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Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur

The history of agricultural education in Kerala can be traced back to the year 1896 when a scheme was evolved in the erstwhile Travancore State to train a few young men in scientific agriculture at the Demonstration Farm, Karamana, Thiruvananthapuram, presently, the Cropping Systems Research Centre under Kerala Agricultural University. Agriculture was introduced as an optional subject in the middle school classes in the State in 1922 when an Agricultural Middle School was started at Aluva, Ernakulam District. The popularity and usefulness of this school led to the starting of similar institutions at Kottarakkara and Konni in 1928 and 1931 respectively. Agriculture was later introduced as an optional subject for Intermediate Course in 1953. In 1955, the erstwhile Government of Travancore-Cochin started the Agricultural College and Research Institute at Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram and the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Mannuthy, Thrissur for imparting higher education in agricultural and veterinary sciences, respectively. These institutions were brought under the direct administrative control of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Animal Husbandry, respectively. With the formation of Kerala State in 1956, these two colleges were affiliated to the University of Kerala. The post-graduate programmes leading to M.Sc. (Ag), M.V.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees were started in 1961, 1962 and 1965 respectively. On the recommendation of the Second National Education Commission (1964-66) headed by Dr. D.S. Kothari, the then Chairman of the University Grants Commission, one Agricultural University in each State was established. The State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) were established in India as an integral part of the National Agricultural Research System to give the much needed impetus to Agriculture Education and Research in the Country. As a result the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) was established on 24th February 1971 by virtue of the Act 33 of 1971 and started functioning on 1st February 1972. The Kerala Agricultural University is the 15th in the series of the SAUs. In accordance with the provisions of KAU Act of 1971, the Agricultural College and Research Institute at Vellayani, and the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, were brought under the Kerala Agricultural University. In addition, twenty one agricultural and animal husbandry research stations were also transferred to the KAU for taking up research and extension programmes on various crops, animals, birds, etc. During 2011, Kerala Agricultural University was trifurcated into Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU), Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) and Kerala Agricultural University (KAU). Now the University has seven colleges (four Agriculture, one Agricultural Engineering, one Forestry, one Co-operation Banking & Management), six RARSs, seven KVKs, 15 Research Stations and 16 Research and Extension Units under the faculties of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering and Forestry. In addition, one Academy on Climate Change Adaptation and one Institute of Agricultural Technology offering M.Sc. (Integrated) Climate Change Adaptation and Diploma in Agricultural Sciences respectively are also functioning in Kerala Agricultural University.

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Subject: Agricultural Extension × End date: 1986 × Start date: 1986 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Impact of farm broadcast on the adoption of agricultural innovations by the farmers of Nuwakot District of Nepal
    (Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, 1986) Narayan Prasad, Khanal; Tampi, A M
    This study titled " Impact of farm broadcast on the adoption of agricultural innovations by the Farmers of Nuwakot District of Nepal" was carried out with following objectives. (1) To assess the level of knowledge of the radio listening farmers in agriculture. (2) To study the attitude of the farmer listeners towards farm broadcasts. (3) To measure the extent of adoption on recommendations given through farm broadcasts. (4) To analyse the listening behaviour of the farmers with respect to personal characteristics. The selected characteristics were age, education, farm size, scientific orientation, innovation proneness, social participation, radio ownership, radio accessibility and listening behaviour.
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    Role of Farm Women in the decision making process of a farming community in Trivandrum District
    (Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, 1986) Seema, B; KAU; Muraleedhara Prasad, R
    A study was undertaken among the farm women of Nadar community in Neyyattinkara taluk of Trivandrum district in order to find the role played by them in decision making related to their farm and home. The study was conducted with the following objectives: 1. To identify the areas of decision making by the farm women related to their socioeconomic life. 2. To study the role perception and role performance of the farm women in decision making. 3. To study the extent of participation of farm women in implementing the decisions related to their socio-economic life. 4. To correlate the selected characteristics of farm women and their role perception role performance and extent of participation in implementing the decisions. The study revealed that more than 50 per cent of the respondents perceived six areas viz, decisions regarding purchase and sale of land, storage and marketing of produce, care and management of animals, family budget and children's education as very important whereas, decisions regarding plant protection and implements to be used were perceived as not important. Among the 14 areas studied, joint decisions were made in purchase and sale of land, care and management of animals and children's education. Independent decisions were made in storage and marketing of produce. Majority of the respondents participated in implementing the decisions, in storage marketing of produce and care and management of animals. Occupation was the only variable found to have significant relation with role perception.Attitude towards farming and knowledge in fanning were found to be negatively, but significantly related with joint role performance. Significant positive relation was established between contact with extension agency and independent role performances Attitude of women towards their status and extent of participation in implementing the decisions were positively related.
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    Communication behaviour of tribal farmers - a system analysis
    (Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, 1986) Subramoniam, K; KAU; Balakrishna Pillai, G
    The research was conducted in Nedumangad taluk of Trivandrum District to study the communication behaviour of tribal farmers Data were collected from 110 'Kanikkars. from six villages of the taluk based on the method of probability proportionate to size. Farmers were interviewed individually, using the schedule developed for the purpose. Group discussions and participant observations were also made use of for the investigation The study revealed the following; Majority of the tribal farmers had only low level of communication behaviour. The information input of tribal farmers was relatively high. They received information from mass media such as the radio and newspaper and personal localite sources -such as neighbours and relatives. Majority of the farmers communicated information to other farmers of the settlement while personal talk during home visit. Feed back to the mass media was nil. Feed back-to cosmopolite sources was relatively less, while that to personal localite sources was comparatively high. Highest feed back was about the information regarding the sanction of subsidies etc. ’Neighbours and relatives' were the most important sources of information to the tribal farmers followed by radio and newspaper. Tribal leader and Tribal Extension Worker were the next' sources in the order of preference. Age was found to be negatively correlated with communication behaviour. Education, . innovation proneness, attitude towards block extension agency, social participation, information seeking behaviour and cosmopoliteness were positively associated with communication behaviour, whereas fatalism had no correlation. Step wise regression analysis revealed that information seeking behaviour, attitude towards Block extension agency, education and social participation explained 83.00 per cent variation in communication behaviour, while all the independent variables together contributed only to 84.22 per cent of change in communication behaviour. Information seeking behaviour emerged as the most important variable in predicting the communication behaviour by contributing to 74.00 per cent of the variation
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    Correlates of perception of the field satff and farmers about the effectiveness of soil conservation practices
    (Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, 1986) Sundaram, A; KAU; Balakrishna, Pillai G
    The research was conducted is Trivandrum district of Kerala State to study the perception of farmers and field staff about the effectiveness of sell conservation practice. The method of stratified random sampling were followed 100 farmers from the soil conservation schme areas. All the field staff of the soil conservation units of Trivandrum district comprised of only 37 so that the entire population was selected as the sample for studying the field Staff, the perception of the farmers as well as the field staff about the effectiveness of the soil conservation practice was measured using the perception scale developed for the purpose. TS.o data were collected by Interviewing the respondents using fee interview schedule developed and pre—tested.