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{"title":"Labour Shortage Effects on Stress Level of Employees in Oyo State Agricultural Development Programme (OYSADEP)","authors":"Adeogun Stephen Oluseun","doi":"10.18765/JES.V32I2.6608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18765/JES.V32I2.6608","url":null,"abstract":"Stress occurs when the demands placed on employees in an organization outweigh their technical, physical, educational and professional capabilities to meet such demands. If this goes unchecked, it can affect the health and job performance of employees and the overall objective of organziation may become unattainable.This study was conducted to assess the effects of labour shortage on stress level of employees in OYSADEP, Oyo State. Out of the four zones in Oyo State, two zones namelyOgbomosho and Ibadan/Ibarapa zones were randomly selected. The total population of employees in two zones was 74 which constituted the sample for the study. Data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage and means while inferential statistics such as Chi-square and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used to analyze the data. The result indicated that more than half (51.4%) of the employees were male, 85.1% were married with a mean age of 41 years. Most of the employees (91.9%) had tertiary education with 5 years and above years of experience. The results indicated the problem associated with labour shortage. Rewards of employees were low as compared to the risk of the \u0000job they were doing ( =3.35), the limited number of employees were being stressed due to labour shortage ( =3.01), and inadequate strength of staff was affecting the success of the organization ( =2.85). The result also reveals the stress level of employees. Stress effect on staff was affecting their work ( =2.80) and the nature of their job was such that they desired to quit if they had alternative ( =2.70). Chi-square analysis revealed that only working experience (?2=11.740, df=4, P less than 0.05) had a significant relationship with employees stress level. There was also a significant correlation between employees perception of labour shortage and their stress level. The study concluded that due to the problem of labour shortage in OYSADEP the stress associated with the job was high as compared to the pay. It is therefore recommended that management of OYSADEP should employ more staff to reduce the stress on the existing employees of the organization.","PeriodicalId":207752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of extension systems","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124881249","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":"KITCHEN GARDENING - A Countenance Study of Urban Inhabitants","authors":"N. Hassan","doi":"10.18765/JES.V32I2.6607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18765/JES.V32I2.6607","url":null,"abstract":"Growing awareness of organic farming has prompted city dwellers to move towards agriculture. Efforts are being made by the State horticulture department to promote kitchen gardening and terrace gardens for urban and semi urban residents. This pilot study examined the causals of people attracted towards kitchen garden and reasons for moving towards organic products. This Study also denotes the nature of information sources used by the Kitchen Gardeners in acquiring agriculture related information. It is seen that most of the Gardeners received information from private visual media.","PeriodicalId":207752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of extension systems","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121597703","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":"INDOORS GARDENING - Case Reviews","authors":"O. S. Verma","doi":"10.18765/JES.V32I2.6606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18765/JES.V32I2.6606","url":null,"abstract":"Thanks to the space constraint, city homes can be docked with some live indoor plants and flowers. They add up not only to large amount of fresh oxygen but also absorbs Carbon Dioxide thus purifying the surrounding environment. Creepers like money plant enhanced the aura of the rooms. It is a myth that creepers damage the walls. In UK and China, people widely use Indian Ivy. It not only cools the building but also makes the building look so beautiful. Herbs like Tulsi busts the stress and its essential oils freshen up the mood. Different herbs like Italian Basic, Ajwain, Spearmint, Pudina, and Sri Lanka Palak are strong smelling plants that help in distracting insects and pests. Flowers like Roses enhance natural beauty and spread up fragrance to the house all around. Butterflies create a soothing havan as it attracts bees and birds. Bhindi, Corn, Chawli and flowering plants create a cross pollination. Fruits bring immense rewards both literal and emotional. Bonsai trees and shrubs make interiors beautiful and develop esthetical sharp appeal. Indoor gardening is also therapeutic as it is immensely relaxing. Plants heal the mind and the body. Little greenery in drawing room enables any one to feel like to be in the midst of forest or wilderness. Green rooftop is a panacia in this age of global warming. On a broaden perspective, Gardening is thus brewing in urban households and has become a movement no longer restricted to hinterlands. Let us examine what others say.","PeriodicalId":207752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of extension systems","volume":"2009 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125597935","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":"Adoption of potato production technologies by the farmers in relation to their socio-economic profiles","authors":"D. Mohapatra, A. P. Kanungo","doi":"10.18765/JES.V32I2.6604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18765/JES.V32I2.6604","url":null,"abstract":"A number of recommended production techniques and practices do not reach the farmers’ fields and those carried to the farmers get considerably distorted or often adopted partially resulting in poor yield. In this context, an attempt was made to study the extent of adoption of potato production technologies by the farmers in relation to their socio-economic profiles. The present study was conducted in Nimapada and Pipili blocks of Puri district of Odisha. Both purposive and random sampling techniques were followed in the study. A total number of 100 potato farmers were selected randomly as respondents. The study revealed that: age, membership of social organizations, extent of social contact, cosmopoliteness, media exposure, housing pattern and scientific aspirations of the respondent-farmers had higher consistency than their other socio-economic variables. The Potato farmers had highest adoption gap of 30.33 percent in case of use of proper potato varieties. Majority i.e. 68 percent of the respondents came under medium, followed by 23 percent low and 9 percent high adoption level categories. A good number of socio-economic variables such as: cosmopoliteness, media exposure, housing pattern, land holding size, occupation, farm power possession, annual income, and scientific aspirations had very significant impact on the adoption level of the farmers regarding various production related technologies of potato cultivation.","PeriodicalId":207752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of extension systems","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121588427","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":"INCOME GENERATION THROUGH VARIOUS ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES BY RURAL WOMEN","authors":"P. Dayya, Vishakha Bansal","doi":"10.18765/JES.V32I2.6605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18765/JES.V32I2.6605","url":null,"abstract":"The study was conducted in Gogunda and Kherwara panchayat samities of Udaipur district of Rajasthan. From each panchayat samiti, two villages where the entrepreneurial activities were promoted by the NGOs during last five years were included in the study. The sample consisted of randomly selected 100 rural women. The study found that average net profit earned from vegetable production, flower cultivation, goat rearing and dairy enterprise was INR 15733, INR17,300, INR 28200 and INR 26100 respectively. In beauty parlour and stitching enterprise, average income was at INR20,524 and INR 14030 per year.","PeriodicalId":207752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of extension systems","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115554998","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":"Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt ‘Just and Equitable’ Land Expropriation in North West Province, South Africa","authors":"K. S. Sekoto, O. Oladele","doi":"10.18765/JES.V32I2.6609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18765/JES.V32I2.6609","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines farmers willingness to adopt ‘just and equitable’ compensation principle for land expropriation. A large sampling size technique of n ≥ 30 was used to select One hundred and seventy six (176 commercial farmers) in the North West Province. The instrument used for data collection was a structured and pre-tested questionnaire. The data were analyzed using frequencies, mean, percentages, and Probit Regression. The results showed that majority of commercial farmers had high school educational level, males, farm size ranging from 100 – 1000 hectares. The results of the probit model reveal that participation in organization (t = 1.718, p less than 0.10), perception of policy (t = 3.596, p less than 0.01), educational level (t = -4.772, p less than 0.01), household head (t = -1.749, p less than 0.10), farm size (t = 14.042, p less than 0.01), income from maize (t = -2.611, p less than 0.05), income from groundnuts (t = -1.668, p less than 0.10), income from wheat (t = -1.749, p less than 0.10), income from tobacco (t = -2.481, p less than 0.05), friends / relatives (t = -2.243, p less than 0.05), extension service (t = -3.552, p less than 0.01), farmer organizations (t = -3.626, p less than 0.01), Agricultural Research Council (t = 5.985, p less than 0.01), income from broilers (t = 2.504, p less than 0.05) and other mass media (t = -1.660, p less than 0.10) showed a significantly positive relationship with farmers willingness to adopt ‘just and equitable’ compensation principle for land expropriation.","PeriodicalId":207752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of extension systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125376108","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":"COMMUNITY RADIO IN EMPOWERING FARM WOMEN THROUGH MUSHROOM PRODUCTION","authors":"B. Rani","doi":"10.18765/jes.v32i2.6603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18765/jes.v32i2.6603","url":null,"abstract":"Barh community radio station was established in 2011 at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Barh, Patna to broadcast programmes on different issues of agriculture and allied sectors, health, hygiene and nutrition for three hours daily. Growing mushroom on agriculture byproducts is a handy enterprise, low initial investment, self employment creating, supplementary income generating, and nutritious food giving to the family. On listening to the talks on Radio, farm women visited KVK to enquire about mushroom production and after going through training, 55 women started oyster mushroom production at their hut for their own consumption and selling the surplus in their villages. Among them, 35 farm women started producing on medium scale to earn money by selling the produce in the local market. A small group of 10 farm women started producing mushroom at commercial scale and consulted vegetable shops and even hotels in nearby city for regular supply. This turn resulted in their financial empowerment. The large scale production of mushroom earned more than 1.25 lakh per woman in one season. These results clearly indicate that there is an impact of radio in empowering farm women.","PeriodicalId":207752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of extension systems","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129313716","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":"Impediments Faced By Women SHGs under Integrated Watershed Management Programme","authors":"M. Bariya, P. Kanani, S. Parmar","doi":"10.18765/JES.V32I1.10949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18765/JES.V32I1.10949","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was an attempt to identify the impediments faced by SHGs under Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP). A total of 90 women self help group members as respondents were selected from Amreli district of Gujarat. The study findings revealed that the self help group women mainly encountered with the lack of knowledge in record maintenance. Their dependency on family male member was another impediment in solving money problems. Handling of bank account in which SHG Women were unaware of the rules has continuation of project and its expansion in other villages by establishing new SHG and addition of new activities have been largely suggested by most SHG-women. Although they were found not competent in performing bank formalities, yet their co-ordination among members and interpersonal trust were intact. Internal loaning and loaning through bank, clashes in their loan taking time, lack of time for meeting, dependency on members of family, and lack of marketing information needed major reforms as suggested by SHG members.","PeriodicalId":207752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of extension systems","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127581447","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":"ICT Productivity in Agriculture","authors":"A. Chhetri","doi":"10.18765/JES.V32I1.10948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18765/JES.V32I1.10948","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes about how to apply information and communication technologies (ICTs) to solve agricultural problems. It presents research findings on Agriculture ICT (AgICT) impact on the agricultural performance. It talks about how ICT enhances extension services by applying tools such as mobile phone, SMS, call centres, etc. This papers presents some research findings on the ICT productivity stating that farmers using AgICT in farming activities have increased 5.91 % of their farm productivity compared to the immediate past year while farmers having no exposure to AgICT increased only 3.90% of farm productivity. This can apparently be assumed that the AgICT alone can contribute 2.01% increase in farm productivity.","PeriodicalId":207752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of extension systems","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121091978","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":"INFORMATION NEEDS OF FARM WOMEN OF UTTARAKHAND","authors":"Arpita Sharma","doi":"10.18765/jes.v32i1.10947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18765/jes.v32i1.10947","url":null,"abstract":"Farm women in Uttarakhand play an important role in managing different kinds of farming and home affairs. Information for women involved in an enterprise is important to understand the production process and the economics of production. A sample of 100 farm women was selected using Simple Random Sampling technique. The survey research design was used for data collection. Data were also collected through interview schedule. Data were analyzed using quantitative approaches. Results show that the information needs of farm women are mostly occupation driven. Farm women were found to have a need for information about dairy farming as also for home management. Most of the farm women depend on the friends, husband, neighbors and other native sources like local leaders and educated people for their information needs. Thus, their primary and most important sources of information are friends, husband, neighbors and other native sources.","PeriodicalId":207752,"journal":{"name":"Journal of extension systems","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126182414","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}