A STUDY ON EFFECTIVENESS OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY TRAINING PROGRAMMES AMONG WOMEN SELF HELP GROUPS OF CHITTOOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

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2017-01
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SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA
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ABSTRACT: Livestock farming is one of the important activities undertaken by Women Self Help Groups (WSHGs). The present study was undertaken in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh to find out the effectiveness of Animal Husbandry training programmes among WSHGs. An ex-post facto research design was followed in the present study Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh was purposively selected for carrying out the study. Since animal husbandry is a major subsidiary occupation in the district and Sri Venkateswara veterinary university had organized many training programmes among the members of women self help group to improve the knowledge as well as skills in various aspects of animal husbandry practices in turn improve their livelihoods. Two mandals under trained category and two mandals under untrained category were selected purposively, while three villages from each mandal from both trained and untrained category were selected through random sampling method and from each village 10 respondents were selected randomly, thus to from a sample size of 120 comprising 60 respondents each from trained group and untrained group. The finding depicted that, in both trained and untrained groups, majority 48.34% and 46.66% were middle aged, while most of the respondents (30% and 33.34%) were illiterates under trained and untrained groups respectively. Majority (70.01% and 25.00%) of the respondents were positive high level of socio-economic status in trained and untrained group, respectively. Majority (23.33% and 66.67%) respondents were medium level of mass media exposure in trained and untrained groups respectively. Majority (55% and 43.33% ) of the respondents had medium extension contact under trained and untrained group respectively. Majority (68.33% and 51.67%) of the respondents were medium level of achievement motivation in trained and untrained group, respectively. Majority (53.33% and 51.67%) of the respondents had medium level of knowledge under trained and untrained group respectively. Majority (60% and 48.34%) of the respondents had medium level of adoption under trained and untrained groups respectively. Respondents from trained group possessed significantly higher levels of knowledge and adoption than the respondents from untrained group. The independent variables viz., education, socio-economic status, mass media exposure, extension contact and achievement motivation had positive and significant correlation with dependent variables viz., knowledge and adoption in both the groups. Age was positive and non-significantly correlated with knowledge in trained group and negative and non-significantly correlated with knowledge in untrained group whereas negative and non significantly correlated with adoption in trained and untrained groups. About 95% of the respondents had suggested that the place of training programme would be convenient for you attend is within your village 88.34% of the respondents had suggested in increasing the duration of training programme. About 86.67% of the respondents had seeked follow up activity followed by providing transport facility to attend the training programmes by 53.34% of the respondents and 41.66% has suggested that provision boarding & lodging facilities.
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