Economic feasibility of nursery raising for rural women
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Date
2009
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CCSHAU
Abstract
The present investigation was carried out in four villages of
Hisar district of Haryana state to assess economic feasibility of nursery
raising and impact of training of Vegetable nursery raising in farm women.
The selection of villages was based on their domination of Vegetables nursery
raising activities. Four villages having maximum participation in nursery
raising activities were selected. Thirty women respondents from each village
were selected. Thus a sample of 120 respondents was selected out of four
villages. Respondents having maximum participation and interested in
training of nursery raising activities were selected for imparting skill training.
Twenty rural women each from villages Aryanagar and Ludhas were selected
and were brought to Vegetable farm of CCS HAU, Hisar for 2 days for
imparting training. Training was imparted through experts of Vegetable
department. The independent variables selected for study were socio-personal
and economic variables, psychological variables, situational variables whereas
existing pattern of nursery raising and impact assessment of training (KAS)
were taken as dependent variables. Majority of the respondents were of middle
age group, medium caste, joint families were one boy and one girl, illiterate
and had more than to 5 acres of land. Almost fifty per cent of the respondents
were induced in social organizations and most of the respondents had low
overall material possession. Commutation profile of the respondents was low
to medium. Majority of the respondents motivate to grow nursery for high
demand, past experience and technical competence, half of the respondents
managed themselves with the help of borrowed money against drought,
majority of the respondents got financial assistance of Rs. 10000-15000.
Excessive burden of work and responsibilities, difficulty in marketing, poor
quality seed were the major constraints faced by the respondents in adoption
of nursery raising practices. The comparative work participation analysis
showed that all male members were made selection of seeds and women were
applying fertilizers, seedling and engagement of labour whereas transplanting
was performed jointly by them. There was significant difference in the
knowledge of rural women at pre and post exposure stage for all the
messages. The ‘+’ values for all the messages were found to be significant.
Significant change in attitude, knowledge, skill regarding all the messages.
The study revealed that majority of the respondents in different aspects of
nursery raising was found in medium level of category. The impact
assessment of training regarding identified message showed that the
calculated impact was found to be of moderate level i.e. 62.68 per cent
proving economic feasibility of the nursery raising.
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Crop management, Biological phenomena, Markets, Manpower, Participation, Vegetables, Economics, Productivity, Selection, Sowing