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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: Extension Education × Author: DANGORE, ASHWINI. × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2019 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS OF AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL STUDENTS.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2019-07-02) DANGORE, ASHWINI.; Wakle, Dr. P. K.
    The present study on “Knowledge and Skills of Agriculture Technology School Students” was conducted in Akola and Amravati districts of Maharashtra state. The exploratory research design of social research was used. In all, 120 respondents were selected by random sampling method. The data were collected from students respondents by personal visit. The questionnaire was handed over personally to the respondents at the respective schools with detail instruction of how to fill the questionnaire. The data collected were recorded, categorized into quantitative classes and tabulation for working out relationship of independent variable with dependent variable. The findings of the present study revealed that, majority of the respondents (57.50%) belonged to male category, over one third of the respondents (40.83%) were other backward class category, majority of the respondents (65.84%) were belonged to the medium family education category, one third of the respondents (40.00%) were having their parents main occupation as agriculture, majority of the respondents (30.00%) belonged to semi-medium family land holding (2.01 to 4.00 ha), near about half of the students (48.33%) were belonged to medium family income group, majority of the respondents (45.00%) were having medium level of participation in extra-curricular activities, more than half of the respondents (67.50%) had rural family background, whereas, majority of the students (39.17%) had secured first class in academic performance. In case of knowledge, majority of the students (65.83%) were medium in subject knowledge, whereas, majority of the students (56.67%) had medium level of skills. The results of correlation revealed that, the characteristics of the respondent’s viz., family education, parental occupation, family land holding, family income, participation in extra-curricular activities, family background, academic performance had positive and significant relationship with their knowledge of different subjects of ATS and skills. In case of gender and caste of the students, it was found to be negatively non-significant with their knowledge of different subjects of ATS and skills. Important constraints faced by the majority of the students in receiving knowledge and skills were, non availability of Internet facilities (83.33%), followed by non availability of audio visual aids facilities (78.33%), non availability of nursery tools (75.00%), Lack of well equipped Laboratory (62.50%), Regular educational tour are not organized (50.83%), Library facility is not well equipped with furniture (50.00%), Lack of knowledge in use of different machineries (40.83%), non availability of books in sufficient quantity (37.50%), non guidance regarding starting of agribusiness (26.66%), sports facilities are insufficient (18.33%), Irregular classes (13.33%) and these were ranked as Ist, IInd, IIIrd, IVth Vth, Vlth, Vllth, Vlllth, lXth, Xth, Xlth, respectively.