Socio-economic dimensions and adoption of science and technology among farm women
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2023-11
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CCSHAU, HISAR
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The everyday use of science and technology has a significant impact on changing a variety of industries, including agriculture. An increasing amount of attention has been paid in recent years to farmwomen's participation in agricultural techniques. They actively participate in everything from managing household, crop and livestock operations to making major decisions regarding farming techniques. Farmwomen make substantial contributions, but they frequently face obstacles that prevent them from accessing and utilizing knowledge and technology. The study was conducted in two broad agro-climatic zones of Haryana state. From eastern and western agro-climatic zones 4 districts from each, were selected randomly. Accordingly, Jhajjar and Bhiwani from eastern zone, Hisar and Karnal from western zone were selected randomly. Thus, the sample for present investigation was 200 respondents were selected by drawing simple random sampling. The data were collected though well structure interview structure on the basis of independent and dependent variables of the study. The major findings of the study showed that majority of respondents belonged to middle age group, educated up to intermediate level had joint families with 5-6 members from backward class and they were not having social participation and possession of land holding1-2 hectare of land and belonged to small farmers. In case of annual income, majority of the respondents earned upto 3 lakh. Most of the respondents had medium level of mass media exposure, change proneness, economic motivation, risk orientation and entrepreneurial traits, knowledge, scientific temper, and adoption of the respective technologies (agriculture, household and livestock). The data revealed that majority of the respondents perceived that medium level of impact on their life. Education, land holding, family size, occupation, income, mass media exposure and economic motivation found to be positively correlated whereas age and risk orientation were negatively correlated at 0.01 level of significance. Whereas variables viz. social participation, change proneness positively correlated at 0.05 per cent level of significance