Adoption and diffusion of homestead technologies among rural women
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2020-08
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CCSHAU, Hisar
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The present study on “adoption and diffusion of home stead technology among rural women” was conducted on 200 women from four villages i.e. Sundawas, Bichpari, Shikarpur, Shahpur villages from Hisar district of Haryana state adopted during last four years under IAHS programme of College of Home Science. The independent variables included personal, economical, social, communicational, psychological and technological. The dependent variables of the respondents were adoption status, factors contributing of adoption and non-adoption and consequences of adopted technologies. Data were collected personally with the help of inventory, schedule and questionnaire and were analyzed by application of frequency, percentages, and other descriptive techniques. Maximum of the IAHS respondents belonged to 29+-40 years age group from general caste , married ,educated up to 12th having nuclear families structure from of medium family size. Farming as well as labor was reported as main occupation of the family members, had marginal land holding and they were observed to fall under above poverty line. Maximum number of the respondents reported demonstration+ lecture for acquiring various type of information. Adoption of technologies majority of the respondents were reported continued adoption of the garment construction and pickles, nutritious recipes, macramé products and soft toys making. Technologies like garment construction, macramé products and soft toys making were used for the income generation most of the respondents. Diffusion of the technologies indicated that on an average each IAHS beneficiary disseminated the technologies among more than one woman. Education, caste, land holding, family type economic status, achievement motivation, technology perception score was found to be positively and significantly correlated with stages of adoption of different homestead technologies at 5% level of significance. Whereas age, occupation, marital status caste, land holding, social and political participation were found to be negatively but significantly correlated with stage of adoption for different homestead technologies. Major reasons for non adoption of technologies were unavailability of raw material, not acquisition of the prefect skills, lack of interest and not need based , lack of resources i.e. (time, money, space etc), costlier to adopt and lack of family support, taste not liked by the family members. Consequence of the adopted technologies were assessed in term of direct- desirable, direct undesirable, indirect desirable and indirect undesirable. Maximum number of consequences was reported by the respondents in improved mud stove technology followed by pearl millets, garment construction, and wealth out of waste.