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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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    IMPACT OF RURAL AGRICULTURAL WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMME (RAWEP) ON ATTITUDE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS OF AGRICULTURE STUDENTS
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2018-08-01) PARISA AQDAS, KARIMI; Shivamurthy, M
    The study was conducted at University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru during 2017-18 by selecting a sample of 90 agriculture students by applying simple random sampling technique. The findings revealed that, after undergoing the RAWEP, 57.77 per cent of the students with sensitization and 51.11 per cent of the students without sensitization had favourable attitude towards RAWEP. With respect to overall knowledge gained, 53.33 per cent of the students with sensitization had high level of knowledge and 62.22 per cent of the students without sensitization had medium knowledge level. With respect to overall skills, 55.55 per cent of the students with sensitization and 51.11 per cent of the students without sensitization had medium level of skills. It was also found that, variables such as, achievement motivation, self- confidence and leadership qualities had positive and highly significant relationship with the attitude of students with sensitization and without sensitization. Further, it was revealed that, variables such as, achievement motivation, reading habits and information seeking behavior had positive and highly significant relationship with overall knowledge gained by students with sensitization and without sensitization. Besides, variables such as, self confidence and leadership qualities had positive and highly significant relationship with overall skills of students with sensitization and without sensitization. The major constraint expressed by the students was inadequate stipend and suggestions offered by the students were providing good accommodation facilities in the villages and enhancing stipend.
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    KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF BENEFICIARY FARMERS TOWARDS AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION CENTRE, UAS, BANGALORE
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2019-08-19) CHITRASHREE KANNUR; Nagaraj, K. H.
    A study on ‘Knowledge and Attitude of Beneficiary Farmers towards Agricultural Technology Information Centre, UAS, Bangalore’ was conducted during 2019. Ninety beneficiary farmers who visited ATIC during the last three years were selected purposively to elicit knowledge level and attitude of beneficiary farmers towards Agricultural Technology Information Centre (ATIC). Ex-post-facto research design was followed for the study was. The results revealed that nearly half (42.22 %) of the beneficiary farmers belonged to medium level of knowledge category while more than half (51.11 %) of the respondents had more favourable attitude towards ATIC. Further, a great majority of beneficiaries (91.11 %) possessed knowledge that ATIC provides consultancy services followed by 87.78 percent of them having correct knowledge with respect to areas of services provided by ATIC. Only few beneficiary farmers had correct knowledge with respect to agri portal service (16.67 %) and availability of feedback services (17.78 %). A great majority of the beneficiary farmers (95.60 %) opined that ATIC personnel attend the visitors properly but expressed that diagnostic services of ATIC were poor (72.2%). The results indicated that the variables such as scientific orientation and achievement motivation had significant association with knowledge and attitude of beneficiary farmers towards ATIC. More than 69.00 per cent of total variation in the knowledge was explained by the 16 selected independent variables put together. Beneficiary farmers faced constraints of lack of subsidy on inputs and non-acceptance of digital payment. Hence, ATIC should consider these constraints and efforts should be made to overcome these constraints.
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    A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE OF PADDY CULTIVATION PRACTICES AND ADOPTION BEHAVIOUR OF ANDHRA MIGRANT FARMERS IN RAICHUR DISTRICT
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 1999-08-30) SAIKRISHNA, N.; CHANDARGI, D. M.
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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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    A STUDY ON SERICULTURAL PRACTICES AND MARKETING PROBLEMS FACED BY THE SERICULTURISTS OF BELGALM DISTRICT
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, DHARWAD, 1997) S, MANJU; M R, ANSARI
    The study on sericultural practices and marketing problems faced by the sericulturists was conducted during 1996-97 involving 120 sericulturists from villages of Chikodi taluka in Belgaum district. The findings of the study were; 68.34 per cent of the respondents had medium level of knowledge about recommended sericultural practices. Majority of the sericulturists possess knowledge regarding mulberry variety (95.83%), soil (90%), pruning operation (90%), FYM application (87.5%), irrigation (87.50), nicotine effect (85%), spacing (75.83%), yield/100 DFLs (83.33%) and number of feedings per day (81.66%) The knowledge level was poor in pest and diseases management (20%), bed cleaning in shoot feeding method (16.66%) and bleaching powder for disinfection (10%). Cent per cent of the sericulturists adopted the age of setts for planting, application of FYM, irrigation, silk worm races, use of DFLs, chemicals for disinfection, feeding of silkworms, storage of leaves, feeding of tender leaves to chawki worms and bed cleaning. The extent of adoption was poor in application of chemical fertilizers, shoot feeding method, separate house for silkworm rearing and pest and diseases management. Sixty per cent of the sericulturists were literate. Nearly 90 per cent of the sericulturists had experience of more than 5 years in sericulture. Majority of them contact with sericultural demonstrator. Almost all the sericulturists possessed sericultural equipments; rearing stands, leaf cutting knives, gunny bags, rearing trays and mountages. Significant relationship was observed between knowledge and annual income. Recurring expenditure of the sericulturists during 1996 was Rs. 16942 and the net returns was Rs. 79336 from 604.15 kg of cocoon yield per hectare. Cent per cent of the sericulturists sold their cocoons through Government regulated markets (APMC'S). Inadequate power supply, water shortage and non availability of silk worm eggs were the major constraint in mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing faced by the sericulturists. Majority of the sericulturists also expressed distant market place, no good price and problem of transportation are the major constraints in marketing of cocoons and hence preferred South Karnataka markets in Ramanagarm , Bangalore, Srinivaspura.
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    SOYBEAN CULTIVATION BY FARMERS OF BELGAUM DISTRICT,AN ANALYTICAL STUDY
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, DHARWAD, 1997) P YALIGAR, SAYYADA SAHEB; J G, ANGADI
    The study was conducted during the year 1996 in Chikodi taluk of Belgaum district. Area under soy bean crop was used as the criterion for the selection of ranges, circles and villages for the study. Simple random sampling was employed for the selection of a sample of 144 farmers. Majority (69.45% and 67.37%) of the respondents belonged to medium level of knowledge and adoption of recommended practices of soy bean cultivation respectively. Cent per cent of the respondents adopted practices recommended varieties and spacing. Majority of the respondents had adopted sowing time (83.34%), application of FYM (72.92%) and seed rate (70.13%) as per recommendation. There was poor adoption in case of seed treatment (12.5%) and seed inoculation (43.5%). Eighty eight per cent of the respondents applied nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers. Whereas, only thirty seven per cent of the respondents applied potassic fertilizer. Majority of the respondents had adopted plant protection measures. Forty six per cent of the respondents had education upto primary and middle school. Majority (74.31%) of the respondents were cultivating soybean from the last three to five years. Majority (83.33% and 54.40%) of the respondents had medium level of economic motivation and scientific orientation. A significant relationship was observed between level of knowledge and personal characteristics of the respondents like education and land holding. Only education had significant relationship with adoption. The curve drawn on diffusion pattern of the crop interms of areawise spread appeared more or less 'S' shape. Whereas, the curve drawn on rate of adoption of soybean by farmers approached 'S' shape. Cost-benefit ratio at variable cost (Rs.3006.33) worked out to be 1:2.49. High cost of inputs, labours not available at sowing and harvesting time, disease problem, rhizobium, thiram and zinc sulphate are not locally available, price fluctuations in the market and in-adequate rains were the constraints faced by the soybean growers.
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    A STUDY ON VARIOUS ACTIVITIES ENGAGED AND INCOME CONTRIBUTION TO THE FAMILY BY LAMBANI WOMEN RAVINDRAKUMARI
    (1996) I M, RAVINDRAKUMARI; M R, ANSARI
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