KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES OF RURAL WOMEN IN JORHAT DISTRICT OF ASSAM REGARDING HERBAL MEDICINAL PLANTS

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dc.contributor.advisorBorah, Sayanika
dc.contributor.authorDutta, Bondita
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-18T11:27:20Z
dc.date.available2020-12-18T11:27:20Z
dc.date.issued2018-07
dc.description.abstractHerbal Medicinal plants are widely used traditionally because of its natural origin. It reduces the side effects and dissatisfaction with the results of synthetic drugs. Among the various reasons of using herbal medicinal plants as herbal medicines are safer, cheaper and easily available than other medicines. And by looking the advantages of herbal medicines, most of the rural women of Jorhat District mostly prefer herbal medicinal plants for curing different ailments of their own or their family members in their daily life. Thus the present study was undertaken to analyse the knowledge, attitude and practice of rural women regarding herbal medicinal plants with the following objectives- i) To study the profile of the rural women, ii) To explore the knowledge of rural women regarding herbal medicinal plants, iii) To identify the attitude of rural women regarding herbal medicinal plants, iv) To find out the practices of rural women regarding selected herbal medicinal plants and v) To explore various problems faced by rural women in practicing selected herbal medicines in their daily life. The study was conducted in the Jorhat District of Assam. A simple random sampling design was followed for selection of two blocks namely Dhekorgarah and Titabor from respective subdivision i.e. Jorhat and Titabor. 100 numbers of female respondents were selected from 4 villages of the two blocks. Data collection was done by interview method. The findings revealed that majority (46.00%) of the respondents belonged to middle age group i.e. 32-45 years and married (98.00%). Fifty percent of the respondents belonged to ST category and had farming (70.00%) as their main occupation. Highest percentage of respondents belonged to small size (60.00%) nuclear family (68.00%). 70.00 percent of the respondents had education up to HSLC level and 42.00 percent of the respondents were member of one organization, 92.00 percent of the respondents had marginal land holding, 52.00 percent had katcha house, 58.00 percent and 90.00 percent of respondents had medium level of household and farm assets respectively. More than half (54.00%) of the respondents had regularly watched Television and 96.00 percent had regularly contact with Non Government Organization (NGO) and Village Level Extension Worker (VLEW). Only 60.00% of the respondent attended training programme regularly on different agriculture related areas. It was further revealed that majority (67.00%) of the respondents was from medium socio economic status. Data also revealed that 68.00 percent of the respondent had medium level of knowledge and 74.00 percent of respondents had favorable attitude on herbal medicinal plants. Maximum number of respondents i.e. 98.00 percent respondents had practice different herbal medicinal plants in their daily life. The findings also revealed that lack of knowledge of identification and not standardize doses intake of herbal medicinal plants is the very familiar problem among all respondents.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810156953
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherAAU, Jorhaten_US
dc.subHome Scienceen_US
dc.themeKNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES OF RURAL WOMEN IN JORHAT DISTRICT OF ASSAM REGARDING HERBAL MEDICINAL PLANTSen_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleKNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES OF RURAL WOMEN IN JORHAT DISTRICT OF ASSAM REGARDING HERBAL MEDICINAL PLANTSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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