“A STUDY ON DIFFERENCE IN KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION AMONG TRAINED AND UNTRAINED FARM WOMEN OF HOME SCIENCE TRAINING PROGRAMME ORGANIZED AT KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA, ANJORA, DURG DISTRICT OF CHHATTISGARGH STATE”
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Date
2009
Authors
Smriti
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Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya Raipur
Abstract
Training and education are life long requirements to improve the living standard of large number of people in the villages. The significance of training for development and mobilization of human resources has been recognized long back, but finding out ways for improving effectiveness of training received attention recently. A study was organized in Durg district of Chhattisgarh in the year 2007-08 to assess the difference in knowledge and adoption among trained and untrained farm women of home science training programme. A list of 160 trained farm women was obtained from K.V.K., Anjora and 75 of them were randomly chosen as respondents along with 75 randomly chosen untrained respondents from the same villages and blocks. The data were collected through personal interview with the help of structured interview schedule and statistically analysed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, correlation, regression etc. The study revealed that most of the trained and untrained respondents were middle aged, educated upto middle school, belonged to other backward class, had medium sized family and had membership in one rural social organization. Most of the trained and untrained farm women possessed marginal land holding and had farming as their main family occupation. The trained respondents (48.00%) had annual income from Rs 47,249 to Rs 79,417 whereas the untrained respondents (62.67%) had annual income from Rs 34,047 to Rs 61,478. It was found that most of the trained and untrained respondents showed medium cosmopoliteness. The trained respondents (44.00%) had opinion that there was too much effect of training on the working efficiency of the respondents while the untrained respondents (45.33%) gave the opinion that there was some effect of training on the working efficiency of the respondents. Majority of the trained and untrained respondents had medium overall utilization of sources of information and radio was the most sought after individual source of information followed by friends and television. Most of the trained farm women had extension contact with RAEO‘s and ADO‘s twice or more in a year whereas most of the untrained farm women had extension contact with RAEO‘s twice or more in a year and no contact with ADO‘s. Majority of the trained and untrained farm women had medium exposure to mass media. As regards overall level of knowledge majority of the respondents had medium knowledge regarding home science training programmes. So far as various home science aspects are concerned majority of the trained respondents had medium knowledge whereas in case of untrained respondents most of them had low knowledge about preparation of smoke less chulha and preparation of guava jelly.
With reference to overall extent of adoption majority of the trained respondents had medium adoption while majority of the untrained respondents had low adoption. In case of trained respondents most of them showed low to medium adoption of preparation of guava jelly while the untrained respondents showed low adoption of preparation of smokeless chulha, preparation of tomato sauce and preparation of guava jelly. Correlation analysis revealed that the variables annual income, cosmopoliteness, opinion towards home science training programme, sources of information, contact with extension agencies, mass media exposure and extent of knowledge showed positive and highly significant correlation with adoption in case of trained farm women. As regards untrained farm women the variables education, social participation, annual income, cosmopoliteness, sources of information, contact with extension agencies and extent of knowledge had positive and significant correlation with adoption. On multiple regression analysis it was found that in case of trained respondents the variables age, land holding, cosmopoliteness, opinion towards home science training programme, sources of information, mass media and extent of knowledge had positive and significant contribution towards adoption whereas in case of untrained respondents the variables education, social participation, cosmopoliteness, sources of information, contact with extension agencies and extent of knowledge had positive and significant contribution towards adoption. Inconvenience during training, lack of field visit, lack of time to be devoted to specific subject and lack of availability of extension officer and scientist were the major problems faced by the respondents during the course of training. The important suggestions offered by the respondents were duration of home science training programme should be increased, facilities of practical instruments and training materials should be increased, first aid facilities should be increased at the Krishi Vigyan Kendra.
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KNOWLEDGE, ADOPTION, TRAINED, UNTRAINED, FARM WOMEN, HOME SCIENCE, KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA, ANJORA, DURG, CHHATTISGARGH, Agricultural Extension
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127 p.