Sankangoudar, SurekhaPatil, Shivaleela P.2021-10-032021-10-032016-06https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810176563The study was undertaken in the year 2015-2016 in Belgum, Dharwad and Haveri districts of Northern Karnataka with the sample size of 120 rural women (SHG members) to know their knowledge level, extent of adoption, problems in adoption and information needs of rural women about home science technologies. Majority of rural women had medium level of knowledge with respect to developmental mile stones and stimulating play materials (55.00 %), importance of food and food pyramid (54.16 %), consumer education and standard signs (36.66 %) and stain removal (48.33 %). Higher per cent of rural women had medium level of adoption with respect to developmental mile stones and stimulating play materials (45.83 %), importance of food and food pyramid (45.00 %), consumer education and standard signs (43.33 %) and stain removal (45.00 %). Results showed that regarding adoption of home science technologies for all the technologies under study 43-45 per cent of women belonged to the medium category of adoption. Majority of rural women expressed the problems on expensive to purchase sophisticated toys, lack of storage facilities for perishable food, non- availability of fruits and vegetables in local market, difficulty in understanding the signs and symbols used on products and lack of time respectively. Regarding information needs, most of the rural women expressed the information needs on agarbatti making, followed by soap powder making, value addition to food products, marketing of food products, decorative items and mending and repairing of cloths, clothing construction respectively.EnglishThesis