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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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    AN ANALYSIS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF BYADAGI CHILLI GROWERS IN HAVERI DISTRICT, KARNATAKA
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2022-12-18) VEENA, BUSHETTI; KRISHNAMURTHY, B
    The study was conducted in Haveri district of Karnataka to study the entrepreneurial behaviour and economic performance of Byadagi chilli growers during the year 2021-22. The Ex-post-facto research design has been adopted in the present study. Haveri, Hangal and Byadagi talukas were selected based on high, medium and low productivity of Byadagi chilli, respectively. From each taluka five villages selected based on availability of more number of Byadagi chilli growers and from each village 12 farmers were selected, thus total sample size encompassed to 180 farmers from 15 villages. It can be noticed that, less than half of the Byadagi chilli growers (47.22 %) belonged to middle age category, 30.55 per cent of Byadagi chilli growers were educated up to PUC, little more than half (56.67 %) of the Byadagi chilli growers belongs to joint family system. Equal number (40.00 %) and more than one third (37.78 %) of the Byadagi chilli growers belonged to medium category of extension participation, social participation and mass media exposure respectively and only 34.44 per cent of the farmers have undergone training programmes. The study also reveals that the overall entrepreneurial behaviour score based on the cumulative raw scores of all the six dimensions revealed that, more than two third of (68.33 %) of the Byadagi chilli growers had medium level of entrepreneurial behaviour followed by 19.45 per cent under low category and remaining (12.22 %) had high entrepreneurial behaviour. More than one third (38.33 %) of the growers had medium overall economic performance followed by low (32.78 %) and high (28.89 %) category. This might be due to the reason that the cost of production and profit are in inverse proportion.
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    PERFORMANCE OF NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS IN RURAL DEVLOPMENT AND PEOPLES ATTITUDE TOWARDS NGOS IN KARNATAKA : A DIAGNOSTIC STUDY
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 1999-08-30) SHASHIKUMAR, S.; SUNDARASWAMY, B.
    The present study was conducted to assess the performance of NGOs in rural development focussing on agriculture development, peoples' attitude, methodology followed in programme formulation and execution, extent of coordination with development departments, impact on beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries and personal, socio-economic characteristics of the beneficiaries. The information from 4 NGOs of northern districts. 250 beneficiaries and 50 non-beneficiaries was collected during 1997-98. The major findings were, IDS and SPV carried out less agricultural programmes and more welfare programmes. However, BIRDS and LORDS concentrated equally on agricultural and welfare programmes In the programme formulation and execution, maximum involvement of beneficiaries was found in the process of identification of problem, fixing priorities, search of alternate solution, preparation of plan of action, arranging materials and resources and in the final execution of programmes. NGOs, development departments and DAS staff provided the technical guidance. The financial support was ensured by sponsoring agencies and the government. External agencies and local bodies took the responsibility of evaluation and "ollow-up activities. Majority (78.4%) of the beneficiaries and (54.0%) non-beneficiaries had favourable attitude towards NGOs. Knowledge level of beneficiaries was found on par with knowledge level of non-beneficiaries. Majority (80%) of the beneficiaries realised maximum benefits and less percentage of non beneficiaries got minimum benefits indirectly through beneficiaries. All the NGOs were found to have coordination with development departments for technical advise, material inputs, and for financial support sometimes during all the steps of programme execution. Majority (66.0%) of the beneficiaries were of middle aged, about 70 per cent belonged to joint family, most (60%) of them were from forward castes. Negligible percentage possessed improved implements, livestock and had less contacts with extension agencies with less extension participation. Majority (72.4%) possessed radio followed by (33.6%) television and less per cent (24.0%) subscribed news Paper
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    PERCEPTION OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME AND RENEFITS DERIVED RY WOMEN BENEFICIARIES OF RATNAGIRI DISTRICT (M.S.)
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 1999-08-30) PARSHARAM HARDIKAR, DEEPAK; Dudhani, Dr. C.M.
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    EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING METHODS IN COMMUNICATING NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO RURAL WOMEN - AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, DHARWAD, 1997) B BIRADAR, NAGARATNA; B, SUNDARASWAMY
    Abstract not available
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    AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT MODES OF PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION ON MUSHROOM CULTIVATION THROUGH TELEVISION
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 2001-08-09) ATMARAM SAWANT, PRAMOD; ANSARI, M.R.
    The experimental study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of two modes of presentation of Information on mushroom cultivation through television. The two modes selected were, 'demonstration' and 'straight talk with visual aids'. Two sample groups, each of 50 respondents from two villages were exposed to selected two modes of presentation, separately. The 'before and after' experimental design was used in the study. The major findings were: Maximum gain in knowledge had occurred as a result of exposure to 'demonstration' mode of presentation (75.33 per cent), followed by 'straight talk with aids' mode (64.58 per cent). Knowledge gained by the respondents was retained to the maximum extent after 15 days and 30 days of telecast (68.58 per cent and 63.79 per cent, respectively) In case of 'demonstration' mode, followed by 'straight talk with visual aids' mode of presentation (56.71 per cent and 49.96 per cent, respectively). The personal and socio-economic characteristics namely, education, credit orientation and innovatlveness exhibited positive and significant relationship with gain In knowledge as well as retention of knowledge after 15 days and 30 days of telecast in both the modes. Majority of the respondents from 'demonstration' and 'straight talk with visual aids' mode, opined that the overall presentation of the mode to which they were exposed was 'excellent' (84.00 per cent and 78.00 per cent, respectively). Majority of the respondents suggested 'use of demonstration mode' (75.00 per cent) as well as'use of good quality (73.00 per cent) and relevant pictures/ scenes (72.00 per cent) to the toplc'for Improving the modes of presentation of farm telecast in general.
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    PRIVATIZATION OF EXTENSION SERVICE : ATTITUDE AND PREFERENCE OF FARMBRS AND EXTENSION PERSONNEL
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 2001-08-09) HANCHINAL, S. N.; SUNDARSWAMY, B.
    The study was conducted to know the attitude and preference of farmers and extension personnel towards privatization of extension service in 16 villages of Haveri District. Data was elicited from 240 farmer respondents and 60 extension personnel operating in the study area. The major findings were; Less than fifty per cent of farmers (42.08%) and extension personnel (35.00%) had favourable attitude towards privatization of extension service. Majority of the farmer respondents (61.67%) preferred technical service by private agencies in the area of seed production followed by cultivation of fruits (53.33%), vegetables (52.92%) and flowers (52.92%). Eighty three per cent (82.92%) of the farmer respondents were willing to pay towards technical service rendered in the area of seed production followed by irrigation technology (55.67%), cultivation of flowers (56.67%), fruits (55.00%) and vegetables (52.08%). Majority of the extension personnel respondents (70.00%) preferred technical service by private agencies in the area of flower cultivation followed by vegetable cultivation (66.67%), seed production (63.33%) and fruits cultivation (61.67%). Seventy per cent of the extension personnel were of the opinion to collect fee for the technical service rendered in the area of seed production followed by irrigation technology (60.00%), post harvest technology (55.00%), daily and poultry (55.00%), cultivation of fruits (53.33%), vegetables (51,67%) and land development (51.67%). The variables such as annual income (19.94%), cropping intensity (18.24%), attitude (14.17%) and development opportunity (13.24%) had greater contribution towards discriminating the seed producing farmers from that of farmers of non-seed producing category
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    A STUDY ON ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE PERCEPTION AND RELATED FACTORS OF TALUKA LEVEL EXTENSION PERSONNEL (ADF-lls) OF KARNATAKA STATE DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES
    (University of Agricultural Science, BANGALORE, 1995) SONTAKKI BHARAT, S; SUNDARASWAMY, B
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    A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE,FERTILIZER USE PATTERN AND CONSTRAINTS IN THE CULTIVATION OF SOYBEAN BY FARMERS OF NAGPUR DISTRICT,MAHARASHTRA
    (University of Agricultural Science, BANGALORE, 1995) SAKHARKAR VILAS, S; SUNDARASWAMY, B
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    TIME MANAGEMENT AND JOB PERFORMANCE OF COUNTY EXTENSION DIRECTORS
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BANGALORE, 1990) RADHAKRISHNA, RAMA B; YODER, EDGAR P
    The primary purpose of the study was to examine the time management practices of Pennsylvania county extension directors (CEDs) and to analyze the relationships between time management, job performance and select demographic variables. A secondary purpose was to determine the congruency among self (CED), superior (ARD) and subordinate (agent) appraisals of CED job performance. The design for the study was descriptive-correlational research. The target population for the study consisted of full-time extension personnel employed by Penn State Cooperative Extension. Fifty-two CEDs and 98 extension agents were randomly selected following a combination of cluster and stratified random sampling procedures. In addition, the five assistants to the five regional directors (ARDs) were also included in the study to assess CED job performance. A three-part questionnaire consisting of time management, job performance and demographic characteristics was developed by the researcher. The statements were measured on a five point Likert-type scale. The questionnaire was reviewed for content and face validity by a panel of experts consisting of faculty and administrators at Penn State. The Cronbach's reliability coefficient alpha of .96 was obtained for die entire instrument. A total of 49 CEDs (94%), 4 ARDs (80%) and 85 agents (87%) responded to the survey. Data were analyzed using frequencies, percentages, means and correlations (PPMR). In addition, two non-parametric techniques (coefficient of concordance and Spearman rho) were also utilized to determine the congruency between self, superior, and subordinate appraisals of CED job performance. The findings suggest that Pennsylvania CEDs ""sometimes"" to ""very often"" practice the skill of time management. The overall score of 3.10 for the time management portion indicates that Pennsylvania CEDs recognize the importance of time and how to manage it well. The CEDs generally ""agreed"" or ""strongly agreed"" with the seven CED job performance dimensions. The mean scores ranged from a low of 3.52 (supervision dimension) to a high of 4.38 (budget dimension). The CEDs perceived themselves to perform their CED job responsibilities at a relatively high level. Significant relationships were found between five time management and seven CED job performance dimensions. Further, a significant relationship (r=.64,p<.001) was found between the overall CED job performance score and the overall time management score. This meant that CEDs who scored high on time management likewise scored high on job performance, suggesting that those CEDs who perceived they managed time well also perceived themselves to perform better in their CED job responsibilities. Therefore, it was concluded that management of time is one key influence on managerial performance. Among demographic variables, only gender was positively associated with planning and goals and self-management dimensions of time management. However, a negative relationship was found between CED experience and the work environment dimension of time management. In regard to the seven CED job performance dimensions, only gender and highest education level were positively related with programming and coordination dimensions of CED job performance. The findings revealed general agreement among self (CED) superior (ARD) and subordinate (agent) appraisals of CED job performance. The coefficient of concordance between self, superior and subordinate rankings was very high (W=.84). The findings also indicated that CEDs tended to rate their performance slightiy more favorably than their superiors and subordinates. In light of this study, it is recommended that inservice training programs should be conducted to enhance CED managerial effectiveness. Specifically it is recommended that programs to enhance CED leadership and supervisory skills be initiated. Finally, it is also recommended that this type of study be replicated with other extension personnel to gain insight into varied aspects of time management and job performance.