INVOLVEMENT OF RURAL WOMEN IN SELECTED POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES
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2004-01-20
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BANGALORE
Abstract
The present study was conducted in the year 2001-2002 in Dharwad
district with a sample size of 120 beneficiaries of selected NGO Bharatiya
Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF) under the Jana Uthan and Shakti
Schemes who had taken income generating activity as a venture and
collected data on socio-personal characteristics, knowledge and opinion
towards the programme, economic benefits derived, problems faced and
suggestions for improvement of the programme, with the help of pre-
tested structured schedule.
The results of the study revealed that majority of the beneficiaries
were young age, illiterates, single, landless, above poverty line group,
belonged to forward caste, nuclear family with small family size and
Ihing in mixed type of house. Majority were possessing radio. A sizeable
percentage of the beneficiaries had medium level of social participation,
extension participation and mass media participation. Majority of the
beneficiaries (48.33%) had medium level of knowledge and exhibited
highly favourable opinion (35.83%) towards the programme. Knowledge
about the programme was positively and significantly related. Opinion
towards the programme was positively and significantly related with
education, social participation and extension participation.
Dairy enterprise was most preferred subsidiary occupation followed
by nursery raising. Higher cost benefit ratio was obtained from vermi
composting (1:4.30) followed by dairy enterprise (1:3.60) and tailoring
(1:3.20).C-nt percent of the beneficiaries were in the habit of saving
money, the purpose to expand the financial base, for education of
children and to expand their business activity in order of preference.
Major constraints faced by the beneficiaries were difficulty in
starting new activities (35.00%) and insufficient credits (31.67%).
Important suggestions were to provide additional loan, supply of
animal feeds at low cost and adequate training for effective
implementation of income generating activities through Poverty
Alleviation Programmes.
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