Adoption of home science practices disseminated under Rural Awareness Work Experience (RAWE)
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2020
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
Abstract
The present investigation was conducted to assess the adoption status of home science
practices disseminated under Rural work experience and to indentify the various factors
affecting adoption and non adoption of these practices. The study was conducted in
purposively selected Rauwal, Sidhwan Kalan, Talwandi Khurd and Sarabha villages of
Ludhiana district, where RAWE programme was conducted during the year 2013-14 to 2016-
17. From each village, thirty rural women who were exposed to home science practices
during RAWE were randomly selected. Thus, a total of 120 respondents constituted the
sample of the study. Data were collected through a well structured and pre tested interview
schedule. The study reported that majority of the respondents had low level of print media
exposure and medium level of electronic and social media exposure. Findings revealed that
majority of the respondents adopted ‘care and storage practices of clothing’, ‘energy saving
techniques’, ‘ Fruits and vegetable preservation’ and ‘ care during pregnancy’ practices under
different disciplines. However, lowest adoption was found for the practices of ‘stain removal’,
‘consumer education’, ‘therapeutic diet plan’ and ‘Awareness/counselling’. Large number of
respondents reported ‘personal interest’ and ‘saves resources’ as the major factors affecting
adoption. Whereas, lack of interest and resources leads to non adoption. The results also
showed that age of the respondent was negatively and significantly associated with the extent
of adoption. Practices should be need based and cost effective and students should be trained
properly before RAWE were the major suggestions given by the respondents for
improvement in RAWE programme.