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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 SOCIAL CHANGE : THE PERCEPTION BY THE YOUTH AND SENIOR CITIZENS(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 09-09-99) PATIL, VIJAYA U.; GAONKAR, V.The present study was carried out in Haveri city during the year 1997-98 on 230 youth (20-30 years) and 70 senior citizens (above 60 years), to know the perception of different social changes like intercaste marriage, widow remarriage, age at marriage, preferred number of children and gainful employment of women. Pre-tested interview schedule was the tool used for data collection. To assess the opinion regarding intercaste marriage and widow remarriage, standardised scales developed by Katti et al (1988) and Rao (1974) respectively were used and regarding age at marriage, preferred number of children and gainful employment of women, self structured questionnaire was used. Results revealed that irrespective of gender compared to senior citizens, youth had favourable opinion towards intercaste marriage and widow remarriage. Majority of both the youth and senior citizens preferred 21-25 years age range for boys and 18-22 years for girls marriage. Majority of both male and female respondents of both the groups mentioned that child marriage increases population and reduces level of education. A larger proportion of both the youth and senior citizens prelerred two children. As far as gender preference among the children is considered, a large proportion of youth and senior citizens preferred both male and female children. A higher proportion of male than female preferred children irrespective ofgendci'. Majority oClhe respondents were aware of demerits of more number of children. Senior citizens and female youth had favourable opinion regarding gainful employment of women. Education and medical fields were the important areas preferred for women's work. Educated respondents had favourable perception towards intercaste marriage, widow remarriage, age at marriage and gainful employment of women. Educated female youth preferred less number of children. The senior citizens with better income favoured late marriage and gainful employment of women.ThesisItem Open Access PERSONALITY TRAITS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG RURAL AND URBAN ADOLESCENTS(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 09-09-99) MUNDARAGI, GAYATRAMMA; Khadi, Pushpa B.This study was conducted in Dharwad taluk in 1998. About 321 adolescents studying in highschools formed the sample. A self designed personal information inventory and multidimensional assessment of personality series (Teanger Form) developed by psycom, (1993) were used. Marks obtained in the midterm and annual examinations represented the academic achievement of the students. Student' t' test, multiple regression and factor aneilysis were used to analyse the data. The results revealed that Majority of adolescents were in the average category in 14 out of 20 personality traits while in boldness, individualism, leadership, maturity and selfcontrol they were found to be in large numbers in the high category and in only innovation a larger number of adolescents were found in the low level category. Rural adolescents were significantly higher in academic motivation, individualism and self-sufficiency while, urban adolescents were higher only in tension. Boys were significantly higher in mental health and sensitivit}' while girls were higher in boldness, competition, creativity, maturity and self-sufficiency. Association of personality traits was highly differential among, rural and urban, and among boys and girls. Adolescents had low academic achievement scores and fell in category of pass class. Rural adolescents were higher in academic achievement scores than urban adolescents. Boys and girls did not differ significantly. Out of 20 personalit)' traitsacademic moBvaHon, moraliW, mental health and general-ability were significant influencing factors for academic achievement of adolescents. There was no significant association between socio-demographic factors and personality traits of rural adolescents and urban girls while among urban boys self-sufficiency was associated negatively with guilt-proneness, economic status, mother's education, total SES while creativity was negatively associated with family type and size and positively with parent's occupation,mother's education farm assets. Mother's education was the strongest predictor of academic achievement among the various socio-demographic factors.ThesisItem Open Access IMPACT OF INTERVENTION ON MOTOR AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL INFANTS (9-15 MONTHS)(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 09-09-99) CHIKKAGOUDAR, PRATIBHA S.; KHADI, PUSHPA. B.An experimeatal study on impact of intervention on motor and mental development of rursd infants (9-15 months) was conducted during the year 1998 in Yattinagudda village of Dharwad district. The duration of intervention was for six months. A sample of 30 infants along with their mothers with 15 each in control and experimental group were selected from one village. The two groups (control and experiment) were matched for SES, mother's knowledge regarding child care and nutrition, mother's temperament, age and gender of infants and motor and mental development. The motor and mental development of infants was measured by administering Bayley scale of infants development. Maternal knowledge was assessed by interviewing mothers with maternal knowledge schedule and maternal temperament was measured using Dimension of temperament scale developed by Chada and Bhatnagar (1984). Home environment was assessed by observation and interview technique by employing Caldwell Home Inventory (1984) developed by Caldwell and Bradly. Socio-economic status was assessed using SES schedule. Intervention was provided to the experimental group once per month for a duration of six months. The intervention consisted of imparting knowledge to the mothers regarding child care and nutrition and home environment and providing stimulation to infants through play materials and toys. A package was developed for this purpose. The infants were post tested for motor and mental development. The mothers were assessed for knowledge regarding child care and nutrition and the home environment. Student's V test was applied to know whether the two groups were matched on socio-economic variables, infant's and maternal characteristics and home environment. Two way analysis of variance was applied to measure the impact of intervention. The results indicated that the intervention had a significant impact on motor and mental development of infants and also on maternal knowledge.ThesisItem Open Access SLOW LEARNERS: INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES TO ACCELERATE MATHEMATICS LEARNING(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 09-09-99) ANNAPURNA, T.; GAONKAR, V.A study on "slow learners; Instructional strategics to accelerate mathematics learning" was carried out in Dharwad city during the year 1996-98. Population for the study comprised o( first standard slow learning children of primary schools situated in Dharwad district of Karnataka state. Presentation convent and Yattinagudda school which were situated within the ten kilometers radius from Dharwad city and the class teachers extended willing co-operation were selected. Further, the students were identified as slow learners with the help of academic achievement, teacher's assessment, intelligence tests and achievement test. Finally 124 students were identified as slow learners and considered for the study. They were divided into six groups randomly. Among the six groups, five groups were treated as experimental groups and one group as control group. Control group slow Icarncis were allowed to sit in the class room and icarn through the traditional lecture method; while the experimental groups -Studied the same portion with the help of picture book (Ej), materials (E2), charts (E3). Peer tutoring (E4) and individualized instruction (E5). The experiment was conducted in four phases. In the first phase, a pre-test wasadministered for oil the groups. In the second phase, all the experiments groups received one hour instruction for every alternative day about three mounths using the different instructional strategies. At the end of the experimental period a post-test was administered for experimental and control group students. The same test was also administered for the normal students to compare their performance with experimental group students. In the fourth phase, after a lapse of three months the retention test was conducted to the same students. The analysis of variance and 't' test were used for analysing the data. The results reported that the experimental group slow learners showed significant improvement in mathematics when they were taught through the different instructional strategies.ThesisItem Open Access PROBLEMS COPING MECHANISMS AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES OF LAMBANI FEMALE HEADS OF THE FAMILY IN SHIRAHATTI TALUK DHARWAD DISTRICT(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK ,BANGALORE, 09-09-99) KINNAL, ANURADHA M.; SAROJA, K.This descriptive study was carried out in 6 randomly selected Lambani Tandas, with a sample of 80 respondents, selected in multistages and a purposive sub sample of 8, from the main sample. Data was collected by interview and case study methods. Majority of the respondents were in the age group of 20-45 years with 2-4 children and an average of 2 dependents. Majority of them belonged to broken nuclear family. Majority were illiterate, landless, agricultural labourers with an annual family income of Rs. 11,517, with no material and livestock possessions. Widowhood and desertion were the main reasons for heading the family. Collection of fire wood and embroidery were their main subsidiary activities. Food scarcity, water, lighting, fuel, alcoholism of their husband and lack of health care facilities were the main problems of respondents. Borrowing food, using rice given to children at school and purchase of food items on credit were the main mechanisms used for facing hunger. Different mechanisms used to confront their husband's alcoholism were found to be ineffective. Many respondents had problems of child rearing and care of aged/ailing. All depended on ANMS for health care needs. Problems in marketing were tackled with distress sales(fire wood) and borrowing money for wholesale purchase of vegetables. More than one third of women were harassed by neighbors and relatives. They suffered it in silence. In more than one third of households children were working as agricultural labourers. Being poor in material and livestock resources their only resource was their human labour. Hence, inputs and better management practices of both material and human resources are required to break their circle of poverty. An empirical model of their poverty circle with intervention entry points and type of interventions needed was developed from this study.ThesisItem Open Access PARENTING STYLES : EFFECT ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACADEMIC COMPETENCE OF PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 10-08-01) AMBIKA, T.; Khadi, PushpaThe present study " Parenting styles: Effect on Social Development and Academic Competence of pre-school children " was conducted in rural and urban areas of Dharwad taluka of Karnataka state during 1998-99. The sample was selected through multistage sampling method which comprised of 128 pre-school children (3+ to 5+ years) and their parents in which 64 each were accepted and rejected on the basis of socio-metric ratings. Data was collected through questionnaire for literates and by interviewing for illiterates. Results revealed that in both rural and urban areas parents of accepted children were significantly higher on authoritative and permissive pattern than parents of rejected children. Accepted children were significantly higher on co-operation, assertion and self-control than rejected children in both rural and urban areas. Rural accepted boys had significantly higher externalizing and internalizing problem behaviours than rural accepted girls, whereas no such difference was found among urban group. In both rural and urban areas accepted children were academically more competent than rejected children. Among rural group, father^ authoritative pattern significantly influenced the social skills whereas authoritarian pattern of fathers influenced selfcontrol and total social skills. However both authoritative and authoritarian pattern by fathers significantly and negatively influenced the internalizing problem behaviours. Among urban group, the externalizing problem behaviours were influenced significantly and positively by mothers' authoritative pattern while mother^ authoritarian pattern had a significant and negative influence. Father^ authoritative pattern had positive and significant influence on the academic competence of rural children whereas authoritarian pattern of fathers significantly and negatively influenced the academic competence of urban children. Rural parents parenting .styles were significantly influenced by socio economic factors like gender of the child, parent^ education, caste, father^ occupation and economic status of family whereas only parent^ age was the influencing factor in case of urban group. Both academic competence and social skills of rural children were significantly and negatively influenced by caste while they were significantly and positively influenced by mother^ occupation. However problem behaviours of urban children were significantly influenced by family size and parent^ ageThesisItem Open Access INFLUENCE OF HOME ENVIRONMENT AND PARENTAL CHARACTERISTICS ON PARENTING STYLES OF ACCEPTED AND REJECTED PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 10-08-01) KASE, KALAVATI L.; GAONKAR, V.The present Investigation was designed to know the influence of home environment and parental characteristics on parenting styles of accepted and rejected preschool children. The study v/as carried out in Dharwad taluk and In Dharwad city. The sample comprised of 128 preschool children and their parents. Data was collected through questionnaires from literate parents and interviewed personally by the investigator for illiterate parents. The results revealed that parents of rural accepted children were significantly higher on Inductive parenting than parents of rejected children. Accepted children had significantly better home environment than rejected children In both rural and urban areas. Parents of rural accepted children had significantly lower anxiety and better temperametn than parents of rejected children. Better home environment significantly promoted the inductive parenting style of rural accepted children. Anxiety of father and temperament of mother significantly influenced fathers parenting style by tending towards power assertive among rural rejected children. Anxiety of father signlfcantty influenced mothers parenting styles, tending towards power assertive among urban rejecetd children. Temperament of father significantly influenced fathers parenting styles by tending towards power assertive style among urban rejecetd children. Combined effect of sociodemographic factors, home environment and parental characteristics brought a significant variation of 73 per cent in fathers parenting styles among rural accepted children. While, it was 79 per cent In case of urban rejected children. However, the parenting style of father did not vary significantly in case of accepted children. Similarly, mothers parenting styles was not significantly influenced by the selected factors, either among accepted or rejected group.ThesisItem Open Access FAMILIAL INFLUENCE ON THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 10-08-01) MUDALINGAMMANAVAR, PUSHPA U.; GAONKAR, V.The main aim of the study was to know " Familial influence on the social development of preschool children The study was conducted during the year 1998-1999 in two randomly selected villages of Dharwad taluka (Narendra and Amminabhavi) and in Dharwad city of Karnataka state. Multistage sampling was used for the selection of the sample. The sample comprised of 128 preschool children (3+ to 5+ years) and their mothers. In which 64 children were accepted and 64 children were rejected according to socio-metric ratings. Both questionnaire (for literates) and interview schedule (for illiterates) methods were used for the data collection. Results revealed that in both rural and urban areas, accepted children had significantly higher social skills than rejected ones. Whereas rejected children had more of problem behaviours (internalizing) than accepted ones, in which boys and urban group showed more of problem behaviours. In both rural as well as urban areas parents of accepted children had significantly better marital relationships than parents of rejected ones, in that marital relationships of urban parents was significantly higher than rural parents. In both rural and urban areas accepted children had families with significantly better family functioning than rejected ones, in which family functioning of urban group was significantly better than rural group. Family functioning was the only factor which significantly and positively influenced the social skills of children where as it significantly and negatively influenced the problem behaviours of children in both rural as well as urban areas. The combined effect of socio-economic factors, marital relationships of parents and family functioning brought a significant variation in social skills of children i.e. 67 per cent (rural) and 81 per cent (urban). Whereas combined effect of all the factors taken together brought a significant variation in problem behaviours of children i.e. 64 per cent (rural) and 65 per cent (urban).ThesisItem Open Access SCHOOL DROP-OUTS AMONG RURAL SCHOOL GIRLS IN RON TALUK: PREVALENCE AND CAUSES(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 10-08-01) KUKANUR, HULIGVVA; SAROJA, K.