Economic feasibility of nursery raising for rural women

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dc.contributor.advisorSethi, Nishi
dc.contributor.authorNutan
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-17T09:24:14Z
dc.date.available2016-11-17T09:24:14Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThe present investigation was carried out in four villages of Hisar district of Haryana state to assess economic feasibility of nursery raising and impact of training of Vegetable nursery raising in farm women. The selection of villages was based on their domination of Vegetables nursery raising activities. Four villages having maximum participation in nursery raising activities were selected. Thirty women respondents from each village were selected. Thus a sample of 120 respondents was selected out of four villages. Respondents having maximum participation and interested in training of nursery raising activities were selected for imparting skill training. Twenty rural women each from villages Aryanagar and Ludhas were selected and were brought to Vegetable farm of CCS HAU, Hisar for 2 days for imparting training. Training was imparted through experts of Vegetable department. The independent variables selected for study were socio-personal and economic variables, psychological variables, situational variables whereas existing pattern of nursery raising and impact assessment of training (KAS) were taken as dependent variables. Majority of the respondents were of middle age group, medium caste, joint families were one boy and one girl, illiterate and had more than to 5 acres of land. Almost fifty per cent of the respondents were induced in social organizations and most of the respondents had low overall material possession. Commutation profile of the respondents was low to medium. Majority of the respondents motivate to grow nursery for high demand, past experience and technical competence, half of the respondents managed themselves with the help of borrowed money against drought, majority of the respondents got financial assistance of Rs. 10000-15000. Excessive burden of work and responsibilities, difficulty in marketing, poor quality seed were the major constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of nursery raising practices. The comparative work participation analysis showed that all male members were made selection of seeds and women were applying fertilizers, seedling and engagement of labour whereas transplanting was performed jointly by them. There was significant difference in the knowledge of rural women at pre and post exposure stage for all the messages. The ‘+’ values for all the messages were found to be significant. Significant change in attitude, knowledge, skill regarding all the messages. The study revealed that majority of the respondents in different aspects of nursery raising was found in medium level of category. The impact assessment of training regarding identified message showed that the calculated impact was found to be of moderate level i.e. 62.68 per cent proving economic feasibility of the nursery raising.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/86025
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCCSHAUen_US
dc.subHome Science
dc.subjectCrop management, Biological phenomena, Markets, Manpower, Participation, Vegetables, Economics, Productivity, Selection, Sowingen_US
dc.these.typeM.Sc
dc.titleEconomic feasibility of nursery raising for rural womenen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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