Impact of rural agricultural work experience (RAWE) programe on agriculture graduates of Vellayani campus, KAU
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2006
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Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Vellayani
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The study entitled ‘Impact of Rural Agricultural Work Experience (RAWE) programme on agriculture graduates of Vellayani campus, KAU’ was undertaken to assess the impact of RAWEP in empowering the B.Sc. Agriculture graduates, their profile characters and their relationship with empowerment. The study also aimed to analyse the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the programme, identify the constraints and make suggestions for improving RAWEP.
The study was conducted in College of Agriculture, Vellayani campus of Kerala Agricultural University. A sample of 100 respondents from the first four batches who underwent RAWE programme were selected using stratified random sampling with equal allocation. Data were collected through well structured questionnaires and interview schedule.
The study revealed that the entrepreneurial behaviour and aspiration were high with the respondents. Most of the respondents were in the medium category for the other dimensions such as risk orientation, achievement motivation, knowledge gained, competency, professional contact and leadership qualities considered for empowerment in the study.
The distribution of respondents based on profile characters was found high with female sex, nuclear family type, rural background and non-agricultural occupation. The employed and unemployed category were almost equal in distribution. Progressiveness was found to be high among of the respondents.
Though there was no significant difference between batches with respect to empowerment index, which was observed to be the highest with the batch III.
Among the dimensions of empowerment, self confidence and achievement motivation was high with batch I. Aspiration, leadership quality, knowledge gained and competency were high with batch IV. Professional contact was high with batch II. Risk orientation was high with batch III and IV.
The dimensions of empowerment, viz., leadership quality, entrepreneurial behaviour, knowledge gained, professional contact and risk orientation had shown positive and significant relationship with empowerment index.
The profile characters viz., family type, innovativeness, occupation of the respondents and progressiveness had shown positive and significant relationship with empowerment index. The strength of RAWEP indicated, that it blended the technical as well as the personal characters of the students. Lack of time for the full fledged completion of the programme was the major weakness. Exposure to various village level institutions, research stations and enterprises were considered as the opportunities. The major threat was the limited exposure to contact village.
The predominant constraint faced by the respondents was the lack of time for the completion of RAWEP. Hence for future improvement of RAWEP, the splitting RAWEP to two phases or increasing the duration of RAWEP can be suggested for an improved usefulness of RAWEP.
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