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Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat

Assam Agricultural University is the first institution of its kind in the whole of North-Eastern Region of India. The main goal of this institution is to produce globally competitive human resources in farm sectorand to carry out research in both conventional and frontier areas for production optimization as well as to disseminate the generated technologies as public good for benefitting the food growers/produces and traders involved in the sector while emphasizing on sustainability, equity and overall food security at household level. Genesis of AAU - The embryo of the agricultural research in the state of Assam was formed as early as 1897 with the establishment of the Upper Shillong Experimental Farm (now in Meghalaya) just after about a decade of creation of the agricultural department in 1882. However, the seeds of agricultural research in today’s Assam were sown in the dawn of the twentieth century with the establishment of two Rice Experimental Stations, one at Karimganj in Barak valley in 1913 and the other at Titabor in Brahmaputra valley in 1923. Subsequent to these research stations, a number of research stations were established to conduct research on important crops, more specifically, jute, pulses, oilseeds etc. The Assam Agricultural University was established on April 1, 1969 under The Assam Agricultural University Act, 1968’ with the mandate of imparting farm education, conduct research in agriculture and allied sciences and to effectively disseminate technologies so generated. Before establishment of the University, there were altogether 17 research schemes/projects in the state under the Department of Agriculture. By July 1973, all the research projects and 10 experimental farms were transferred by the Government of Assam to the AAU which already inherited the College of Agriculture and its farm at Barbheta, Jorhat and College of Veterinary Sciences at Khanapara, Guwahati. Subsequently, College of Community Science at Jorhat (1969), College of Fisheries at Raha (1988), Biswanath College of Agriculture at Biswanath Chariali (1988) and Lakhimpur College of Veterinary Science at Joyhing, North Lakhimpur (1988) were established. Presently, the University has three more colleges under its jurisdiction, viz., Sarat Chandra Singha College of Agriculture, Chapar, College of Horticulture, Nalbari & College of Sericulture, Titabar. Similarly, few more regional research stations at Shillongani, Diphu, Gossaigaon, Lakhimpur; and commodity research stations at Kahikuchi, Buralikson, Tinsukia, Kharua, Burnihat and Mandira were added to generate location and crop specific agricultural production packages.

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Subject: Agricultural Process Engineering × Author: Bora, Mayuri × Start date: 2016 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    SOCIO ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF RURAL WOMEN THROUGH KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA
    (AAU, Jorhat, 2020-09) Bora, Mayuri; Deka, Manoshi Baruah
    The study on Socio economic empowerment of rural women through Krishi Vigyan Kendra was conducted with the objective (i) To find out the participation of women in different extension activities of KVKs, (ii) To study the extent of adoption of the technologies by the respondents and its impact, (iii) To identify the constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of technologies and (iv) To explore the factors affecting transfer of technology. The present study was conducted in Assam where twenty three Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) are functioning under administrative control of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat. Seventeen KVKs out of 23 were selected to find out the participation of women in different extension activities of KVKs. To study the extent of adoption of the technologies by the respondents and its impact, 300 rural women were randomly selected from the operational villages of six selected KVKs, where 150 respondents were participants of the selected vocational trainings and equal numbers were nonparticipants. For studying the factors affecting transfer of technology, thirty SMSs were selected. The findings revealed that during 2012-2017 the selected seventeen KVKs conducted 5152 numbers of training programmes where number of participant was 1,38,809. In trainings under „Home science‟ and „Agricultural extension‟ discipline, percentage of women participant was found to be highest with 93.99 and 54.52 respectively. However in subjects like Horticulture, Fisheries science, Soil science, Plant protection and Agronomy, women participation was less than 20.00 per cent. The seventeen KVKs conducted 379 numbers of vocational trainings during the study period covering a total of 10,940 participants of which 53.55 per cent were men and 46.45 per cent were women. It was found that in some vocational training, all participants were women where as in some other trainings there was no women participant at all. Similarly the KVK wise analysis of data reflected a large variation among the KVKs. Three vocational trainings namely „Food processing and preservation‟, „Mushroom cultivation‟ and „Vermicompost production‟ were selected to study the extent of adoption of the technologies by the respondents and its impact on socio economic empowerment of rural women. The findings reflected a clear picture that participation in the selected vocational trainings increased the level of knowledge of the respondents, increased inclination for adopting the technology by inculcating favourable attitude which led to adoption of technology. Highest percentage participant 7 respondents had medium level of knowledge on the technology they learnt in the vocational trainings and highest percentage had moderately favourable attitude. Regarding extent of adoption, highest percentage (52.00%) respondents fall in medium level of adoption, followed by low adoption with 36.00 per cent and high with 12.00 per cent. Participant respondents had more knowledge, better level of adoption than the nonparticipant respondents. Data on change in level of empowerment reflects that after the selected period, highest percentage i.e. 52.00 per cent were in high level of empowerment whereas „before‟ the highest percentage was in medium level of empowerment with 43.33 per cent. Significant difference in level of empowerment was observed among participant and nonparticipant respondents after the selected period. Data on constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of technologies reveals that highest percentage of respondents faced medium level of constraints. „Lack of financial resource for starting a new venture‟ was reported as a major constraint with mean score 1.33 by the rural women. Regarding facilitating factors affecting transfer of technology, 70.00 per cent of the respondents (SMSs) had collaborative programmes with state and national level NGOs followed by line departments and district administration. „Electricity problem at field level‟ was reported as a major constraint faced by the SMS while transferring technology. It is concluded that KVKs are playing vital role in transferring technology to the target groups including rural women which have significant impact on socioeconomic empowerment of rural women.