Impact assessment of food processing trainings on scheduled caste women
dc.contributor.advisor | Seema Rani | |
dc.contributor.author | Nisha | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-25T05:02:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-25T05:02:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.description.abstract | The study was conducted to assess the impact of food processing training on scheduled caste women. A total of 155 scheduled caste women respondents of seven villages of 3 blocks i.e. Hisar-I, Hisar–II and Hansi of Hisar District of Haryana state were imparted training on food processing. Out of these 104 respondents were selected for the present study. Various socio- personal, economic, psychological and communication variables constitute the independent variables for the study and knowledge, attitude, skill acquisition and adoption constitute the dependent variables for the study. Most of the respondent (52.88%) were of lower middle age group , educated up to matriculation (45.19%), married (80.78%) having medium family education status and belong to nuclear families. Majority of them were laborers with monthly income between rupees. 40,000-60,000 and had medium level of material possession. The psychological profile revealed medium level of change proneness, risk orientation and high entrepreneurial motivation. Maximum training effectiveness score was recorded for pickling of seasonal vegetables (WMS 2.43) followed by fruit and vegetable preservation (WMS2.26), processing of milk and milk products (WMS 2.40) and baking (WMS 2.20). Most of the respondents succeeded in acquiring knowledge of all the training on food processing. Respondents were highly satisfied with the green chilli pickle in fruit and vegetable preservation training, pickling of seasonal vegetables training, production & preservation of paneer in milk and milk products training and making of chocolate cake in baking training. Respondents were highly satisfied about quality of trainer and subject matter for all the trainings. Sufficient knowledge was recorded for all components of food processing and knowledge level of trainees was found high. Skill acquisition of respondents was of medium level for all the trainings. Overall impact of trainings was of medium level. Economic constraints were perceived as major constraint followed by personal, market and technical constraints for all the trainings. Attitude of respondents was found favourable towards all selected trainings. The training component had significant association with knowledge, attitude and skills. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810039845 | |
dc.keywords | Utility and coverage, Satisfaction level, Knowledge, Attitude, Skill, Adoption | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | CCSHAU | en_US |
dc.sub | Extension Education | en_US |
dc.subject | null | en_US |
dc.theme | Impact assessment of food processing trainings on scheduled caste women | en_US |
dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
dc.title | Impact assessment of food processing trainings on scheduled caste women | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |