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Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda

Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda has been established as a full-fledged State University, having unique honour of being the “First Agricultural University of Bundelkhand Region”. The University was notified vide Government Order No. 301/79-V-1-10-1 (Ka) 27-2009 Lucknow and established on 2nd March 2010 under Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University Act (Sanshodhan) 1958 Gazette-Adhiniyam 2010. Initially it was named as “Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda”, which was changed as “Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda” vide Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University Act (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2014, No. 1528(2)/LXXIX-V-1-14-1(Ka)-13-2014 dated 4th December 2014. The University has been established for the development of the agriculture and allied sectors in the Uttar Pradesh on the whole and Bundelkhand region in particular. It is committed to serve the Bundelkhand region with trinity concept, i.e. complete integration of teaching, research and extension for the development of agriculture and allied sectors in order to ensure food security and enhance socio-economic status of inhabitants. State Government of Uttar Pradesh has assigned the University with the responsibilities of (a) human resource generation and development, (b) generation and perfection of technologies, and (c) their dissemination to the farmers, orchardists and dairy farmers in the Chitrakoot Dham and Jhansi divisions. The Chirtrkoot Dham Division consists of four districts, namely Banda, Chitrakoot (Karvi), Mahoba and Hamirpur whereas Jhansi Division consists of Jhansi, Lalitpur and Jalaun (Orai) districts.

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Subject: Agricultural Extension × Author: MANI PRAKASH SHUKLA × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2023 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE, AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE OF AGRICULTURAL GRADUATES TOWARDS NATURAL FARMING IN UTTAR PRADESH
    (BANDA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY BANDA-210001, UTTAR PRADESH(INDIA), 2023-08-19) MANI PRAKASH SHUKLA; Bhanu P. Mishra
    Natural farming is a nature-based, eco-friendly, and chemical-free farming system, which is nowadays becoming more popular because of the less expenses in production as well as helps in the improvement of soil and human health. The present research was conducted to know the Knowledge, Awareness, and Attitude of Agricultural Graduates toward Natural Farming in Uttar Pradesh. In the present study, the descriptive research design was used and conducted in four SAUs of Uttar Pradesh which is selected purposively. A total of 140 respondents were selected through a random sampling method. A semi-structured interview schedule was administered for data collection through a personal interview method. The data were analyzed by using appropriate statistical methods. It had been found that most of the agriculture graduates were middle-aged, of general caste belonging to rural areas, male, their schooling was done in Hindi medium and academic performance between 6.91 to 8.0 OCPA, majority of the respondents belonged to joint family, their father was a marginal farmer, and their primary family occupation is agriculture, with annual income recorded as less than Rs. 300000/-. Their parent's education was up to graduation level. He had not taken any training related to natural farming and their main sources of information were mobile phones, the internet, and social media. They had a middle level of library exposure, achievement motivation and scientific orientation. The independent variables like age, education, academic performance, medium of schooling, family type, family size, habitation pattern, annual income, number of trainings, sources of information, and scientific orientation were associated highly significantly with awareness, knowledge, and attitude of agriculture graduates towards natural farming. Findings related to the level of knowledge, awareness, and attitude showed that most of the agriculture graduates had a medium level of awareness and knowledge about natural farming, and their Attitude was favorable. It had been suggested by the respondents that maintaining the farm under natural farming is a difficult task because of the seepage of chemicals from the neighboring farm fields. Further, it can be suggested that there is wide scope to increase the level of knowledge among agriculture graduates by organizing a number of training and awareness programmes for them and developing and implementing specific extension strategies for making them more aware and experienced.