Capacity building of rural women through beekeeping
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Date
2009
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CCSHAU
Abstract
The study was undertaken in randomly selected two villages viz: Sultanpur and Umra of Hisar
district, Haryana state. A group of 50 women from each village (total 100 respondents) were selected
randomly. Socio-economic, personal, Communicational, Psychological, Situational parameter were
taken as independent variable and awareness of bee-keeping, feasibility of beekeeping, impact of
training (knowledge gain, change in attitude and symbolic adoption) were taken as dependent. The
study revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to middle age group, high caste, joint families
of medium size, low level of personal and medium family education, having no occupation and income,
had low level of material possession, medium social participation, mass media exposure and low
extension contact while had medium economic motivation, risk orientation but low change proneness.
Majority of the respondents had very less awareness about beekeeping technology benefits of
beekeeping, and bee products, except honey and perceived feasibility of beekeeping enterprise as
medium. Training on beekeeping was organized in collaboration wih Haryana agro industries
cooperation, which resulted in significant increase in awareness about benefits of beekeeping and bee
products, knowledge, attitude and symbolic adoption of respondents. A positive and significant
correlation was found between change in attitude and age, education and economic motivation, material
possession social participation and risk orientation, while there was negative and significant relationship
between knowledge gain and age but significant and positive correlation between education, extension
contact and mass media exposure. Market, technological and economic constraints were the major
factors associated with adoption of beekeeping
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Apiculture, Biological phenomena, Honey, Productivity, Economics, Land resources, Markets, Animal products, Animal population, Manpower