Adaptation of traditional Aipan designs on apparels through block printing with natural Thickening agent
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2013
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MPUAT, Udaipur
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The present study was carried out to study the extent of participation of farm women in post-harvest practices of kinnow, to study the knowledge & adoption & to find out technological needs of farm women in post-harvest practices of kinnow. The study was conducted in Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan. Two panchayat samities namely Sri Ganganagar & Sri Karanpur were selected purposively .From each panchayat samiti two villages were selected on the basis of highest production of kinnow. The total sample consisted of 100 farm women selected from four villages of selected panchayat samities. Personal interview technique was used for collecting data from the respondents. Frequency, percentage, mean, per cent & mean weighted score were used for analysis of data.
The result of the study revealed that 65 per cent respondents belonged to age group of 30-45 years and 30 per cent were below 30 years of age. Majority of them belonged to reserve categories i.e. SC and OBC (92%), had joint families( 88%), agriculture as their main occupation (100%) and had land holding above 2 hectare (60%) . Nearly 70 per cent respondents studied till middle and primary level. The outcome of study divulges that majority of the respondents (100%) were participating in practice of plucking of kinnow independently or jointly with male members. However, in other activities like washing & cleaning, grading, storage, processing, marketing, and transportation participation of women was found to be less.
The respondents had poor knowledge in post-harvest practices of kinnow with over all mean per cent score of 28.69. Component-wise knowledge scores highlights that respondents had average knowledge in four components viz-plucking (56.5MPS), washing& cleaning (51.83MPS) , packaging (40.92MPS) & grading (35.00MPS). Poor knowledge of the respondents was found in remaining five components viz-marketing (23.16MPS),storage (21.5MPS), transportation(15.62MPS),waxing (6.9MPS) and processing(100MPS).
Similarly poor adoption of respondents was noticed with over all mean per cent score of 28.80. Component wise adoption in post –harvest practices highlighted that respondents had medium level of adoption in plucking (56.5MPS) & grading (35.0MPS). In other activities like washing & cleaning, waxing, packaging, storage, processing, marketing , transportation the respondents had low level of adoption (9-26MPS).
The over- all knowledge and adoption gap in post-harvest practices was high. Components wise wide knowledge gap existed in the components - storage (78.5%), marketing( 76.84%), grading (65%), packaging (59.08%). Similarly high adoption gap was observed in the components viz- waxing (100%), processing (100%) , transportation (91%) and marketing (88.86%) , storage (80.29%), packaging (77.28%), washing and cleaning (74%) and grading (65%).
On the basis of findings it can be concluded that wide technological gap was found in knowledge and adoption of post-harvest practices which can be minimized through education and training
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Adaptation of traditional Aipan
designs on apparels through block printing with natural Thickening agent
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Upadhyaya and Babel, 2013