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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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    EMPOWERMENT OF RURAL WOMEN IN VEGETABLE PRODUCTION FOR NUTRITIONAL SECURITY
    (2022) SACHAN, DIVYA; Sarmah, Juliana
    Rural women play an important role in both household and socio economic development of the society. Development of any nation will be impossible without developing this important and substantial segment of our society. Women perform a perceptible role in a variety of agricultural operations. They are actively involved in the cultivation of various crops, as well as vegetable production and kitchen gardening. Realizing the importance of rural women in vegetable production and knowing the extent of training needs of these rural women, the study entitled ―Empowerment of rural women in vegetable production for nutritional security‖ was planned with following objectives: To study the work profile of rural women in homestead gardening. To assess the existing knowledge and practice of rural women on vegetable production. To empower rural women in vegetable production through intervention and assess its impact. The present study was conducted in Jorhat district of Assam state. From Jorhat sub-division three blocks namely Kaliapani, Dhekorgorah and Chipahikhola were selected for the study. From each block three villages were selected and from each village 50 respondents were selected by simple random sampling method who were involved in vegetable production activities. Thus all total four hundred fifty (450) rural women from nine villages were the respondents for the present study. The study revealed that majority of the rural women were of middle age group (58.22%), married (91.55%), educated up to middle school level (31.56%) belonged to OBC/MOBC category (73.77%) had nuclear type of family (80.23 %), were having farming as their main occupation (38.89%), had agricultural land 1-3 bigha (38.00%) majority of them had pucca house (48.22%). More than 69 per cent had medium socio-economic status. All the respondents were using biocompost as their main source of fertilizer, had poor contact with extension personnel, lack of time due to over burden of household work was the main problem faced by the respondents in attending training programme. Majority (63.77%) of the respondents had medium level of participation in different activities of production of vegetable crops, had medium level of participation in decision-making (64.22%). Majority (76.00%) of the respondents had medium level of knowledge about vegetable production. The percentage of respondents belonging to the low category of knowledge was higher (21.55%) in the area of land preparation in comparison to other aspects of vegetable production. In case of practice, majority (64.89%) of the respondents had to moderate level of practice regarding vegetable production and 31.33 percent had poor level of practice in plant protection. Selection of respondents for the intervention programme was done from that block where percentage of respondents belonging to lower level of existing knowledge in vegetable production was found more. After intervention gain in knowledge score was 29.34. The impact of intervention programme was found to be highly significant (tvalue- 46.56**) in terms of gain in knowledge. Data regarding existing practices and adoption of practices shows an increase in adoption of practices score (11.57) after 30 days of intervention programme and there was also a highly significant difference between pre exposure practice score and post exposure practice score. Keywords: Empowerment, Rural women, vegetable production, Nutritional Security, knowledge and practice etc.