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Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola

Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola was established on 20th October, 1969 with its head-quarter at Akola. This Agricultural University was named after the illustrious son of Vidarbha Dr. Panjabrao (alias Bhausaheb) Deshmukh, who was the Minister for Agriculture,Govt. of India. The jurisdiction of this university is spread over the eleven districts of Vidarbha. According to the University Act 1983 (of the Government of Maharashtra), the University is entrusted with the responsibility of agricultural education, research and extension education alongwith breeder and foundation seed programme. The University has its main campus at Akola. The instructional programmes at main campus are spread over in 5 Colleges namely, College of Agriculture, College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, College of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Post Graduate Institute. At this campus 4 degree programmes namely B.Sc.(Agri.) B.Sc. (Hort.), B.Sc. (Forestry) and B.Tech. (Ag. Engg.) , two Master’s Degree Programmes viz. M.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Tech. (Agri.Engg.) and Doctoral Degree Programmes in the faculties of Agriculture and Agril. Engineering are offered. The University has its sub-campus at Nagpur with constituent College, College of Agriculture which offers B.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Sc.(Agri.) degree programmes. The Nagpur Campus is accomplished with a garden, surrounded by its natural beauty and a well established Zoo which attract the general public and visitors to the city. A separate botanic Garden is being maintained on 22 hectares with a green house for the benefit of research workers. In addition there are 2 affiliated grant-in-aid colleges and 14 private non-grant-in-aid colleges under the umbrella of this University A Central Research Station is situated at the main Campus which caters to the need of research projects undertaken by Crop Scientists of the principle crops of the region are Cotton, Sorghum, Oilseeds and Pulses.

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Subject: Agricultural Extension Education × Author: BOLLEBOINA SHILPA × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2018 × Type: Thesis ×
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    ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT ORIENTATION OF SELF HELP GROUP MEMBERS IN AKOLA DISTRICT.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2019-06-17) BOLLEBOINA SHILPA; Bhople, Dr. P.P.
    The present study was conducted in Akola, Balapur and Telhara talukas of Akola District. Findings of the present study revealed that, age of the self help group members indicate the equally distributed young and middle aged women (45.84% and 45.00%), respectively. Higher number of women respondents (34.17%) found educated up to higher secondary school (10th to 12th standard). Over more than half of the respondents (54.16%) had medium level of experience in SHGs (6-10yrs). It was found that nearly one third of respondents (36.66%) possess marginal land holding (0.01 to 1.00 ha). More than two-fifth of the respondents (44.17%) had agriculture as a main occupation. Nearly fifty per cent (45.83%) of the respondents had annual income in between Rs1,00,001/- to Rs1,50,000/-. Regarding training 37.50 per cent of the respondents had two day duration of training. Over more than half of the respondents (53.34%) had medium level of social participation. Higher proportion of the respondents (62.50%) had exposure to medium category of sources of information. Maximum number of respondents (66.66%) had medium level of economic motivation and (63.33%) of the respondents had medium level of scientific orientation. With respect to achievement motivation and management orientation, 75.00 per cent and 68.33 per cent of respondents found in high and medium level of achievement motivation and management orientation.The relational analysis with respect to achievement motivation, revealed that, annual income, training received, sources of information, economic motivation and scientific orientation had positive and highly significant with achievement motivation at 0.01% level of probability. While education, experience in self help groups, family occupation and social participation had positive and highly significant with their achievement motivation at 0.05% level of probability. In case of Management orientation, it was observed that training received, sources of information, economic motivation and scientific orientation had positively highly significant with management orientation at 0.01% level of probability. While education, experience in self help groups, annual income, social participation had positively highly significant with their management orientation at 0.05% level of probability. Variables such as age, family occupation and land holding had shown non significant relationship with respect to management orientation. The major constraints faced by the self help group members were, lack of credit availability at low rates of interest, its adequacy and timely access (76.66%), managing time to spare for SHG activities from everyday household activities and daily regular routine (71.66%), non cooperation of family members (60.00%), absence of members in group meetings (54.16%), lack of update informational support on the latest technologies and techniques (44.16%), irregular payment of monthly contribution and untimely repayment of loan by group members (42.50%).