Feasibility of vermicomposting as an enterprise for rural women
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Date
2012
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CCSHAU
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For assessing the feasibility of vermicomposting for rural women, two blocks namely Hisar-I and Hisar-
II of Hisar district of Haryana state were selected randomly. Out of the selected blocks, two villages namely
Harikot and Tokas patan were selected at random. A sample of 100 rural women i.e. 50 from each village was
drawn and 30 women i.e. 15 from each selected village were selected who were interested in having training on
vermicomposting. Various socio-personal, economic, psychological and communication variables constituted the
independent variables and knowledge, attitude, skill and symbolic adoption constituted the dependent variables for
the study. Data were collected with the help of pre-tested structured interview schedule. The inferences were
drawn on the basis of frequency, percentages, paired ‘t’ test, weighted mean score, impact assessment index and
correlation.
The findings of the study revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to younger age group, were
illiterate, married, having nuclear family, had farming as their main occupation and belonged to middle caste
having annual income between 40,001-60,000 possessing marginal with negligible social participation, owning
mixed type of houses and small herd size. Most of the respondents had medium change proneness, high economic
motivation and low risk orientation. Intra family decisions were taken mostly by husband alone while
entrepreneurial decisions were taken jointly by most of the respondents. Majority of the respondents had low mass
media exposure.
Awareness of rural women regarding vermicomposting was very low at pre-exposure stage but
awareness was very high at post-exposure stage. Sufficient gain in knowledge and change in attitude was recorded
for all the sub-components of vermicomposting after exposure to training which was highly significant at 0.05 per
cent level of significance. Impact assessment of vermicomposting training was found to be of moderate level. Most
of the respondents had acquired medium skills after exposure to training. Majority of respondents had high
symbolic adoption and were willing to adopt vermicomposting with somewhat difficulty and had high overall
acceptability. Most of the respondents perceived marketing and economic constraints at 1st and 2nd rank. No
significant relationship of independent variables with dependent variables was recorded.
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