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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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ThesisItem Open Access AN ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN FARM COMMUNICATION - AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2017-11-02) SOWJANYA, S; GANGADHARAPPA, N. R.Twenty first century is characterized as an age of information technology. Some of the electronic gadgets like television, computers, mobiles, internet and many others are effectively used by technologists to disseminate agricultural related information to the large number of farmers. The study was conducted in Bhadravathi taluk of Shivamogga district. Total sample size is 120 paddy growers comprising 30 each under television, mobile, agri-portal treatments and control group. The before and after experimental research design was used in the study. The three treatments namely television (T1), mobile (Whatsapp) (T2), agriportal (T3) and control group was tested for their effectiveness. The effectiveness was studied in terms of knowledge gain, attitude and symbolic adoption through these three treatments and in control group. With respect to knowledge gain, mobile (Whatsapp) treatment (T2) was found to be most effective and superior in imparting knowledge with the enhancement of 50.46 per cent, followed by television treatment (48.30%) and agriportal treatment (19.92 %). With respect to attitude, mobile (Whatsapp) treatment (T2) was found to be most effective and superior in imparting attitude with the enhancement of 63.41 per cent, followed by agriportal (T3) (57.96 %) and television (T1) (55.38 %).With respect to symbolic adoption, Mobile (Whatsapp) (T2) was found to be most effective and superior in imparting symbolic adoption with the enhancement of 25.32 per cent followed by agriportal (T3) (20.83 %) and television (T1) (19.92 %). There was no variation in the effectiveness of control group as they were not exposed to any of the treatment. More number of paddy growers faced electricity problem as a major constraint and suggested to provide more power supply to rural areas.ThesisItem Open Access AWARENESS, ATTITUDE AND ADOPTION TOWARDS CARBON SEQUESTRATION TECHNOLOGIES IN RICE AND SUGARCANE BASED FARMING SYSTEM(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2017-10-27) SURESH, D. K.; Shivamurthy, M.The present investigation was carried out to assess Awareness, Attitude and Adoption of carbon sequestration technologies in Rice and Sugarcane based farming system. One hundred eighty farmers practicing rice and sugarcane based farming system were randomly selected from Maddur, Mandya, Nanjanagoodu, T. Narasipura, Kollegala and Yelandur taluks of Mandya, Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts. Results revealed that, 37.78 per cent of the farmers were having favorable attitude towards carbon sequestration technologies and 40.00 per cent of them were moderately aware about the carbon sequestration technologies in rice and sugarcane based farming system, where as with respect to adoption only 42.22 per cent of the farmers have moderately adopted carbon sequestration technologies. Correlation analysis indicated the profile characters viz., education, occupation, land holdings, annual income, mass media exposure, scientific orientation, Risk orientation, Farming experience and innovative proneness had a positive and significant relationship at one per cent level; Similarly, age, Extension contact, Management orientation and Cosmopoliteness had positive and significant relationship with attitude towards carbon sequestration technologies at five per cent level. The R2 value indicated that all the 19 independent variables had contributed to the tune of 69.00 per cent of variation in attitude of farmers towards carbon sequestration technologies. While adoption of carbon sequestration technologies, low price for the produce and nonavailability of labors were the top most constraints expressed by the farmers and they also suggested that, RSK’s should ensure supplying of critical inputs at appropriate time in the villages and increasing subsidies on micro irrigation structures beside giving support price based on cost of cultivation were the major suggestions expressed by farmers.ThesisItem Open Access TECHNOLOGICAL GAP ANALYSIS OF REDGRAM GROWERS IN BIDAR DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2017-10-27) MOHD, RIYAZ; Raghupathi, D.The research was conducted in Bidar District of Karnataka during the year 2016- 17 to analyse the technological gap among redgram growers. Data were collected from Aurad, Bhalki and Basavakalyan taluks. A total 120 respondents were selected randomly for the study. The study revealed that about (48.33%) of the respondents belonged to medium technological gap category followed by high (33.33%) and low (18.34%) category of technological gap. Among 14 selected redgram cultivation practices, highest technological gap was observed in application of weedicides (86.67%) and no technological gap was found in preparatory tillage and harvesting practices. The independent variables like economic status, farming experience, innovative proneness, social participation, cell phone utilization and management orientation had positive and significant relationship with technological gap at 5% level of significance. While mass media participation had positive and highly significant relationship with technological gap at 1% level of significance. Further, it was observed that majority (58.83%) of respondents sold their produce through commission agents. With respect to constraints of marketing majority (79.16%) of respondents opined that unanticipated price fluctuation, as a consequence they obtained low profits and about 66.66 per cent of respondents suggested to reduce the middlemen interference in marketing of redgram so that producers share in consumer rupee can be enhanced. The development departments of agriculture and allied sector should intensify the extension educational activity to educate and popularise the farmers about recommended cultivation practices of redgram by using appropriate extension methods to motivate them to adopt recommended practices.ThesisItem Open Access AN ANALYSIS OF IMPACT OF WOMEN SELFHELP GROUPS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS MEMBERS IN TUMKUR DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2017-09-28) CHAITHRA, G. J.; SHIVALINGE GOWDA, N. S.The present study was conducted in Gubbi and Sira taluk of Tumkur district during the year 2016-17 to analyse the impact of Women SHGs on sustainable development of its members. Totally 180 respondents (90 SHG members and 90 non SHG members) were selected from two taluks. The data were collected with the help of structured interview schedule and analyzed. A index was specifically developed to measure the sustainable development of SHG members. The findings of the study revealed that there is a significant difference between the sustainable development of SHG members and non-members. It was found that 44.45 per cent of SHG members belonged to the high sustainable development level, whereas 75.56 per cent of nonmembers had low level of sustainable development. The results of the study indicated that, 37.78 per cent of SHG members had medium level of livelihood security, about 50.00 per cent of SHG members had medium level of Entrepreneurial behavior, 52.22 per cent of SHG members had high level of group dynamics, 43.33 per cent of the SHG members belonged to medium level of women empowerment and 40.00 per cent of SHG members belonged to medium level of standard of living. Education, mass-media exposure, cosmopoliteness, fatalism, subsidiary enterprises, self-reliance, social Participation, extension participation, e-literacy and number of trainings attended had a positive significant relation towards sustainable development of SHGs. Further the major suggestion given by the SHG members is convincing the family members. The major constraint experienced by women SHG members is non-cooperation from family members.ThesisItem Open Access IMPACT OF INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM DEMONSTRATION (IFSD) PROGRAMME ON LIVELIHOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SECURITY OF FARMERS OF MANDYA DISTRICT(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2017-08-21) KOWSALYA, K. S.; KRISHNAMURTHY, B.The present study was conducted during 2016-17 in Mandya taluk of Karnataka state. A sample of, 160 beneficiaries and 40 non-beneficiaries from 14 villages of Mandya taluk. The results of overall livelihood security, nearly half of the (46.87 %) beneficiaries belonged to the high category. Whereas, 77.50 per cent of non-beneficiaries comes under low category. With respect to nutritional security 41.25 per cent of beneficiaries belonged to high category. Whereas, 60.00 per cent of the non-beneficiaries comes under low category. The results of ‘t’ test indicates that the overall livelihood and nutritional security mean score of beneficiaries was 207.00 and 95.30 as compared to non-beneficiaries, who got 183.88 and 85.83. The difference in mean value was significant at one per cent level. This clearly indicates that beneficiaries had high impact than non-beneficiaries. The R2 value pointed out that all the 20 independent variables had contributed to the tune of 86.50 per cent and 68.70 per cent of variation in livelihood security in case of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries respectively. With respect to nutritional security, the R2 value pointed out that all the 20 independent variables had contributed to the tune of 85.70 per cent and 65.30 per cent of variation in case of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. More number of beneficiaries expressed lack of remunerative prices for farm produce and high price fluctuation as major constraint. Whereas, majority of the non-beneficiaries expressed lack of awareness and government encouragement about the subsidiary as a major constraint.ThesisItem Open Access IMPACT OF NATIONAL INNOVATIONS ON CLIMATE RESILIENT AGRICULTURE (NICRA) ON THE RURAL LIVELIHOOD SECURITY OF FARMERS OF CHIKKABALLAPURA DISTRICT(2017-08-16) CHARITHA V., GOPAL; SHIVALINGAIAH), Y. N.The present study was conducted in the year 2016-2017 in S. Raghuttahalli and D. Nagarajahosahalli of Chintamani taluk, Chikkaballapura district. A sample of 80 farmers from S. Raghuttahalli, a NICRA village as beneficiaries and 40 farmers as nonbeneficiaries from D.Nagarajahosahalli, a non-NICRA village were selected randomly. Thus, making a total sample size of 120. The overall mean impact index of beneficiaries was 76.35 as compared to non-beneficiaries, who got 61.25 which is significant. In respect of overall impact, nearly half of the (47.50 %) of the non-beneficiary farmers belonged to the low overall impact category, whereas, 42.50 per cent of beneficiary farmers comes under the high overall impact category. With respect to extent of adoption of climate resilient practices shows that 47.50 per cent of the non-beneficiary farmers belonged to the low adoption category, whereas, significant per cent (36.25 %) of the beneficiaries belonged to the high adoption category. Significant percentage of beneficiary farmers have adopted the climate resilient practices like drip irrigation (80.00 %), use of early maturing and drought tolerant high yielding varieties like ML-365, MR-6 (52.50 %), earthing up in redgram (57.50 %), crop diversification (72.50 %) and establishment of fodder bank (31.25 %) compared to non-beneficiaries. Uneven rainfall, financial constraints, lack of resources and lack of technical guidance were the major constraints in adoption of climate resilient practices.ThesisItem Open Access A STUDY ON ADOPTION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF HYBRID PADDY CULTIVATION PRACTICES AMONG FARMERS OF MANDYA DISTRICT(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2017-08-08) SHALINI, D.M.; CHANDRASHEKHAR S, VASTERThe present study was conducted in the year 2016-2017 at Mandya and Maddur taluks of Mandya district. A sample of 12 hybrid paddy growing farmers from five villages each of Mandya and Maddur taluk were selected randomly. Thus making a sample size of 120. The results showed that majority of the respondents (47.50 %) of the hybrid paddy growers belongs to medium adoption category. Whereas, 30.00 and 22.50 per cent of the respondents belongs to high and low adoption categories, respectively. It was observed that majority of the hybrid paddy (58.33 %) were found to be in medium level of economic performance followed by 21.66 per cent of hybrid paddy growers were having high and 20.00 per cent of hybrid paddy growers were having low economic performance, respectively. Results revealed that education, occupation, land holding, annual income, extension agency contact, extension participation , innovative proneness, knowledge, exposure to mass media and cosmopoliteness were significantly related to their extent of adoption of hybrid paddy growers. It was also found that age, education, occupation, land holding, annual income, exposure to mass media, extension agency contact and knowledge, achievement motivation and innovative proneness cosmopoliteness were significantly related to their extent of economic performance of hybrid paddy growers. It was found that high cost of fertilizers and marketing were the major constraints.ThesisItem Open Access KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF EXTENSION FIELD FUNCTIONARIES TOWARDS ATMA IN SOUTHERN KARNATAKA(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2017-08-08) SHAMSHADUNNISA, S.; Varadaraju, G. M.The study was conducted in six districts of Southern Karnataka viz., Bengaluru Rural, Bengaluru Urban, Chickaballapura, Kolar, Tumakuru and Ramanagara during the year 2016-17 to assess the knowledge and attitude of extension field functionaries towards ATMA. Totally 90 respondents were selected randomly based on available strength in the selected districts. The results revealed that about 42.22 per cent of the respondents had medium level of overall knowledge regarding ATMA followed by high (30.00%) and low (27.78%). With respect to attitude of respondents towards ATMA, it was found that about 36.67 per cent of respondents had most favourable attitude followed by least favourable (35.55%) and favourable (27.78%). Further it was found that the independent variables like training undergone, cosmopoliteness, scientific orientation, achievement motivation, innovative proneness, mass media participation and job autonomy had positive and significant relationship with their knowledge level. With respect to relationship between independent variables and attitude of respondents towards ATMA, it was found that variables like mass media participation, education, work experience, scientific orientation, innovative proneness, training undergone, cosmopoliteness and job autonomy had positive and significant relationship with attitude. The results of constraints indicated that (88.89%) and (84.44%) of the respondents faced the constraints as less support from the line departments and no proper planning in input distribution respectively. Thus the concerned agencies should impart the educational activities to the extension field functionaries to perform their job in a better way.ThesisItem Open Access IMPACT ANALYSIS OF FRONT LINE DEMONSTRATIONS OF KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA ON BENEFICIARY FARMERS IN BELAGAVI DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2017-08-03) MUTTURAJ, KADALGI; GOVINDA GOWDA, V.The present study has been conducted during the year 2016-17, in four taluks of Belagavi district namely Gokak, Athani, Hukkeri and Savadatti. From the four taluks 120 farmers were selected spreading in twelve villages. The findings of the study revealed that 45.00 per cent of the beneficiary farmers belonging to high categories of Knowledge, Adoption, Yield improvement, economic improvement and social recognition after the conduct of FLDs. The front line demonstrations has made significant impact on cropping intensity from single crop to double crop. With respect to cropping pattern in Kharif season, the crops like Sugarcane, Turmeric, Soybean increased about 10.00, 11.66 and 9.16 per cent respectively and in Rabi, Wheat crop about 12.50 per cent and in Summer, Maize about 13.33 per cent increased and there is significant increased in farm power like, sprayer, irrigation pumpset and farm animals. The results on relationship between overall impact of FLDs with the personal socio-psychological characteristic of the beneficiary farmers, indicated that there is positive and significant relationship with their education, family type, innovativeness, cosmopolitensss, economic motivation, risk orientation, achievement motivation, management orientation and information seeking behaviour and the independent variables has 69.58 per cent contribution towards the overall impact of FLDs. The major constraint expressed by the beneficiary farmers was non availability of labour and the suggestion offered was developing labour saving technologies.