Feasibility of fruit plant nursery as an enterprise For rural women
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Date
2010
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CCSHAU
Abstract
For assessing the feasibility of fruit plant nursery as an enterprise for rural women, two blocks i.e.
Jind and Pillukhera of Jind district were selected randomly. Out of the selected blocks two villages namely
Lohachab and Pillukhera were selected at random. A sample of 100 respondents i.e. 50 from each village
was drawn and 15 women respondents from each selected village were selected randomly who were
interested to undertake training on fruit plant nursery. Various socio-personal, economic, psychological and
communication variables constituted the independent variables and knowledge, attitude, skill and
acceptability constituted the dependent variables for the study. Data were collected with the help of
pre-tested structured interview schedule. The inferences were drawn on the basis of frequency, percentages,
paired ‘t’ test mean score and correlation.
The study revealed that most of the respondents were of younger and lower middle age group,
illiterate, married and having medium family education status, joint family having members (5-6). Farming
was their main occupation. The annual income was between Rs. 40,000 to Rs. 60,000 belonging to middle
caste with negligible social participation, marginal sized land holding, owning mixed house and having
small herd size. Change proneness, risk orientation and economic motivation were of medium level. Most of
the decisions in intra family as well as in entrepreneurial activities were taken by husbands followed by joint
decisions. Most of the respondents were having low mass media exposure and medium localite source of
information and low cosmopolite sources of information were utilized. The general awareness of most of
the respondents regarding fruit plant nursery was of moderate level, however, awareness was high at
post-exposure level. Maximum number of the respondents of pooled sample found the fruit plant nursery
technology culturally compatible, observable, simplicity/complexity, relatively advantageous and triable.
Respondents succeeded in acquiring knowledge at post exposure level in all the components of fruit plant
nursery viz. uses and nutritive value, bed/soil requirement, varieties, nursery bed preparation, marketing
and economic value. The respondents succeeded in change their attitude at post exposure. The respondents
acquired skill of medium level after exposure of training for fruit plant nursery. Impact of fruit plant nursery
was found to be moderately high. It is moderately high symbolic adoption for income generation. Overall
acceptability of fruit plant nursery was of moderate level. Personal and economic constraints were
perceived as the main constraints than social, educational and physical constraints in adoption of nursery
raising of fruit plants. Knowledge was significantly correlated with land holding, income and risk
orientation while attitude was found significantly and positively correlated with age, education, land holding
and risk orientation.
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Developmental stages, Storage, Sugar, Solutes, Harvesting, Irrigation, Chrysanthemum, Grain legumes, Packaging, Storage structures