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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 × Start date: 2022 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF SHGs MEMBERS ON FOOD SAFETY, NUTRITION & DIETARY PATTERN OF BANDA DISTRICT OF BUNDELKHAND: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
    (BANDA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY BANDA-210001, UTTAR PRADESH (INDIA), 2023-08-09) NISHA YADAV; B.K. Gupta
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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.
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    “Utilization and Effectiveness of ICT tools as agricultural information delivery system in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh”
    (Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda 20001, 2023-08-09) Shivendra Mishra; Pankaj Kumar Ojha
    Descriptive research design was used to study the extent of effectiveness and utilization pattern of ICT tools by farmers of Banda District of Uttar Pradesh, which was selected purposefully due to its nearness and jurisdiction of my university i.e., Banda University of Agriculture & Technology. Banda district consists of eight blocks, namely Baberu, Badokhar Khurd, Bisanda, Jaspura, Kamasin, Mahua, Naraini, and Tindwari, among which two blocks namely-Badhokhar Khurd and Tindwari were selected randomly. From each block, three villages were selected following a random sampling procedure Mawai Buzurg, Barokhar, Mahokhar from Badhokhar Khurd and Mungus, Mahui and Lama from Tindwari Block were selected for the present study. From each village a total of 20 farmers were randomly selected for the purpose of obtaining their response using structured interview schedule developed specifically for this study. Thus, a total of 120 farmers were selected as respondent’s form a total of six (6) villages were selected for the study. The data collected during the study was entered, organized and analyzed using the appropriate statistical tools using the available software packages. The detailed analysis of socioeconomic profile indicated that the majority of the farmers were adult aged (62.50%), educated up to middle level (34.00%), marginal and small level of land holding (63.64%), 10-20 years of experience in Farming (60.64%), 5-10 years of experience in usage of ICT tools (60.83%), low level of training undergone (5.00%), medium level (1 lakh to 2 lakh) of family annual income (64.16%), medium level of mass media exposure (66.66%), medium level of extension contact (73.34%), medium level of innovativeness (60.00%), medium level of scientific orientation (64.16%) and medium level of economic motivation (74.17%). The detailed analysis of the dependent variables indicated that a majority (67.50%) of respondents had a medium level of utilization of ICT tools and almost half (49.16%) of the respondents found ICT tools effective in providing various information related to agriculture and allied sectors. The variables viz., education, land holding, experience in usage of ICT tools, family annual Income, extension contact, social participation, innovativeness, economic motivation, mass media exposure, and scientific orientation were associated with extent of utilization and effectiveness of ICT tools. The other variables- age, training and farming experience were not associated with extent of utilization and effectiveness of ICT tools. The problems faced by the farmers on utilization of ICT tools were high cost of ICT gadgets like smart phones, computers, lack of practical exposure regarding technology shared and less number of service. The suggestions given by the farmers were reduce the costs of ICT tools, Provide subsidies on ICT gadgets, Provide infrastructure facilities, Training should be provided in usage of ICT tools, Provide educational facilities near village and Create awareness campaigns on benefits of ICT tools.
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    A study of Job Performance, Job Satisfaction and Job Competence of Extension Personnel in Bundelkhand Region
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2022-09-06) Gupta, Pawan Kumar; Mishra, Dheeraj
    Agricultural extension services and extension personnel must be able and willing to work with farmers to transform the agriculture sector positively and sustainably. But played an immense role was not only depends on number of extension workers rather on their performance, satisfaction and competence level towards job and other profile characteristics of extension personnel. The present study was conducted to assess the job performance, job satisfaction, and job competence level of extension personnel in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. The research was framed with Descriptive research design. The study was carried out in three district randomly selected from the Bundelkhand region of U.P. Due to busy schedule of extension personnel and availability of limited resources, total 114 respondents give to response. 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 extension personnel were male, middle aged, possessed M.sc. (Ag) level of education and having joint family. Majority of respondents had medium service experience, mass media exposure. The average salary per month was found as ₨. 33,035.00/- and most of the respondents not involved any secondary occupation. The study reveals that the perceived workload of extension personnel very high with medium achievement motivation while attitude towards job and organizational climate were found on favourable. Majority of extension personnel exhibited medium level work environment, interpersonal contact, job involvement and moderately favourable of attitude towards farmers. Research findings show that five determinants identified for measuring the job performance, job satisfaction and seven determinate identified for job competence. Results of statistical testing of SEM show that job competence directly had a positive and significant effect on job performance. The majority of extension personnel having medium level of job performance, job satisfaction and job competence. According to the findings, one of the most essential aspects for increasing job performance and job satisfaction is imparting training and developing knowledge/practices for improving job competence of extension personnel. It shows that there is a need to improve the working environment and organizational climate through inclusion of suitable and efficient HRD practices. This would certainly improve the effectiveness of extension and advisory services in the region.
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    A STUDY ON ACCESS AND USAGE OF ICT TOOLS BY THE FARMERS OF BANDA DISTRICT, UP
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001,Uttar Pradesh, India, 2022-09-15) Verma, Digvijay; Ojha, Pankaj Kumar
    An Survey research design was used in this study. The study was conducted in the Banda district, which was selected purposively. The main reason was that the Banda district comes under our university's jurisdiction, i.e., Banda University of Agriculture & Technology. Banda district consists of eight blocks, namely Baberu, Badokhar Khurd, Bisanda, Jaspura, Kamasin, Mahua, Naraini, and Tindwari, along which two blocks, Badhokhar Khurd and Tindwariare selected randomly. From each block, three villages were selected following a random sampling procedure. Acchrodh, Kanwara, and Gureh from Badhokhar Khurd; Paperenda, Peperhari, and Chilla from Tindwari Block were selected for the study. Thus, six (6) villages were selected for the study. From each village, 20 farmers were selected randomly for the present study. Hence, the total number of selected respondents was 120 farmers. Data were collected through a well-structured interview schedule which was developed keeping in view the objectives of the study. The detailed analysis of socio-economic profile indicated that the majority of the farmers were medium aged (60.84%), educated up to Intermediate level (70%), marginal and small level of land holding (65.83%), 11-33 years of experience in Farming (65.00%), 5-10 years of experience in usage of ICT tools (60.00%), medium level of possession of ICT tools (53.33%), low level (Up to 1.0 lakh) of annual income (78.33%), No training (82.50%), medium level of extension contact (80.83%), medium level of innovativeness (65.00%), medium level of economic orientation (71.67%), medium level of risk orientation (71.67%), and a medium level of scientific orientation (63.33%). The detailed analysis of the dependent variables indicated that a majority (61.67%) of respondents had a moderately favorable attitude with a medium level (63.33%) of utilization of ICT tools. The variables viz., education, land holding experience in farming, experience in usage of ICT tools, possession of ICT tools, annual Income, extension contact, innovativeness, economic orientation, risk orientation, and scientific orientation were associated with attitude and extent of utilization of ICT tools.The other variable, age, is not associated with attitude and extent of utilization of ICT tools. The problems faced by the farmers on utilization of ICT tools were, high cost of ICT gadgets like smart phones, computers etc., Poor economic condition of rural people, Poor connectivity of internet in villages, Lack of subsidies on ICT gadgets and inadequate internet facilities. The suggestions given by the farmers were reduce the costs of ICT tools, Provide subsidies on ICT gadgets, Provide infrastructure facilities, Providing of internet facilities, Provide educational facilities near village and Create awareness campaigns on benefits of ICT tools.