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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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Subject: Agricultural Extension × End date: 2017 × Start date: 2017 × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.