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  • ThesisItemOpen Access
    Study on Iron Status of Rural Adolescent Girls in Dantiwada Block
    (SARDARKRUSHINAGAR DANTIWADA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY - SARDARKRUSHINAGAR, 2012-04-22) PRASHANT JITENDRAKUMAR, JOSHI; I. N., PATEL
    The present study was undertaken to find out the prevalence of anemia among adolescent girls in Dantiwada taluka. Three hundred rural adolescent girls of the age between 10 to 17 years were included in the present investigation. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the adolescent girls were between 14 to 17 years of age, unmarried, belong to nuclear family and having medium family size. The education status of girls was medium. Majority of adolescent girls were students and having very less income. The majority of the adolescent girls received information about health and physiology from television. Diabetes was more prevalent amongst families followed by heart diseases, asthma, tuberculosis and cancer of the adolescent girls. Majority of the adolescent girls had the complications like of pale nails and palm, fatigue, fast breathing, leg pain and edema. The results revealed that height of the majority of respondents were between 145 to 150 cm, weight above 40 kg and most of the subjects were observed BMI between 19.6 to 26. 4 Dietary information of the study subjects showed that a majority girls were vegetarian, and their diet also very simple. However, few of the adolescent girls taken some special food in teen age, like a chicki, sukhdi etc. The food consumption pattern of the adolescent girls showed that the consumption of various foods except cereals was irregular and infrequent. Bajra was the staple cereal consumed through out the year by all the adolescent girls. The consumption pattern of pulses, roots and tubers, other vegetables, milk product was low among adolescent girls, while green leafy vegetables were not included in their daily diet as consumption of these vegetables was largely depends upon the availability during different seasons. Similarly fruits were not included in their daily diet. They consumed mango, banana and guava as the main fruits, because these were seasonal fruits and were available at a cheaper rate. The consumption of animal foods except milk, meat, egg, fish or poultry was noticed only in few adolescent girls. For the biochemical investigation, hemoglobin level of the adolescent girls was estimated by Auto Kit Method and found that out of the total adolescent girls under present study, majority (69.66 per cent) were found anemic with varying grades of anemia viz., 29.00 per cent had moderately anemic, 5.66 per cent with severely anemic and 35.00 per cent were mildly anemic. A highly significant relationship were observed between weight and Height of the adolescent girls and their haemoglobin status and also the highly significant linear relationship was noted between iron content of diets consumed by the adolescent girls and their haemoglobin level. The above findings leads to the conclusion, that a high prevalence of different grades of anaemia was found in maximum of the adolescent girls, due to lower intake of iron rich foods and also due to additional requirement of iron in adolescent girls because of rapid growth and menstrual blood loss. 5 Hence, all the findings in the study reveal that the adolescent girls of Dantiwada taluka had poor nutritional status. Also anthropometric measurements were found low. Besides for diet, low socio-economic status, high level of illiteracy, physical work load, unavailability of different foods in this area, ignorance and superstitions, gender discrimination, poverty, ignorance etc., factors were responsible for poor health status and high prevalence of anemia among adolescent girls. The result of the present study showed that adolescent girls of Dantiwada taluka are still living under the poor nutritional status. Therefore, such girls should be aware about the nutrition and its importance. Similarly they should be taught about how to improve their health and nutritional status. There is a great need to increase literacy level. So that the ultimate objective of procurement of good nutritional status can be ensured. In view these systematic and planned efforts for awareness are very much needed. As self and social awareness is the best way to develop society with good nutrition. The future planning could include strengthening the adolescent-friendly reproductive health program, initiating Iron Folic Acid supplementation and Tetanus Toxoids immunization for adolescent girls improving nutrition for its short-term and long-term benefits, strengthening the promotion of keeping girls in schools and girls completing secondary school.
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    A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON SOCIOECONOMIC ASPECTS OF RURAL AND URBAN COMMUNITY IN BANASKANTHA DISTRICT
    (SARDARKRUSHINAGAR DANTIWADA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY - SARDARKRUSHINAGAR, 2022-09-16) PAYALBEN BHARATBHAI, JOSHI; NEETA, KHANDELWAL
    COVID-19 had enormously impacted the social and economic life of the people. Therefore, the research “A comparative study of the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on socioeconomic aspects of rural and urban community in Banaskantha district” has been undertaken to determine the characteristics and effects of COVID-19 on social and economic aspects of rural and urban respondents during and post-lockdown. Further, the study compared the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on socioeconomic aspects between rural and urban respondents. The study sample consisted of 200 respondents randomly selected from ten rural and ten urban areas in two talukas of Banaskantha district. An interview schedule was developed to collect respondents’ data and was analyzed statistically using an Independent sample t-test, mean percent score and percentage. The result showed that socially and economically rural respondents were moderately affected during the lockdown but socially affected slightly in post-lockdown. In comparison, urban respondents' social and economic aspects were extremely affected during the lockdown and moderately affected in post-lockdown. A significant difference was found between lockdown and post-lockdown for social and economic effects due to COVID-19 pandemic between rural and urban respondents. Social effects during a lockdown and economic effects in post-lockdown were found to be comparatively high. Overall, it can be concluded that COVID-19 adversely affected social and economic aspects of rural and urban communities during and post-lockdown. Thus, better management by the government against COVID-19 pandemic is essential to mitigate the social and economic crisis.
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    DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICAL MODEL FOR FORECASTING OF POTATO (Solanum tuberosum L.) YIELD IN BANASKANTHA DISTRICT
    (SARDARKRUSHINAGAR DANTIWADA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY - SARDARKRUSHINAGAR, 2020-10-16) JAIMIN PARSHOTAMBHAI, KHODIFAD; M. K., CHAUDHARI
    Potato is an important crop of the Banaskantha district. Consistent high yield of potato is very important for the profitability of potato crop. But it is hard to achieve because wide range of factors influence the potato yield. Among other factors, weather is one of the most impacting factors of potato production as it directly influence the biological processes of potato plant and biological processes determine the potato production. Which weather parameters affect the most and in what extent on yield of the potato is the prime aim of the present study. In present study week wise approach of original weather parameters was used for forecasting yield of potato. The time trend was included as an explanatory variable in this approach. Out of 16 crop weeks, 11th, 12th and 13th were considered to provide early forecasts. Three sets of step-wise regression equations were worked out separately for model-I (25 years), model-II (26 years) and model-III (27 years). The secondary data pertaining to the area, production and productivity of potato crop from Department of Agricultural Economics, and data regarding weather parameters for the 30 years from 1987-88 to 2016-17 from the Meteorological Observatory located at Instruction Farm, Department of Agronomy, C. P. College of Agriculture, S. D. A. U., Sardarkrushinagar. Study revealed that trends of actual yield of potato in Banaskantha district during the study period (1987-88 to 2016-17) was found fluctuating. However, actual yield of potato was consistent with predicted value worked out by using the cubic model. The study also highlighted that maximum temperature had positive impact during 6th crop week and negative impact during 3rd and 13th crop week, respectively. Yield of potato decreases with increase in minimum temperature Abstract ii during 4th crop week and increases with increase in minimum temperature dring 12th crop week. Study also indicated that potato yield increases with morning relative humidity during 1st, 2nd, 5th, 9th and 12th crop week. Also, yield of potato influenced positively by evening relative humidity during 1st and 2nd crop week. Pertaining to sunshine hours, potato yield influenced positively during 6th crop week and negatively impact 15th and 16th crop weeks. Study showed that 12th and 13th crop weeks were found to be appropriate for developing the forecasting model for potato yield in Banaskantha districts. Result of simulated forecasting of recorded yield revealed that these models were found important for predication of potato yield before one month of harvest of crop in Banaskantha district.
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    COMPARISON OF TIME SERIES MODELS IN RELATION TO CROPS IN NORTH GUJARAT
    (SARDARKRUSHINAGAR DANTIWADA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY - SARDARKRUSHINAGAR, 2021-09-25) HAPPYBEN PANKAJBHAI, PATEL; M. K., CHAUDHARI
    The present study entitled, “Comparison of time series models in relation to crops in North Gujarat” was undertaken to compare different statistical models for selected important crops viz., castor, mustard, kharif bajra, wheat, potato and to estimate the future trends of the selected crops to fit the appropriate model for the future projections by 2023 A.D. The study was carried for North Gujarat using time series data from 1990-91 to 2017-18. Different time series models viz., linear, exponential smoothing, ARIMA, ARCH and GARCH were fitted to the area, production and productivity of selected crops and the best-fitted model was chosen based on least Mean Absolute Percent Error (MAPE) value and highest R2 value for future projections. The time series models were fitted on original data. The Autoregressive Moving Average (ARIMA) models were fitted to original time series data after checking the stationary condition. The different ARIMA models (p,d,q) were judged on the basis of autocorrelation function (ACF) and partial autocorrelation function (PACF) at various lags. Among different fitted ARIMA models, the final models were selected on the basis of significant autoregressive and moving average term. The area, production and productivity of the major crops in North Gujarat were projected up to 2023 A.D. For the castor area and production, ARIMA (4,0,1) model was found as best fitted model. For castor productivity, all the models were dropped for prediction. Regarding the mustard area, ARIMA (2,0,1) model was found as the best fitted model. For mustard production, all the models were dropped for prediction. For mustard productivity, ARIMA (4,0,1) model was found as best fitted model. Regarding the kharif bajra area, ARIMA (3,0,1) model was the best suitable model. For kharif bajra production and productivity, all the models were dropped for prediction. Regarding the wheat area and production, ARIMA (5,0,1) model was the best suitable model. For wheat productivity, all the models were dropped for prediction. Regarding the potato area, ARIMA (5,1,1) model was the best fitted model. For potato production, ARIMA (4,1,1) model was found as a best suitable model. For potato productivity, all the models were dropped for prediction.
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    PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF POMEGRANATE CULTIVATION AS PERCEIVED BY FARMERS OF BANASKANTHA DISTRICT
    (SARDARKRUSHINAGAR DANTIWADA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY - SARDARKRUSHINAGAR, 2020-10-29) HARDIK D., DODIYA; V. T., PATEL
    India is one of the largest producers of pomegranate in the world. Maharashtra is the leading state in India other important states are Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. The area under pomegranate cultivation is increasing rapidly in Guajrat and especially in Banaskantha district. It was 210 ha in 2005-06 which was increased to 10951 ha in 2018-19. The farmers are getting more income than any other field crops. Therefore, they are getting prospectus in pomegranate cultivation. However, they are facing several problems. At present pomegranate cultivation in the district is at cross road. Hence, there was a genuine need for systematic analysis of the problems in pomegranate cultivation more over pomegranate is a remunerative food crop in the district and has many prospectus. Therefore, it was felt very essential to know the problems in pomegranate cultivation and their perception regarding prosectus of pomegranate cultivation. Keeping this in view the study entitled “PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF POMEGRANATE CULTIVATION AS PERCEIVED BY FARMERS OF BANASKANTHA DISTRICT” was therefore planned with following specific objectives. Objectives of the study : [1] To study personal, socio-economic, psychological, communicational and situational characteristics of pomegranate growers [2] To find out the technological gap in adoption of pomegranate cultivation practices by the pomegranate growers [3] To recognize the problems experienced by the pomegranate growers in pomegranate cultivation [4] To study the prospects of pomegranate cultivation as perceived by the farmers [5] To seek suggestions from the pomegranate growers to overcome the problems experienced by them in pomegranate cultivation Abstract ii Methodology : The present study was conducted in Banaskantha district of Gujarat state. Lakhani, Tharad and Dhanera talukas were selected purposively as these talukas had more area under pomegranate cultivation. A list of villages under pomegranate cultivation was prepared with number of farmers cultivating farmers. The six villages having more number of farmers were selected purposively. Ten farmers from each selected villages were selected randomly, thus from 18 villages a sample of 180 farmers was drawn for the study. The selected personal, economic, communication and psychological characteristics were studied either with the help of various scales and indices developed by past researcher or by structured schedule. The dependent variables undertaken were technological gap in adoption of recommended pomegranate cultivation practices and problems and prospects of pomegranate cultivation as perceived by pomegranate growers, which were measured by using a pretested developed structured schedule. An interview schedule was developed according to objectives of study and data were collected by arranging personal interview with 180 pomegranate growers of Banaskantha district. The collected data were classified, tabulated in order to make the findings meaningful. A simple ranking technique was applied to measure constraints and suggestions. Major findings : [1] Nearly half of the pomegranate growers belonged to middle age group and were having primary school to middle school level education. Almost all the pomegranate growers had small to medium size of land holding and majority of pomegranate growers had medium orchard size. More than half of the respondents had membership in more than one organization. More than three fourth of the pomegranate growers had annual income above ` 2,00,000/-. Half of the respondents had medium level of risk preference and more than half of them medium level of economic motivation. Nearly two third of the pomegranate growers had favourable attitude towards pomegranate cultivation. With regard to different sources of information, in informal sources progressive farmers were the main source of information. Whereas, in formal sources Krishi Vigyan Kendra was main source of information and in mass media, krushi mahotsav/krushi mela/exhibition was the major sources of information by the respondents for the cultivation of pomegranate. More than half of the respondents had medium level of extension participation and cosmopoliteness. Majority of the respondents were having medium marketing distance. More than half of the respondents using channel-I (producer-commission agent) for marketing of the pomegranate. [2] Majority of pomegranate growers were having medium level technological gap in processing and value addition, integrated disease management, harvesting, sorting, grading, packaging, storage and integrated pest management practices. Abstract iii [3] The major problems faced by pomegranate growers in pomegranate cultivation were fruit spot, fruit rot, wilt, thrips, anar butterfly, high cost of planting material and fertilizer, poor quality water, lack of cold storage chains, problem of market middle man and lack of adequate information about international market. [4] The major prospects regarding the pomegranate cultivation as perceived by the pomegranate growers were high quality tissue culture plants will be available, processing of pomegranate will be started and increase in area of pomegranate cultivation and increase in production of pomegranate. [5] Social participation and distance from market had positive and highly significant relationship with overall technological gap. The independent variables viz., age, area under pomegranate, annual income, risk preference, economic motivation, attitude, source of information, extension participation and cosmopoliteness had negative and highly significant relationship with overall technological gap. [6] The independent variables viz., age, education, annual income, economic motivation, attitude, extension participation and cosmopoliteness had negative and highly significant relationship with problems experienced by pomegranate growers in pomegranate practices. While social participation and distance from market had positive and highly significant relationship with problems experienced by them. [7] Multiple regression analysis indicated that all variables exerted as much as 79.70 per cent of total variation in overall technological gap in adoption of pomegranate cultivation practices. The results of step-wise regression analysis indicated that the total variation in intensity of problems in pomegranate cultivation practices were accounted by a set of twelve variables viz., education, size of land holding, area under pomegranate, social participation, annual income, risk preference, source of information, extension participation, cosmopoliteness, distance from market, marketing channel and attitude. [8] The results of step-wise regression analysis indicated that 89.20 per cent of the total variation in technological gap in pomegranate cultivation practices was accounted by a set of twelve variables viz., marketing channel, risk preference, extension participation, cosmopoliteness, education, attitude, annual income, area under pomegranate, distance from market, source of information, social participation and size of land holding. [9] The major suggestions expressed by pomegranate growers to overcome the constraints faced by the pomegranate growers in adoption of pomegranate production technology were the export of fruits through co-operatives sector should be promoted, provide training for value addition, the co-operative organizations should be established for marketing of pomegranate and rural youth should be trained for bahar treatment.
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    ADOPTION OF INDIAN BEAN PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY BY THE FARMERS OF SABARKANTHA DISTRICT
    (SARDARKRUSHINAGAR DANTIWADA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY - SARDARKRUSHINAGAR, 2020-10-22) DHRUV YOGESHKUMAR, PATEL; G. J., PATEL
    Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy. The role of agriculture in the economic development of India cannot be underestimated as the largest segment of our population is wedded to agriculture. However, it is a well-known fact that even after the green revolution and spectacular achievement in the field of agriculture the rate of production per unit area is still very low. The only way to tide over this situation is to transform Indian agriculture from a subsistence level to a modern scientific system of farming. Currently, in India vegetables are being grown in 10.25 million hectares with the production of 184.39 million tonnes which contributes 15.00 per cent of the total world production of vegetables which is second highest in the world next only to China (Anonymous 2018a). Indian bean, Lablab purpureus L., belongs to the family Leguminosae and sub-family Fabaceae. It is one of the most ancient pulse crops among cultivated plants. In Gujarat, Indian bean is grown commercially to meet out the domestic demand for its green pod and dry pulse. The major Indian bean growing districts are Sabarkantha, Banaskantha, Mahesana, Surat, Navasari, Vadodara, Panchmahal, etc. Among them Sabarkantha district is especially famous for vegetable Indian bean cultivation. The average Indian bean yield of Sabarkantha district was 12.25 tonnes/ha during the year 2017-18 (Anonymous 2018b) whereas, potential yield of the crop was 15-20 tonnes/ha (Patel et al. 2012). Therefore, there was a wide gap observed between the average yield of common farmers and the potential yield of the crop. The yield difference might be due to fact that all the farmers might be not adopted all the improved practices of Indian bean cultivation with the same pace. There are many opportunities for increasing production per unit area by adopting improved seeds of high yielding varieties coupled with suitable production technology. Looking to the above situation a study entitled, “Adoption of Indian bean production technology by the farmers of Sabarkantha district” was undertaken with following objectives: Abstract ii Objectives of the study (1) To study the profile of Indian bean farmers (2) To study the knowledge level of Indian bean farmers regarding Indian bean production technology (3) To find out extent of adoption of Indian bean production technology by the Indian bean farmers (4) To ascertain the association between the profile of Indian bean farmers and their knowledge level regarding Indian bean production technology (5) To ascertain the association between the profile of Indian bean farmers and their extent of adoption of Indian bean production technology (6) To identify the constraints experienced by the Indian bean farmers in adoption of Indian bean production technology (7) To seek suggestions from the farmers to overcome the constraints experienced by them in adoption of Indian bean production technology Methodology The present study was confirmed to Ex-post Facto research design as the independent variable were already operated in the study area. The present investigation was carried out in Sabarkantha district. Among the eight talukas of Sabarkantha district Vadali and Idar were purposively selected on the basis of highest area and production of green pod vegetable Indian bean (Valol/Valor) in the district. Eight villages having higher area under Indian bean cultivation from each selected taluka were purposively selected for the study. Hence, the total sixteen villages were selected for study. Ten Indian bean farmers were selected randomly from the list of Indian bean farmers of each selected village. Thus, 160 Indian bean farmers were selected for the study. The data were collected with the help of interview scheduled through personal contact and data were analysed with statistical methods. Major findings (1) The finding related to the selected characteristics of the Indian bean farmers indicated that they were; belongs to middle age group (56.25 per cent), had middle to high school education (66.87 per cent), had medium to small family size (85.00 per cent), possessed small to medium size of land holding (77.49 per cent), had medium to low annual income (64.37 per cent), had membership in one organization or more than one organization (82.50 per cent), had medium to high market orientation (79.80 per cent), had medium to high economic motivation (84.37 per cent), were utilized medium to high sources of information (86.25 per cent), had medium to high level of economic motivation (84.37 per cent), were utilized medium to high sources of information (86.25 per cent), had medium to high extension participation (80.00 per cent), were adopted Indian bean – Indian bean – fallow cropping pattern (51.25 per cent), and open well only as an irrigation facility (65.63 per cent). (2) Majority (81.25 per cent) of the Indian bean farmers had medium to high level of knowledge regarding the Indian bean production technology. The finding Abstract iii regards to practices wise knowledge about recommended Indian bean production technology shown that vast majority of the potato growers had higher knowledge about soil, improved varieties and tillage with ranked first to third. (3) Majority (78.12 per cent) of the Indian bean farmers had medium to high level of adoption regarding the Indian bean production technology. The findings regard to practice wise adoption about recommended Indian bean production technology shown that vast majority of the Indian bean farmers had higher adoption level regarding soil, improved varieties and tillage with ranked first to third. (4) The results of correlation analysis indicated that independent variables viz., education, size of land holding, annual income, social participation, source of information, and cropping pattern were positively and significantly associated with knowledge level of the Indian bean production technology. While market orientation, economic motivation and extension participation had a positive and highly significant correlation with knowledge level of the Indian bean production technology. Whereas, age, family size and irrigation facility had a positive but non-significant correlation with knowledge level of the Indian bean production technology. (5) The results of correlation analysis indicated that independent variables viz., education, size of land holding, annual income, social participation, source of information, and cropping pattern had a positive and significant correlation with extent of adoption of the Indian bean production technology. While market orientation, economic motivation and extension participation had a positive and highly significant correlation with extent of adoption of the Indian bean production technology. Whereas, age, family size and irrigation facility had a positive but non-significant correlation with extent of adoption of the Indian bean production technology. (6) The major constraints faced by the Indian bean farmers in adoption of Indian bean production technology were; fluctuations in market rate, high cost of improved variety seeds, fertilizers, FYM and agro-chemicals, higher infestation of disease and pest, non-availability of labour at a proper time and high wages of labour. (7) The important suggestions endorsed by the Indian bean farmers in adoption of improved technology of Indian bean crop were; Quality of seeds, fertilizers, agro-chemicals and other inputs should be available in time with low cost, rate of produce should be regulated, proper and regular information should be provided on different aspects of recommended Indian bean production technology, need to increase small farm mechanization and credit should be provided timely with low interest rate.
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    TECHNOLOGICAL GAP IN GREENGRAM PRODUCTION AMONG THE TRIBAL FARMERS OF SABARKANTHA DISTRICT
    (SARDARKRUSHINAGAR DANTIWADA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY - SARDARKRUSHINAGAR, 2020-11-15) SMIT NILESHBHAI, BARASIYA; V. V., PRAJAPATI
    The present study was conducted to evaluate the technological gap in recommended summer greengram production technology in Sabarkantha district of north Gujarat. Among all eight taluka of Sabarkantha district, three talukas Khedbrahma, Vijaynagar and Poshina were purposively selected because under these three taluka maximum number of tribal farmers are growing greengram crop in summer season as compared to other talukas of Sabarkantha district. Thus, total 150 tribal summer greengram growers were selected by multi stage sampling technique for present study. The data were collected by personal contact method with the help of structured interview schedule. Ex-post facto research design was used for this study. The majority of the summer greengram growers were belonged to middle and old age group, had functionally literate to primary school level of education, had marginal to small size of land holding, medium annual income, possessed membership in one organization, had medium level utilization of information sources, medium extension participation, medium level of knowledge, medium cropping intensity and had open well as irrigation facility. The greengram growers were having overall medium level of technological gap in summer greengram production technology. Correlation co-efficient analysis showed that age had positive and significant relationship with overall technological gap, where negative and significant relationship was exhibited by education, size of land holding, annual income, social participation, sources of information, extension participation and level of knowledge with overall technological gap in summer greengram production technology. The major problems faced were lack of information regarding biofertilizer for seed treatment, do not get remunerative price of production and inadequate finance. The major suggestions offered were about timely technical guidance should be provided as and when required and training should be conducted before summer season.
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    KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF RICE PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY BY THE FARMERS OF NORTH GUJARAT
    (SARDARKRUSHINAGAR DANTIWADA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY - SARDARKRUSHINAGAR, 2021-09-20) CHANDNIBEN MANOJBHAI, PATEL; G. R., PATEL
    Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a plant belonging to the family of grasses, Gramineae. There are three major food crops (wheat, rice and maize) of world and rice is one of the foremost cereal crops feeding over more than half of the world's population. It is grown in more than a hundred countries, with a total cultivated area of about 156 m ha, producing more than 680 mt. grains annually. About 90 per cent of the rice in the world is grown in Asia rice provides 27 per cent of dietary energy supply and 20 per cent of dietary protein intake in the developing world. The global production of rice has been estimated to be at the level of 680 mt. and the area under rice cultivation is estimated at 156 m ha in 2009 (Anonymous, 2010a). Looking to some situation in north Gujarat study entitled, “Knowledge and adoption of rice production technology by the farmers of North Gujarat” was undertaken with following objectives. Objective of the study (1) To study the profile of rice growers (2) To study the knowledge level of rice production technology of the rice growers (3) To find out extent of adoption of rice production technology by the rice growers (4) To ascertain the association between the profile of rice growers and their extent of adoption of rice production technology (5) To identify the constraints experienced by the rice growers in adoption of rice production technology (6) To seek suggestions from the rice growers to overcome the constraints experienced by them in adoption of rice production technology Research Methodology The present study was confirmed to “Ex-post facto” research design. Multistage random sampling technique was used for selection of talukas, villages and respondents from Gandhinagar and Sabarkantha district. Two talukas from each district and four villages from each taluka and ten rice growers from each village were selected making a sample of 160 respondents. The data were collected using pre tested interview schedule and analysed by appropriate statistical tools. Abstract ii Major findings Majority of the rice growers were in the middle age, UG/PG Education, above 2 lakh annual income, above 4.00 ha of land holding, no membership in organization, bore well as a source of irrigation, medium yield gap, high extension participation, medium level utilization of source of information, medium level of knowledge and medium level of adoption of rice production technology by the rice growers. The independent variables viz., age and yield gap had negative and non significant relationship with adoption of rice production technology. Education, size of land holding, annual income and source of irrigation had positive, but non-significant relation with adoption of rice production technology and social participation and extension participation had positive and highly significant relation with adoption and source of information had positive and significant relation with adoption of rice production technology. The major constraint faced by the rice growers were; lack of the information of weed management, high cost of input, high cost of fertilizer, high cost of seed. Major suggestion given by the rice growers were; quality of seeds, fertilizers, agro-chemicals and other inputs should be available in time with low cost, crop loan should be provide at the proper time.
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    ADOPTION OF CLEAN MILK PRODUCTION PRACTICES BY THE DAIRY FARMERS OF NORTH GUJARAT
    (SARDARKRUSHINAGAR DANTIWADA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY - SARDARKRUSHINAGAR, 2021-09-16) NIRALI H., USADADIYA; R. R., PRAJAPATI
    Clean milk production does not mean making the milk free from extraneous matters like dust, dirt, flies etc. by passing it through sieve or muslin cloth. It actually means the raw milk that has been produced in the udder of healthy dairy animals, handled under hygienic conditions and contains only allowed quantity of bacteria and chemical residues. Clean milk can be defined as milk coming from healthy milch animal, possessing normal flavor, devoid of dirt and filth, containing permissible limit of bacteria and essentially free from adulterants, pathogens, various toxins, abnormal residues, pollutants and metabolites (Ogale, 1999). Good products must have a solid value and solve a quality problem. Quality of product is critical to satisfy customers. Now a days customer focus on quality. Farmers can get good returns from milk if they ensure safe handling of raw milk by having in place a system at their farm that minimize contamination at various stages of handling raw milk and further keeps check on the growth and activity of microorganism in raw milk. Objectives of study 1. To study the selected characteristics of the dairy farmers 2. To study the adoption of clean milk production practices by the dairy farmers 3. To ascertain the relationship between selected characteristics of the dairy farmers and their adoption of clean milk production practices 4. To identify the constraints faced by the dairy farmers in adoption of clean milk production practices 5. To seek suggestions from the dairy farmers to overcome the constraints faced by them in adoption of clean milk production practices Methodology The present investigation was carried out in North Gujarat. Three districts of North Gujarat viz., Banaskantha, Sabarkantha and Mehsana were purposively selected for the study. From each selected district, three talukas and two villages from each selected taluka were randomly selected for the study. Thus, eighteen villages were selected from the nine selected talukas. For selection of the respondents from the villages, a village wise list of dairy farmers was prepared based on farmers having two animals of which one animal in milking stage. From each village, ten dairy farmers were randomly selected as respondents. Thus, total 180 respondents were selected for the study. Abstract ii Adoption quotient was workout to measure the adoption of identified clean milk production by the dairy farmers. Correlation coefficients were calculated to know the relationship between selected characteristics of the dairy farmers and adoption of clean milk production practices. Major findings (1) Half of the dairy farmers were middle aged (50.55 %) and had high school and above level education (49.99 %). Overwhelming majority (89.45 %) of the dairy farmers had up to 4 family members. Nearly half of the dairy farmers had medium herd size (47.22 %) and high level of dairy farming experience (53.89%). (2) Little more than three-fifths (61.12 %) of the dairy farmers were marginal and small farmers and nearly half (47.78 %) of the dairy farmers had annual income ranging from ₹5,00,001 to ₹1,00,000. (3) More than two-thirds of the dairy farmers had medium extension participation (70.00 %), medium level of utilization of information sources (66.67 %), medium risk orientation (69.45 %) and medium economic motivation (70.00%). (4) The major constraints faced by the dairy farmers were in adoption of clean milk production practices; lack of incentives for clean milk, lack of capital for pucca animal shed, poor knowledge about vaccination schedule and investment on clean milk production is uneconomic. (5) Important suggestions endorsed by the dairy farmers were in adoption of clean milk production practices; subsidy should be provided for purchasing disinfectants and detergents required for clean milk production, premium price for quality and milk should be given, timely veterinary services should be made available in the village, training on clean milk production should be organized, training should be organized in the village for easy access.