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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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    A Study on Impact of MGNREGS in Banda District of Uttar Pradesh
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2021-10-10) KUMAR, MANOJ; Mishra, Bhanu Prakash
    The study was carried out to study the impact of MGNREGS in Banda District of Bundelkhand Region, Uttar Pradesh. The relevant data was collected during 2020-21 through personal interview method using structured research schedule. Simple random sampling technique was adopted for the study with Ex-post Facto research design. District Banda falls under Bundelkhand agro climatic zone of Uttar Pradesh. From Badokhar Khurd block, five villages were selected randomly namely Mawai bujurg, Kanwara, Lama, Mahokhar and Luktara and 20 respondents were randomly, a total of 100 respondents were selected for the study. The study reveals that majority of respondents were belonged to middle age group within the range of 37-56 years and were having low level of education. It was found that maximum of respondent have medium to large family size and have 7-9 years of experience in working under MGNREGS with him medium annual income. It was found that majority of MGNREGS were male (78%) with low social participation and medium source of information. It was observed that majority (76%) of respondents own the mobile phone and (18%) of have television and none of them have computer and radio, etc. it was found that majority of respondents have high economic motivation with medium level of aspiration and achievement motivation.It was found that majority of respondents have high (47%) to medium knowledge level (39%). It was revealed that majority of respondents belonged to more direct change and there was a significant difference in the employment generation and number of persons employed in their family of the respondents after the implementation of MGNREGS. The study revealed that there is a significance difference in the daily working hours, daily wage rates, income generation and community asset creation of selected respondents after MGNREGS. It was also observed that migration was decreased and wages upon migration increased due to MGNREGS implementation. The study assessed that there was a positive and highly significant relationship between age, education, experience and number of years benefited, annual income, mass media assets, socio-political participation, sources of information, economic motivation, achievement motivation and their knowledge level. Regression analysis indicated that all the twelve variables put together explained 63 per cent of variance in the extent of knowledge of respondents. Also, the study assessed that there was a positive and significant relationship between age, education, experience and number of years benefited, annual income, mass media assets, socio politico participation, sources of information, level of aspiration and achievement motivation with direct changes. Regression analysis indicated that all the twelve variables put together explained 60.1 per cent of variance in the direct changes experienced by respondents. The study reveal that problem perceived by the respondents was non-payment of unemployment allowance, Non-payment of 10% extra wages for outsides the 5 KM. radius, nonprovision of crèche facility and payment of same wages for all kind of works.
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    A Study on Training Need Assessment of Vegetable Growers in Bundelkhand Region, Uttar Pradesh
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2021-10-30) Yadav, Govind; Gupta, B.K.
    The present study was conducted to assess the training needs of vegetable growers. The research was framed with Ex-post facto design. The study was carried out in 8 villages randomly selected from two blocks of Banda district. A sample of 120 farmers was randomly selected from selected villages. A semi structured interview schedule was administrated for data collection through personal interview method. Further, the data was analyzed by using appropriate statistical methods. It was observed that the majority of vegetable growers were male, middle aged, majority of vegetable growers and having joint and large family. Majority of respondents had kaccha house, marginal land holdings and farming as a sole profession. The average annual income of majority of vegetable growers was recorded up to Rs. 60,000/. The study reveals that the social participation of vegetable growers very low, while extension contact was found as medium level. Majority of vegetable growers exhibited medium level of mass media exposures and scientific orientation. Study shows that majority of the vegetable growers had not attended any type of training programme. Training needs of majority of the vegetable growers were reported under medium level. Trainings on plant protection, fertilizer management, harvesting and market management, nursery raising & field management were identified and placed in higher preferences by the vegetable growers. Age and farming experiences were found negative and significantly correlated with training needs, while education, land holdings, social participation, extension contact, mass media exposures and scientific orientation were positive and significantly correlated with training need of farmers. The majority of constraints faced by respondents economics constraints (87.70%), extension constraints (74.16%), supply constraints (62.50%), marketing constraints (52.16%) and technical constraints (35.93%). The majority of the respondents favoured non-institutional training. The vegetable growers suggested that training programmes should be conducted during the months of September and October. Duration of 2-3 days was found appropriate for such training programmes. The findings of the study may act as a guideline document for redesigning the effective training programmes on vegetable production technology.
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    Impact of cluster front line demonstrations on adoption of sesame package of practices by the farmers of Banda district of Uttar Pradesh
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2021-10-11) Yadav, Rishabh; Ojha, Pankaj Kumar
    The study was carried out to assess the impact of cluster front line demonstrations on adoption of sesame package of practices by the farmers of Banda district of Uttar Pradesh. Data was collected during 2021-22 through personal interview method using semi structured research schedule. Simple random sampling technique was adopted for the study with Ex-post Facto research design. District Banda falls under Bundelkhand agro climatic zone of Uttar Pradesh. A list of the 178 beneficiaries was obtained from KVK, Banda. Out of theses 178 beneficiaries, 50 respondents were selected randomly with the help of random number table. Then, the villages of 50 beneficiaries were identified and equal numbers of non-beneficiary respondents were selected from each identified village as control group. Total 100 respondents (50 beneficiaries & 50 non-beneficiaries) were selected for the study. The study reveals that majority of respondents were belonged to middle age group within the range of 36-58 years and were having low level of education. It was observed that maximum respondents had semimedium and marginal type of land holdings with low to medium level of annual family income. It was reported from the study that majority of the respondents had joint family type and mixed and kachcha type of households. Most of the respondents were belonged to OBC category and engaged in farming as sole occupation type. It was found in the study that majority of respondents were having low level of social participation with an average extension participation with small and medium family size. The study assessed that there is no similarity between the level of knowledge of beneficiary and non-beneficiary farmers regarding sesame production technology. It is also clear in the study that there is a significant difference in the adoption of sesame production technology of beneficiary and non-beneficiary. So, from the study we concluded that Beneficiary Respondents are sounder in terms of Socio Economic, Knowledge Level and Sesame Production Technologies as compared to Non-Beneficiary Respondents. So, the results of the study will help the extension agencies to develop suitable modules for the farmers for increasing the sesame production and improving the living standards.
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    An Analysis of safe use of Pesticides by Vegetable Growers of Banda district of Uttar Pradesh
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2021-10-23) Pathak, Deepak Kumar; Mishra, Dheeraj
    Pesticide poisoning has become a rising concern around the world. Farmers' susceptibility to pesticide poisoning is increasing due to a lack of understanding about safe and proper pesticide usage. The present study was conducted to assess the knowledge, Exposure, Pesticides of vegetable farmers about safe use of pesticides in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh. The research was framed with Ex-post facto design. The study was carried out in 6 villages randomly selected from two blocks of Banda district where vegetable was the major crop. A sample of 90 vegetable growers was randomly selected from selected villages. A semi structured interview schedule was administrated for data collection through personal interview method. Further, the data was analyzed by using appropriate statistical methods. It was observed that the majority of vegetable growers were male, middle aged, possessed medium level of education and having nuclear and large family. Majority of respondents had kaccha house, marginal land holdings and farming as a sole profession. The average annual income of majority of vegetable growers was recorded upto Rs. 50,000/-. The study reveals that the social participation of vegetable growers very low, while extension contact was found on an average level. Majority of vegetable growers exhibited medium level of mass media exposures. Research findings show that the majority of vegetable farmers in Banda district having medium level of knowledge about use of pesticides in vegetable cultivation have (73.33%) vegetable growers, followed by low-level knowledge (14.44%) vegetable growers and high-level knowledge (12.22%) vegetable growers. In this study find out about pesticides exposure major routes was nose, pesticides residual was found in plants, pesticides stored in the house, pesticides exposure symptoms mainly skin irritation, headache, container disposed in the soil through burying and through burning container. In the sense of practices about safe use of pesticides respondents fined secure with application and calibration of equipments about insect & pest control have medium practices, respondents plant protection practices use safely, majority of respondents use medium level of PPE kit at the time of application of pesticides. Age, education, mass media and farming experience in vegetable cultivation had positive and highly significant correlation with knowledge and practices and negatively significant with exposure of safe use of pesticide of vegetable growers while, Landholding, social participation and extension contact had positive and highly significant correlation with knowledge and practices and negatively non-significant with exposure of safe use of pesticide of vegetable growers. Appropriate safety precautions must be taken to avoid pesticide-related harm. Due to the low level of literacy in the area, farmers rely on local input dealers and neighbouring farmers for advice, as they are unaware of potential risks. Variables such as education level, land holding, annual income, extension contact and social participation reflected a substantial impact on farmers' pesticide safety understanding.
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    A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE & PERCEPTION OF FARMERS ON ORGANIC FARMING IN BUNDELKHAND REGION OF UTTAR PRADESH
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2021-11-10) Tripathi, Somdutt; Gupta, B.K.
    Organic farming is a type of farming that avoids or limits the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators, and livestock feed additives. Adapting organic farming without jeopardizing agricultural production would seem to be the logical solution. Fertilizers, insecticides, growth regulators, and livestock feed additives are all avoided or limited in organic farming. Organic farming is practiced by many farmers in the state. When a farmer decides to go organic, he or she is faced with a slew of issues about how to make organic farming profitable. Despite the rising prospects in the field of organic farming, little research has been done on the, knowledge, and attitudes of organic farming practiceners. It is observed that the independent variables age, education, family type, landholding, annual income, social participation, farming experience, extension contact, and scientific orientation had positive and significant relationship with the knowledge of farmers about organic farming. It also observed that the independent variables education, land holding, occupation, social participation, extension contact and scientific orientation had positive and significant relationship with the attitude of farmers about organic farming. The independent variables age, education, landholding, annual income, social participation, farming experience, and scientific orientation had positive and significant relationship with the perception. Findings related to level of knowledge, level of attitude and level of perception shows that organic farming practitioners had medium level of knowledge and perception they had favorable attitude towards organic farming. It can be said that there is wide scope to increase the level of knowledge among the organic farming followers by developing and implementing specific extension strategy. (B.Organic farming is a type of farming that avoids or limits the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators, and livestock feed additives. Adapting organic farming without jeopardizing agricultural production would seem to be the logical solution. Fertilizers, insecticides, growth regulators, and livestock feed additives are all avoided or limited in organic farming. Organic farming is practiced by many farmers in the state. When a farmer decides to go organic, he or she is faced with a slew of issues about how to make organic farming profitable. Despite the rising prospects in the field of organic farming, little research has been done on the, knowledge, and attitudes of organic farming practiceners. It is observed that the independent variables age, education, family type, landholding, annual income, social participation, farming experience, extension contact, and scientific orientation had positive and significant relationship with the knowledge of farmers about organic farming. It also observed that the independent variables education, land holding, occupation, social participation, extension contact and scientific orientation had positive and significant relationship with the attitude of farmers about organic farming. The independent variables age, education, landholding, annual income, social participation, farming experience, and scientific orientation had positive and significant relationship with the perception. Findings related to level of knowledge, level of attitude and level of perception shows that organic farming practitioners had medium level of knowledge and perception they had favorable attitude towards organic farming. It can be said that there is wide scope to increase the level of knowledge among the organic farming followers by developing and implementing specific extension strategy.
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    ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR OF SEED PRODUCERS IN BUNDELKHAND REGION OF UTTAR PRADESH
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda Uttar Pradesh, 2020-11-10) Singh Raghuvanshi, Saurabh; P.Mishra, Bhanu
    A farmer does not become an entrepreneur only by adopting a new agricultural technology but he becomes an entrepreneur only when he comes to be an operator of a farm business (De, 1986). The entrepreneur is perceived as an individual with certain characteristics helpful in conceiving, initiating, establishing and managing an enterprise. The current study was carried out during 2019-2020 entitled "Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Seed producers in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh" has been initiated focus on entrepreneurial behaviour of sced producers. The study was conducted in Banda and Hamirpur district which were purposively selected considering the approachability, convenience and availability of KVK of BUAT, Banda where seed hub project is running. The total sample size of 80 respondents were selected on the basis of multistage proportionate random sampling who were the beneficiaries of state seed cooperation and pulse seed hub project of BUAT from both the selected district. From the salient findings of the study it can be concluded that majority of the respondent were found the medium level of entrepreneurial behaviour due to their medium socio-economic profile. Further, it was observed that the risk bearing ability leadership ability, innovativeness, selfconfidence and decision making ability were also found medium. Among the thirteen independent variables, seven variables viz., education, annual income, occupation, land holding, material possession, training received, economic motivation, market orientation showed positive and significant correlation with entrepreneurial behaviour. The major hurdle observed in seed production business were related to availability of inputs, farm machinery, awareness related to market, finance etc., annapratha, occurrence of insectpest and disease, as well as erratic weather conditions etc. For the increment in the level of entrepreneurial behaviour, it is required to provide more subsidies on the cost of inputs such as fertilizer, timely supply of good quality of seed by the sponsoring organizations along with capacity building and hand holding support to seed producers on recent technologies of seed production. To overcome with the different constraints of seed production the best remunerative price of seed must be ensured. Further, the opportunity for exposure visit as well as availability of mini processing plants on cluster basis can attract more young farmers to opt seed production as amiable enterprise.
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    Training Need Assessment of Pulse Growers in Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2020-10-26) Ranjan Patel, Rajeev; Mishra, Dheeraj
    Region of Uttar Pradesh The present study was conducted to assess the training needs of pulse growers. The research was framed with Ex-post facto design. The study was carried out in 10 villages randomly selected from two blocks of Banda district where pulse was the major crop. A sample of 120 farmers was randomly selected from selected villages. A semi structured interview schedule was administered for data collection through a personal interview method. Further, the data was analyzed by using appropriate statistical methods. It was observed that the majority of pulse growers were male, middle aged, possessed medium level of education and having joint and large family. Majority of respondents had kaccha house, small land holdings and farming as a sole profession. The average annual income of majority of pulse growers was recorded between Rs. 60,001/- to Rs. 1,50,000/-. The study reveals that the social participation of pulse growers is very low, while extension contact was found as medium level. Majority of pulse growers exhibited medium level of mass media exposures and scientific orientation. Study shows that majority of the pulse growers had not attended any type of training programme. Training needs of the majority of the pulse growers were reported under medium level. Training on plant protection, post-harvest management, marketing management, nutrient management, seed & sowing method and harvesting were identified and placed in higher preferences by the pulse growers. Age and farming experiences were found negative and significantly correlated with training needs, while education, land holdings, material possession, social participation, extension contact, mass media exposures and scientific orientation were positive and significantly correlated with training need of farmers. The majority of the respondents favoured non-institutional training. The pulse growers suggested that training programmes should be conducted during the months of September and October. Duration of 2-3 days was found appropriate for such training programmes. The findings of the study may act as a guideline document for redesigning the effective training programmes on pulse production technology.
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    Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Self Help Group Members under National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) in Banda District of Uttar Pradesh
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2020-11-24) Singh, Shakti; P. Mishra, Bhanu
    The present study was conducted entitled ‘Entrepreneurial Behaviour of the Self-Help Group Members under National Rural Livelihood Mission’. The study was conducted in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh. There are 08 Community Development Blocks in Banda district; out of them, one CD Block Badhokhar Khurd was selected randomly. In Badhokhar Khurd block there is a total of 56 Gram Panchayats, out of these 6 Gram Panchayats were selected randomly for the present study where the SHGs under NRLM were functioning. The Gram Panchayat wise details of the SHGs along with the list of SHG members were prepared. Altogether 120 respondents were selected for the present study by using multi-stage proportionate random sampling. The data was collected through the personal interview by using a structured interview schedule by the researcher himself. The collected data were processed and analyzed by applying appropriate statistical tools. It was observed that the majority of the respondents belonged to the middle age group having education up to high school level. The majority of the respondents belongs nuclear family system with small family size. The study also revealed that agriculture with the business was found as a major occupation by the majority of the respondents with a medium level of annual family income. The variables viz. extension contact, social participation, marketing orientation and economic motivation were scored as the medium. After summing up the scores of all the seven components of the entrepreneur behaviour it was found in the medium level category. The coefficient of correlation reflects that education, annual income, occupation, social participation, mass media use, extension contact, economic motivation and market orientation had a positive and significant relationship with entrepreneurial behaviour of respondents. The lack of knowledge about the market trend of & limited marketing of SHG products, lack of awareness on marketing strategies and low price of SHG products were found as major constraints. To attain the objectives of the mission it is suggested that required more awareness about the market trend should, need of a different platform for marketing of SHG products, providing timely the revolving fund from NRLM and easy loan procedure etc different aspects to make the group business sustainable.
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    Training Need Assessment of Dairy Farmers of Banda District in Bundelkhand Region
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2020-10-20) Kumar Maurya, Rishabh; Kr. Ojha, Pankaj
    The study was carried out to identify the training needs of dairy farmers in Banda District of Uttar Pradesh. Data was collected during 2019-2020 through personal interview method using semi structured schedule. Multi stage random sampling technique was adopted for the study with the Ex-Post Facto research design. District Banda falls under Bundelkhand agro climatic zone of Uttar Pradesh. From Badokhar Khurd & Tindwari blocks, four villages were selected randomly from each block and 20 Dairy farmers were selected from each village making the total sample size of 160 respondents. The study reveals that majority of respondents were from middle age group within the range of 34-54 years and were having low level education. It was observed that maximum respondents had marginal land holding type with medium level of annual income i.e. 1 lakh to 3. It was reported from the study that majority of the respondents had joint and large family with Kaccha housing pattern. Most of the respondents were involved in dairy & wage earning with medium level of herd size (3-5). It is reported from the study that majority of the respondents shown medium extent of mass media utilization & low level of social participation. It was also observed that majority of the respondents pointed health care as their first preference for their training. The computed correlation coefficient of age and caste was negatively significant. While education, land holding, occupation, annual income, social participation, training undergone and mass media utilization was positively significant with training need of dairy Farmers. Respondents perceived that distant location of veterinary health centers' was the most important constraints followed by lack of knowledge about balanced feeding. So from the study we conclude that dairy farmers of Banda district had poor resources & knowledge about scientific practices regarding health and feeding. So, the results of the study will help the extension agencies to develop suitable training modules for the dairy farmers for increasing the livestock productivity and improving the living standards of the farmers.