STUDY ON ATTITUDE TOWARDS FARM ENTERPRISES AND THEIR ADOPTION LEVEL BY THE YOUTH FARM WOMEN IN RAICHUR DISTRICT

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2014-06-30
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, RAICHUR
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The study was carried out in Raichur district of Karnataka during the year 2013-14, with the sample size of 120 youth farm women. The ex-post-facto research design was used for study. The study revealed that 38.33 per cent of youth farm women belonged to favourable attitude category while remaining 31.67 per cent had most favourable attitude towards farm enterprises and 30.00 per cent were in less favourable attitude category. More than half (54.00 %) of the youth farm women are having medium level of adoption for dairy enterprise. With respect to cleaning and grooming of the dairy animals, majority (76.00 %) of the respondents were in full adoption category. Majority (76.00 %) of the youth farm women did not adopt artificial insemination practices. As for sheep rearing enterprise, more than half (52.00 %) of the youth farm women were found belonging to medium adoption category. With regards to vaccination, 54.00 per cent of the youth farm women fully adopted vaccination of sheep. Culling of adult stock was not adopted by 62.00 per cent of the respondents. With regards to vermicompost enterprise 40.00 per cent of the youth farm women were under medium adoption category. Use of recommended species of earthworm for vermicompost production was fully adopted by majority (60.00 %) of the respondents. Half (50.00 %) of the youth farm women did not adopted the practice of construction of ant well. Annual income, social participation, management orientation, achievement motivation, risk orientation showed positive and significant relationship at 1 per cent level of probability with their attitude. The variables land holding, annual income, extension contact and achievement motivation were found to be positive and significant relationship with their adoption at 1 per cent level of probability
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