers were in the medium category followed by nearly 40.00 per cent in the low and about 10.00 per cent in the high mushroom consumer behaviour. Non-availability of spawn, exploitation by market middlemen, exploitation by consultants and quality standards of spawn were major constraints. Subsidy and loan facility for mushroom entrepreneurship followed by creating awareness about mushroom consumption, providing spawn at nearest places were the suggestions of majority entrepreneurs.
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    AN ANALYSIS OF TRAININGS ORGANIZED BY STAFF TRAINING UNIT, UAS, BANGALORE AND ITS IMPACT
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2015-08-07) MIARKA R, D’SOUZA; Nagaraja, N.
    With a view to developing a comprehensive methodology to organize and assess the impact of training, a study was conducted during 2014-15 by obtaining judges opinion. A comprehensive methodology constitutes three phases and 20 steps. In the first phase (pre-training), the steps considered were training need assessment, setting objectives, development of content, preparation of session plan, method of instruction, requirement of training support material, requirement of needed resources; Training phase (second phase) comprise pre-test, use of suitable resource persons, appropriate logistics, organizing training as per plan, training approach, supply of reference material, monitoring, and preparation of training completion report; and the third one, Post training phase comprise post-test, post training contacts with trainees, feedback on utility of training at the field level, feedback on extent of application of lessons learnt, consequential effect on intended clients, and impact assessment strategies. Using the developed training methodology, a study was conducted in Staff Training Unit of University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore considering 25 trainings organized for the extension staff of Dept. of Agriculture. The findings of the study revealed that, the mean training efficiency score was found to be 76.40 indicating a better quality of imparting training. However, there was no emphasis on post training phase. The second level of assessment of trainings regarding application of technologies learnt in training was done considering 250 trainee respondents. The findings revealed that about 25 technologies were applied by the trainees in varying degrees indicating fair level of adoption of technologies learnt.
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    PERCEPTION AND KNOWLEDGE OF PADDY GROWERS TOWARDS IMPROVED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES IN TUNGABHADRA PROJECT AREA OF KARNATAKA
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2015-08-06) NAGARAJ; KRISHNAMURTHY, B.
    The present study was conducted in two taluks of Raichur district in Karnataka state during 2014-15 to analyse the perception and knowledge of paddy growers towards improved production technologies. The total sample constituted 180 paddy growers comprising of 60 marginal farmers, 60 small farmers and 60 big farmers from 12 villages of two taluks in Raichur district. Data was collected from 180 paddy growers using pre-tested interview schedule. The results revealed that 42.22 per cent of paddy growers had high level of perception, whereas 32.78 and 25.00 per cent of paddy growers had medium and low level of perception towards improved production technologies, respectively. Most of the paddy growers (37.78%) belonged to high knowledge level category, while 32.22 and 30.00 per cent of the paddy growers were belonging to medium and low knowledge categories, respectively. Education, farming experience, innovative proneness, achievement motivation and mass media exposure of paddy growers had significant association with their perception and knowledge level. 52.00 per cent and 71.20 per cent of the variation in perception and knowledge of paddy growers respectively could be explained by the selected 17 independent variables. Nonavailability of labours, lack of knowledge to manage the diseases and low price of the product were the major management, technical and marketing problems faced by paddy growers respectively. Providing agricultural inputs and machines on hire basis and providing efficient credit facilities were the important suggestions of paddy growers to overcome the problems.
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    Effectiveness of Programmed Instruction in Educating Extension Functionaries on New Agricultural Technology – An Experimental Study
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2015-08-04) Manjula, N; nagaraja, N
    A research study was conducted to explore the potentiality of Programmed Instruction (PI) as an extension method in comparison with lecture method to teach extension functionaries on new agricultural technology. The effectiveness was measured considering extent of learning in different sub-domains of cognitive and affective domains. The PI material was developed on the subject, impact of climate change, mitigation and adaptation strategies in agriculture. Appropriate scales to measure cognitive and affective domains were developed and used. The study was conducted using Solomon four group experimental design. The respondents were 240 extension functionaries of the Karnataka State Department of Agriculture. The results revealed that, the mean effectiveness scores of PI in respect of cognitive domain was 45.17 with a range of 37.17 to 52.33 in different sub-domains. Similarly, the mean effectiveness scores of affective domain were 41.36 with a range of 35.33 to 51.00 in different sub-domains. The mean effectiveness score in lecture method for cognitive domain was 32.83 with a range from 25.67 to 37.17 in different sub-domains. For affective domain, it was 35.43 with a range from 29.60 to 42.13, indicating PI was more effective than the lecture. Thirteen independent variables namely, educational level, job involvement, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, achievement motivation, leadership abilities, contacts with research system, climate change orientation, exposure to print media, exposure to electronic media, agricultural articles reading habit, participation in capacity building activities and time spent in field extension work by the extension functionaries were positively and significantly related to the effectiveness of PI.
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    CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ADOPTION PATTERN AND PRODUCTION CONSTRAINTS OF POMEGRANATE GROWERS IN KOPPAL DISTRICT
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2015-07-10) MEHABOOB, PASHA; RAGHUPRASAD, K.P.
    The study was conducted in Koppal district of Karnataka during 2011-12 to know the adoption pattern and production constraints of pomegranate growers about recommended cultivation practices. The data was collected through personal interview method and analyzed by using suitable statistical measures. The findings of the study revealed that 38.33 per cent the respondents were found in high level of overall adoption category, followed by low (31.67%) and medium (30.00%). The independent variables studied viz. cosmoploliteness, extension participation, risk orientation, management orientation, achievement motivation and information seeking ability were positive and significant relationship with adoption. Production constraints were the major problems faced by the pomegranate growers followed by Labour, Technical, Marketing, Input and Financial problems. Further, existing marketing pattern of revealed that majority of pomegranate growers (85.00%) sold their produce through middlemen or retailer at the farm. Further, Source of market information followed by pomegranate growers were, visited to market intermediaries (58.33%), personally visiting the market (66.67%), television (50.00%), internet (37.50%), radio and newspaper (26.17%). A new market strategy (model) was suggested based on the results of the study which includes formation of growers’ organization, producers companies, direct sale, grading, branding, packing etc., to enhance the profit margin of the produce.