S. Niranjan, D. R. Singh, N. Kumar, Girish Nath Jha, P. Venkatesh, M. S. Nain, B. Krishnakumare
{"title":"Do Information Networks Enhance Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Practices? Evidence from Northern Dry Zone of Karnataka, India","authors":"S. Niranjan, D. R. Singh, N. Kumar, Girish Nath Jha, P. Venkatesh, M. S. Nain, B. Krishnakumare","doi":"10.48165/ijee.2023.59118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59118","url":null,"abstract":"The study aimed to analyze the perception of farmers towards sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) and identify social networks using primary data collected randomly from 300 farmers of the northern dry zone of Karnataka. Five-point Likert scale was used to analyze the perception of farmers towards SAPs and open-source software named “Gephi” was used to map farmers’ social networks. Farmers’ perceptions towards SAPs were poor and only one in eight respondents reported high perception towards SAPs. Comparatively, large farmers had better perception towards SAPs and had better access to capacity building (extension contact and farm events) than the small and marginal farmers. Social capital (neighbor, progressive and relative farmers) had also played an important role in spreading SAPs related information among the farmers. However, local input dealers failed to be key informants and hardly disseminated information regarding SAPs. Government extension officials were the dominant informants on SAPs. Given the low level of adoption of SAPs in the study area, exploiting the potential of ICTs, training local input dealers, capacity building of the farmers and effective utilization of social capital are the suggested policy options to enhance the adoption of SAPs.","PeriodicalId":13471,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Extension Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83203758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Descriptive Analysis of Attitude Towards Students READY Programme","authors":"Banwari Lal, R. Rani, Sheetal K, Sunil Kumar","doi":"10.48165/ijee.2023.59213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59213","url":null,"abstract":"The 5th deans committee of ICAR has framed a comprehensive student READY programme syllabus for all of the agricultural and allied disciplines. It is a crucial component of the four-year bachelor’s degree programme in agriculture offered by all colleges. It shows a lot of promise for producing better agricultural technocrats with a high degree of expertise combined with a contemporary approach and improved managerial abilities. This study was done to find out how students felt about the Student READY programme and how it related to the student’s character attributes. The three collage of agriculture university Jodhpur i.e. Jodhpur, Nagaur, and Sumerpur were purposively selected and data were collected from 140 undergraduate students. The results indicated that most students have a positive opinion of the Student READY programme and that there is a strong correlation between the programme and personal characteristics. The study’s findings indicate that this program improved people’s capacity for interpersonal and professional problem solving as well as their communication and personality development.","PeriodicalId":13471,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Extension Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81385414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Gowda, R. Rana, Partha Prathim Pal, S. Dubey, Amrendra Kumar, M. Meena, Randhir Singh, R. Bordoloi, A. Bhaskaran, A. A. Raut, T. Rajesh, B. Kumar, K. Thimmappa
{"title":"Economic Performance of Enterprises Promoted under ARYA and Relationship with Entrepreneurial Competencies","authors":"M. Gowda, R. Rana, Partha Prathim Pal, S. Dubey, Amrendra Kumar, M. Meena, Randhir Singh, R. Bordoloi, A. Bhaskaran, A. A. Raut, T. Rajesh, B. Kumar, K. Thimmappa","doi":"10.48165/ijee.2023.59203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59203","url":null,"abstract":"Attracting and retaining youth in agriculture (ARYA) is a national programme of Indian Council of Agricultural Research implemented through Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) since 2016-17. The present investigation was carried out in 2021-22 with a total of 684 rural youth, randomly identified from among the functional units under various enterprises. Among the nine major enterprises promoted under ARYA, performance of poultry units were better in terms of operational duration and total turnover per enterprise despite incurring higher expenditure. Nursery enterprises showed the highest net income per unit and also created maximum assets. On the other hand, benefit-cost ratio was higher in piggery enterprises and per day net income was highest in processing and value addition units. More employment generation was recorded in fish and goat farming enterprises. The results indicated that each of the agri business areas have strengths on different parameters. Besides the choice of enterprises that are locally viable, the entrepreneurial competency of the entrepreneurs was essential to sustain the enterprises. Successful entrepreneurship promotion has the possibilities for attracting and retaining youth in rural areas through technology-supported agribusiness development.","PeriodicalId":13471,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Extension Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82377746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martina Meinam, Sekhar Nath Ojha, P. Ananthan, Arpita Sharma, Teresa Meinam, Y. J. Singh, Shakir Ahmad Mir
{"title":"Attitudes of the Postgraduate Students of Manipur University towards Entrepreneurship","authors":"Martina Meinam, Sekhar Nath Ojha, P. Ananthan, Arpita Sharma, Teresa Meinam, Y. J. Singh, Shakir Ahmad Mir","doi":"10.48165/ijee.2023.59312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59312","url":null,"abstract":"The attitudes of the student were studied using affective, behavioural, and cognitive components during 2020-2021 among the postgraduate students of Manipur University (MU). A structured interview schedule was used and data were collected from 160 respondents using stratified random sampling from five Schools of Studies of the university. Entrepreneurship Attitudes Score of students was found to be ‘0.647’ for the School of Humanities; ‘0.635’ for the School of Human & Environmental Sciences, ‘0.702’ for the School of Social Sciences, ‘0.609’ for the School of Life Sciences; ‘0.677’ for the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. The overall score of students’ attitudes towards entrepreneurship was found to be 0.65, revealing that the majority of the students (58.28%) were moderately favourable towards entrepreneurship. Kruskal-Wallis test was used and found that students of the School of Social Sciences and male students showed higher attitude towards entrepreneurship; 44.14 per cent of the students showed highly favourable towards entrepreneurship. School of Social Science students were found to be more aware of the potential resource and were more aware of different programmers, schemes, ideas and strategies. Such potent and knowledgeable students should be selected and nurtured with proper training, exposure and making them aware of different Government schemes.","PeriodicalId":13471,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Extension Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86709641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constraints Perceived by Dealers and Households for Execution and Adoption of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana","authors":"Bijaylaxmi Behera, Biswajit Mallick","doi":"10.48165/ijee.2023.59331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59331","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the perception of the LPG dealers and households towards Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, the current study was carried out in the Samastipur district of Bihar in 2022. A total of 110 respondents i.e., 100 women households and 10 LPG dealers were taken for the study from 4 villages of 2 blocks under Samastipur district. 21 specific constraints perceived by households and 18 specific constraints perceived by dealers were categorized into 4 broad constraints, viz., social, cultural, economic, and physical constraints. Analysis was performed by using Garrett’s ranking method, and specific constraints were ranked accordingly. Garrett’s mean scores of specific constraints ranged 29.38 to 73.41 for social constraints, 30.15 to 69.03 for cultural constraints, 27.73 to 71.77 for economic constraints, and 29.50 to 70.60 for physical constraints as perceived by households. The mean score of constraints perceived by dealers were 30.4 to 71.3 for social constraints, 31.5 to 73.5 for cultural constraints, 26.5 to 70.5 for economic constraints, and 34.5 to 66.7 for physical constraints. The paper may provides a better insight into the grassroots level constraints for implementation and acceptance of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in rural villages of India.","PeriodicalId":13471,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Extension Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76147921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anil Sidaray Chikkalaki, B. S. Ghanghas, P. Chahal, S. k
{"title":"Scale to Assess the Sustainability of Rice-Wheat Cropping System","authors":"Anil Sidaray Chikkalaki, B. S. Ghanghas, P. Chahal, S. k","doi":"10.48165/ijee.2023.59128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59128","url":null,"abstract":"Rice-Wheat Cropping System (RWCS) is a principle cropping system followed in Indo Gangetic Plains (IGP). Though this monocropping system plays a key role in India’s food sufficiency, it has led to various problems such as soil degradation, groundwater exploitation, environmental damage, yield plateau etc., posing challenge and risk to its sustainability. The scale was developed during 2021-22 to assess the perception level of farmers about the sustainability issues in RWCS. Summated rating scale method by Likert with standardized procedures was used to develop this scale. A total of 54 items were collected and sent to experts for relevancy analysis. Based on the results of relevancy analysis, a schedule consisting of 43 items was used to conduct personally interviewed pre-test. The items were further screened for their differentiating ability and thus, the final scale consisted of 31 items. The scale was found to be valid and reliable as ascertained by content validity and split half test reliability method, respectively. The reliability coefficient of 0.884 indicated the higher internal consistency.","PeriodicalId":13471,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Extension Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78605208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saurabh Tiwari, K. Kadian, H. Meena, M. S. Nain, Sweety Mukherjee, Amandeep Ranjan
{"title":"Farmers’ Awareness of Agricultural Schemes under Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh","authors":"Saurabh Tiwari, K. Kadian, H. Meena, M. S. Nain, Sweety Mukherjee, Amandeep Ranjan","doi":"10.48165/ijee.2023.59218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59218","url":null,"abstract":"The study was conducted to analyse the effect of Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) on farmers’ awareness of different agricultural schemes during 2021. The centre and state government-sponsored schemes under the SAGY were taken into consideration. As per the need of farmers, 25 schemes were included as the indicator for awareness in the study. The investigation was carried out in two blocks of the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh state. A significant difference was seen in awareness among the farmers of model and non model villages. Among crop-based schemes, almost 70 per cent of farmers of model villages were aware of the soil health card followed by Paramparagat Krishi Vikash Yojana (66%) and financial assistance for improved seeds (65%). Sixty percent of farmers of model villages were aware of the artificial insemination of animals scheme which was highest followed by the national livestock mission (18.67%). In model villages, the majority of the farmers were in the category of high and medium levels of awareness. Only 14.67 per cent of farmers were in the category of low level of awareness but from the non-model villages, the majority of farmers were in the category of low level of awareness.","PeriodicalId":13471,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Extension Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88834275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Gupta, M. S. Nain, Rashmi Singh, J. Mishra, Anshu Lata
{"title":"Exploring the Entrepreneurial Climate and Attributes of Agripreneurs and its Determinants","authors":"S. Gupta, M. S. Nain, Rashmi Singh, J. Mishra, Anshu Lata","doi":"10.48165/ijee.2023.59220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59220","url":null,"abstract":"The entrepreneurial climate is a set of tangible and intangible factors that shape and create a climate for agripreneurship in a region or area. An attitude scale was developed with 44 items (36 items positive and 8 negatives) during 2022. It was administered to 120 agripreneurs of Uttar Pradesh and it was found that the majority of the factors namely institutional, psychological, cognitive, sociological, economical, and managerial were contributing significantly to creating and shaping the entrepreneurial climate. Among these major factors, managerial factors were contributing most prominently with the highest total mean score of 2.83. The possible relation between socio-personal, socio-psychological, and entrepreneurial variables was explored considering the various dimensions of entrepreneurial climate as dependent variables. It was found that the majority of characteristics was associated with entrepreneurial climate and was able to define to the extent of 62.30 per cent.","PeriodicalId":13471,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Extension Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91409820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Netrapal Malik, Manoj Kumar Singh, Ashok Kumar, M. S. Nain, P. Vashishtha
{"title":"Farmers’ Readiness for Organic Farming: A Study of Aligarh District in Uttar Pradesh","authors":"Netrapal Malik, Manoj Kumar Singh, Ashok Kumar, M. S. Nain, P. Vashishtha","doi":"10.48165/ijee.2023.59109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59109","url":null,"abstract":"The study was conducted in the purposively selected Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh to assess the readiness of farmers for organic farming. The readiness of the farmers for organic farming was perceived in terms of conducive agricultural profile, a favorable attitude, sufficient knowledge and availability of required manpower and inputs for organic farming. The sample size of the study was 240 farmers spreading in twelve villages over six blocks of the district. Animal husbandry with agriculture, growing of pulses, millets, sesbania (for green manuring) and having neem trees (Azadirachta indica) were found already existing farm practices building supporting ground for the organic farming. Overall farmers were having favourable attitude towards organic farming. But, attitude towards the implementation aspect of organic farming was not as strong as towards impact on the environment and soil health, and economic benefits of organic farming. Farmers knew cultural practices related aspects of organic farming but lacking in knowledge regarding trap crops and bio-agents. There is a need to provide institutional support in creating awareness in technological advancement of organic farming, diversification of cereal based cropping system with the inclusion of leguminous crops and in increasing accessibility of off-farm organic inputs.","PeriodicalId":13471,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Extension Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87201092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bhagya Vijayan, M. S. Nain, Rashmi Singh, N. V. Kumbhare, S. Kademani
{"title":"Knowledge Test for Extension Personnel on Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana","authors":"Bhagya Vijayan, M. S. Nain, Rashmi Singh, N. V. Kumbhare, S. Kademani","doi":"10.48165/ijee.2023.59127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2023.59127","url":null,"abstract":"Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana is one of the massive agriculture development pan Indian programmes unleashed by Government of India requiring collective effort in unison from different agricultural line departments. The standard operating procedures and other nitty gritties of the programme should be clear to the department personnel implementing the same for its efficient reach. The study attempted to develop a Knowledge test comprising 21 items to measure knowledge level of Extension Personnel on Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana during 2021-2022. The knowledge test was pretested on 30 extension personnel from other than the study area. The items with difficulty index ranging from 0.2 to 0.8, discrimination index above 0.1 and point biserial correlation which was significant at 5% level of significance were selected. The reliability of the test was measured by using split half method and was found to be 0.8. Eventually, 21 items were selected for the Knowledge test for extension personnel on Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana.","PeriodicalId":13471,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Extension Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87730346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}