Feasibility of mushroom enterprise for empowerment of women
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Date
2009
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CCSHAU
Abstract
For assessing the feasibility of mushroom enterprise for
empowerment of women, two blocks i.e. Pehowa and Ladwa of Kurkshetra
district were selected randomly. Out of the selected blocks two villages namely
Bhoarsainda and Niwarsi were selected at random. A sample of 100
respondent’s i.e. 50 from each village was drawn and 25 women each from
selected villages were selected randomly who were interested in having XXVIIItraining
on mushroom production. Various socio-economic, personal,
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, percentage, paired‘t’ test, mean score and correlation.
The findings of the study revealed that majority of the
respondents belonged to lower middle age group, educated upto matriculation,
married, had medium family educational status, belonged to joint family,
medium sized family and farming was their main occupation. Most of the
respondents fall in the middle category of annual income i.e. between Rs.
40,001 to Rs. 60,000. Majority of the respondents belonged to middle caste,
possessing medium land holding between 5-10 acres and negligible social
participation, owning pucca house and having small herd size. Majority of the
respondents had medium level of change proneness, risk orientation and
economic motivation. Majority of them took decisions jointly in intra family as
well as in entrepreneurial activities.
The difference between pre and post exposure, mean score of
knowledge and attitude was highly significant at 0.05 pre cent of probability.
Majority of respondents had acquired medium skill acquisition for mushroom
production after exposure to the training. Impact assessment of training
regarding mushroom production on rural women speaks of the fact that
calculated impact was found to be of moderately high level. Most of the
respondents had moderately high symbolic adoption and willingness to adopt
mushroom production for income generation and had high overall acceptability
of mushroom production.
Regarding the association of gain in knowledge and other
variables, it was found that knowledge was significantly and positively
correlated with caste, land holding, income and risk orientation but had
significant and negative correlation with the size of family. Age, education were
found to be significantly and positively correlated with attitude whereas income
and risk orientation were found to be significantly and negatively correlated with
attitude.
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Feasibility, Adoption, Mushroom, Knowledge, Attitude, Empowerment