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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 A STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF POMEGRANATE GROWERS UNDER PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EXTENSION SERVICES(University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2018-08-01) ABHISHEK NAIK, S.; SURESHA., S.V.The Pomegranate is cultivated as a commercial crop because of its high income generating capacity. The pomegranate needs a critical care at the production level and it enhances the need of consultancy service for the production. Hence, there are number of Private people working as consultants along with public extension personnel. The affordability of the growers to pay is a key factor for private extension in the area. The study was conducted in Hiriyuru, Chitradurga and Challakere taluks of Chitradurga district with a total sample size of 120 comprising 60 growers each under public extension and private extension systems. The “Ex-post fact” research design was used in the study. The 40 per cent of the growers were under medium adoption category in public extension services and under private extension service 40 per cent growers were found in high adoption category. The growers who were availed public extension services belonged to medium income category (43.33 %). Whereas 45 per cent of growers from private extension service fall under high income category. The Benefit to cost ratio was highest in Challakere taluk (3.47) in case of private extension and in Public Extension the highest return was found in Hiriyuru (3.05).The results indicated that the farmers under private extension services obtained higher income by adoption of improved practices. This may be attributed to the facts that the private extension offer recent and competent technological information including marketing services on payment basis.ThesisItem Open Access AN ANALYSIS OF FARMERS’ WELL-BEING UNDER IRRIGATED AND RAINFED FARMING CONDITIONS IN CENTRAL DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA(University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2018-08-01) NAVEEN KUMAR, P.; NARASIMHA, N.The present study was carried out in Davangere and Chitradurga districts in Central Dry-Zone of Karnataka State during 2017-2018 to analyse the farmer’s wellbeing under irrigated and rainfed farming conditions. Data was collected from a sample of 90 farmers from irrigated condition (Davanagere, Harihara and Channagiri taluks of Davanagere district) and 90 farmers from rainfed condition (Challakere, Molakalmuru and Hiryur taluks of Chitradurga district) using a pre-tested interview schedule. A standardised scale to measure the farmer’s well-being was specifically developed for the study and the same was used to analyse the well-being of the farmers. The results indicated that a larger proportion of farmers of irrigated condition (42.22%) were belonging to high category of well-being, whereas over one-third i.e. 35.56 % and 22.22 per cent of them were belonging to medium and low category of well-being, respectively. With respect to rainfed condition, a greater number of farmers i.e. 44.44% were belonging to low level of well-being, while 34.44 and 21.12 per cent of them were belonging to medium and high level of well-being, respectively. There existed a significant difference in well-being of farmers between irrigated and rainfed conditions. In irrigated condition, ‘high cost of inputs’ was the major constraint in acquiring higher level of well-being by the farmers, while ‘uncertainty of rainfall’ was the major constraint in acquiring higher well-being of farmers in rainfed condition. Timely supply of quality agricultural inputs at subsidised rates was the major suggestion offered by both the irrigated (98.00%) and rainfed (97.78%) farmers.ThesisItem Open Access A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF ONION PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES AND MARKETING BEHAVIOUR OF ONION GROWERS IN GADAG DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA(University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2018-08-01) SHASHIDHAR K., BARAKER; SHASHIDHAR K., BARAKER; Lalitha, K.C.; Lalitha, K.C.The study was carried out in four taluks of Gadag district during 2017- 18 to study on knowledge and adoption of onion production technologies and marketing behaviour of onion growers in Gadag district of Karnataka. Data was collected from 120 onion growers using a pre-tested interview schedule. The results revealed considerable respondents 45.83% had fallen in medium knowledge category while 32.50 per cent and 21.67% comes under low and high knowledge category. In case of adoption, 42.50 % of the respondents belonged to medium category followed by 31.66 and 25.84% of them belonging to high and low adoption category, respectively. Major problems faced by the onion growers are fluctuation in market price, middleman, commission agents, hand weeding in time, labour consuming and expensive, lack of capital and NAFED do not purchase onion, high cost of fertilizers and pesticides, Labour problem during harvesting. The major suggestions expressed by the onion growers were support price based on production cost, export of onion to foreign countries and crop demonstration about improved variety to overcome the problems.ThesisItem Open Access JOB COMPETENCE AND JOB SATISFACTION OF AGRICULTURAL OFFICERS IN SOUTHERN ZONE OF ANDHRAPRADESH(University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2018-08-01) KUSUMALATHA, D.V.; Shivalinge Gowda, N.S.The study was conducted in southern zone of Andhrapradesh during the year 2017-18. Southern zone consists of three districts viz., Chittoor, Cuddapah and Nellore. From each district 30 AOs were selected, thus a total sample size of 90 AOs were taken for the study. The main findings of the study were 41.11 per cent of the AOs were in medium level of job competence and 37.78 per cent of AOs were having medium level of job satisfaction. Age, education qualification, achievement motivation, morale, job involvement, organisational climate, e-learning, level of aspiration, training received, mass media exposure, commitment to work and attitude towards farmers had significant relationship with the level of job competence and job satisfaction. Twenty three independent variables included in the study had contributed to the tune of 74.50 and 52.00 per cent of variation in the job competence and job satisfaction of AOs. Job competence and Job satisfaction were found to have significant relationship between them. The major problems encountered by AOs were political interferences followed by farmers are more interested in inputs/ subsidies rather than technology/ information. The major suggestion offered by AOs were good audio visual aids and provision of conveyance facilities to them.ThesisItem Open Access ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR OF FLOWER GROWERS IN TUMKUR DISTRICT(University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2018-08-01) BINDU, N.; Shivalingaiah, Y.N.The study was conducted in Madhugiri taluk of Tumkur district of Karnataka during 2017-18 to analyse economic performance and entrepreneurial behaviour of flower growers. Forty Chrysanthemum, forty Jasmine and forty Crossandra growers were selected by using simple random technique. Thus, making a total sample size of 120. The data was collected through personal interview method and analysed by using appropriate statistical tools. The findings revealed that, 43.33 per cent of the flower growers come under medium economic performance category followed by low (30.83 %) and high (25.83 %) categories of economic performance. The data revealed that B:C ratio of Chrysanthemum production was found to be higher (3.97) followed by Crossandra (2.21) and Jasmine production (1.64). Further, more than two-fifth (43.34 %) of the flower growers falls under medium entrepreneurial behaviour category followed by high (29.16 %) and low (27.50 %) entrepreneurial behaviour group. The major technological gaps found in flower production in areas such as use of micro nutrients, mulching and use of weedicides (I Rank), drip irrigation (II Rank), pinching in case of chrysanthemum or pruning in case of jasmine and crossandra (III Rank) and application of recommended quantity of nutrients (IV Rank). Major constraints faced by the growers with respect to flower production were, irregular supply of electricity, lack of irrigation source, higher interest on loan and untimely availability of credit. High wages and non-availability of labourer were the main issues relating to labour. Exploitation by the middlemen and perishability of the flower were the major marketing constraints.ThesisItem Open Access A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF IMPROVED CULTIVATION PRACTICES BY GINGER GROWERS IN HASSAN DISTRICT(University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2018-08-01) SUNDRESHA, B.R.; Nanjappa, D.The study was carried out in two taluks of Hassan district during 2017- 18 to study the knowledge and adoption of improved cultivation practices by ginger growers. Data was collected from 80 ginger growers using a pre-tested interview schedule. The results revealed that majority of the ginger growers possessed high (60.00 %) level of knowledge about improved cultivation practices, whereas 21.25 and 18.75 per cent of the ginger growers belonged to medium and low knowledge categories, respectively. More than half (53.75 %) of the ginger growers belonged to high adoption category, while 25.00 and 21.25 per cent of the ginger growers belonged to medium and low adoption categories, respectively. Fluctuation in market price, non-availability of seed material, lack of irrigation facilities and high cost of seed material were the major problems faced by the ginger growers. The major suggestions expressed by the ginger growers were providing credit to the farmers at lower rates of interest and timely supply of inputs at subsidized rates to overcome the problems.ThesisItem Open Access KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF FARM MECHANISATION AMONG PADDY GROWERS IN RAICHUR DISTRICT(University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2018-08-01) RAVI SHANKAR CHAND, REDDY; Raghuprasad, K.P.Farm mechanization became part and parcel of the current agriculture due to non-availability of man powers and need of timely operations. Hence a study was conducted in Raichur district to assess the knowledge level and adoption of farm mechanization among paddy growers, which is coming under Tungabhadra command area. The results of the study revealed that, nearly half (45.00 %) of the respondents possessed medium level of knowledge about the farm mechanization in paddy since, mechanization is slowly increasing in this region. Further, it indicates the similar trends with respect to adoption level, also accordingly 42.50 per cent of respondents belong to medium category of adoption. It is due to the fact that the farm mechanization in paddy cultivation becomes inevitable, hence gradually increasing in the study area. Further results shows that majority of the paddy growers adopted the basic and most required implements viz., cultivator, mouldboard plough, puddler, harrow etc., since these are very essential and easily available in custom hiring centers. From the findings of the study it can be concluded that still there is wide scope for the development departments and extension agencies to intervene and enhance the knowledge and adoption level of farmers in farm mechanization by carrying out different extension activities like training, demonstrations, exposure visits etc., to facilitate farmers to use more machineries in farming so as to reduce the cost of cultivation and enhance the income.ThesisItem Open Access CLIMATE RESILIENCE MANAGEMENT LEVEL AMONG FARMERS IN AGRICULTURE IN EASTERN DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, GKVK BENGALURU, 2019-11-08) MURTHY, M.A.; NAGABHUSHANAM, K.The present study was carried in the Eastern Dry Zone (Zone-5) of Karnataka during 2017-18 . It covers six districts viz., Tumkur, Banglore rural, Bangalore urban, Kolar, Ramanagar and Chickballapur. Data was collected from a sample of 90 farmers from irrigated area and 90 farmers from rainfed area using pre-tested interview schedule through personal interview method. Standardized scales to measure climate resilience management level among farmers was developed and used in the study. The study showed that in irrigated situation, 36.67 per cent of respondents belonged to low climate resilience management level. Whereas, in rainfed situation, half of the farmers 50.00 per cent had low level of climate resilience management. Variables like mass media exposure, economic motivation, and distance to market, innovative proneness, irrigational potential, education, risk orientation and extent of natural capital were found highly significant association with climate resilience management level. Documentation of adoptability of climate resilient management in response to vulnerability of climate change showed that majority of farmers followed drought tolerant varieties followed by intercropping, pest and disease resistant varieties. Majority of farmers expressed their problems were non availability of labour and other constraints like, higher cost of the agricultural inputs, non availability of inputs. Majority of farmers suggested that timely supply inputs (seeds, plant protection chemicals, fertilizers) followed by subsidies/compensation has to be given for the crops to make up the cost of cultivation due to weather aberrations creating awareness about adoption measures against climate change.ThesisItem Open Access SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SUJALA WATERSHED PROJECT IN TUMKUR DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2019-12-27) MAHALAKSHMI, S. M.; Govinda Gowda, V.Karnataka is the eighth largest state in India, with highest proportion of drought prone area. In order to overcome this, Government of Karnataka has initiated Sujala watershed project. The present study has been conducted during the year 2018-19. Two sub-watersheds were selected each from Sira and Tiptur taluks. From each sub-watershed, three micro-watersheds were selected. 180 beneficiary and 30 non-beneficiary farmers were selected. Thus from 210 respondents, data was collected through personal interview. The overall index for beneficiaries was found to be 0.60 and that of non-beneficiaries was 0.47. The results found that more than half (51.11%) of the beneficiaries belonged to high social consequences category followed by low (29.44%). Whereas, in case of nonbeneficiaries, forty per cent belonged to medium social consequences category. Regarding economic consequences, 48.89 per cent of the beneficiary farmers belonged to medium economic consequences category followed by high (30.56%). Whereas, in case of nonbeneficiary farmers, 43.33 per cent belonged to medium consequence category followed by low (30.00 %). With respect to technological consequences, 42.22 per cent belonged to high technological consequence category followed by medium (41.67%). Whereas, in case of non-beneficiary farmers, forty per cent of respondents belonged to medium and 36.67 per cent belonged to high technological consequence category. Uneven rainfall and lack of financial support for maintenance of soil and water conservation structures were the priority constraints of the beneficiaries and the major suggestions offered includes financial assistance for maintenance of watershed structure and large area should be covered under watershed programme.
