A STUDY ON THE KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF SCIENTIFIC STORAGE OF FOODGRAINS AT DOMESTIC LEVEL BY THE .TRAINED FARM WOMEN IN NALGONDA D1STR1CT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
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1992
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ANDHRA PRADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD
Abstract
The Government of India has started the
special training programme on scientific storage of
foodgrains at domestic level for rural women through
Farmers Training Centres in 1976-77 with the main
objectives of making the rural women aware of qualitative
and quantitative losses of foodgrains, their
. economic social implication and giving them the
technical know-how in preventing grain wastage.
The present study was undertaken in order to
assess the knowledge and the extent of adoption of
recommended storage practices by the train·ed farm women
and its relationship with personal, socio-economic and
ps-ychological characteristics of the sample respondents.
The constraints in adoption of recommended
storage practices have also been examined in . depth,
besides problems, suggestions and opinion offered by
the trained farm women for effective implementation of
scientific storage of foodgrains at domestic level.
The expost facto research design was selected
for the study. The study was conducted in six randomly
selected vilages of Athmakur and Mothey mandala at the
rate of three villages in each mandal of Nalgonda
district of Andhra Pradesh. The sample comprised of 120
respondents. The data was collected by personal interview
method and analysed by using appropriate statistical methods. The following findings emerged out
of the study.
Majority of the respondents were of middie age
group with small land holding, medium socio-economic
status, medium exposure to mass media, medium scientific
orientation, medium economic orientation, medium
involvement in decision making, illiterate, without any
social participation and no contact with extension
personnel.
Majority of the respondents had medium level
of knowledge regarding the stored grain practices.
Content analysis indicated a low level of
knowledge pertaining to the percentage of losses caused
during storage, the rat which causes loss in the field,
the chemical used to control field rat, amount of anticoagulant
required to prepare 100 gms of poison bait,
the beetle which attach pulses, the storage structure
which gives maximum protection to grains etc.
Majority of the respondents had low level of
adoption regarding the stored foodgrain practices.
Content analysis of data with regard to recommended
storage practices revealed that non-adoption
practices like use of malathion as pre-treatment, use
of metal bin as improved storage structure, use of EDB
to control insects using improved storage structure to
control moisture etc. ·
Reasons expressed by the trained farm women
for partial and non-adoption of recommended storage
practices were mainly due to non-availability of
chemical, economic limitations, no severe damage, lack
of interest, lack of conviction etc.
The independent variables of the respondents
namely age, education, land holding, socio-economic
status, mass media exposure, and decision making had
positive and significant relationship with knowledge
and adoption of recommended storage practices.
The suggestions given by the sample respondents
for effective implementation of scientific
storage of ·foodgrains at domestic level include more
number of trainings to be organised during summer
season, follow-up visits to be taken up by the trainer,
supply of inputs in time and at subsidised rates etc.
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A STUDY ON THE KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF SCIENTIFIC
STORAGE OF FOODGRAINS AT DOMESTIC LEVEL BY THE
.TRAINED FARM WOMEN IN NALGONDA D1STR1CT OF
ANDHRA PRADESH
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