{"title":"DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEST TO MEASURE KNOWLEDGE OF DAIRY FARMERS REGARDING DEWORMING AND VACCINATION IN BUFFALO","authors":"B. M. Rathavi, M. R. Patel, M. Maheswaran","doi":"10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.1.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.1.0025","url":null,"abstract":"India has the world’s highest livestock population Livestock rearing is an integral part of agriculture in India as well as many developing countries since centuries. The Indian dairy industry has made remarkable progress in the last three decades with unprecedented growth in milk production. Cattle and buffalo producing milk which is the largest agricultural commodity play a significant role in the Indian economy. For understanding the knowledge of dairy farmers regarding deworming and vaccination in buffalo, knowledge test was developed. There were total 40 items in final knowledge test to measure the level of knowledge of dairy farmers regarding deworming and vaccination in buffalo after working out ‘Index of item difficulty’, ‘Index of item discrimination’ and ‘Index of item validity. The test was found to be reliable (0.88) and valid.","PeriodicalId":284553,"journal":{"name":"Gujarat Journal of Extension Education","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132903777","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":"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROFILE CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN SHG MEMBERS AND THEIR EMPOWERMENT THROUGH TNCDW","authors":"P. Vaishnavi, P. Ramesh","doi":"10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.2.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.2.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Women’s empowerment is essential to ensuring that they have equal access to opportunities and that their rights are properly respected. This is accomplished by enhancing and expanding women’s social, economic, political, and legal existence. The present study was conducted in Cuddalore Block of Cuddalore District. Proportionate random sampling procedure was applied to select 120 respondents. They were the members of women Self Help Groups of Mahalir Thittam project under the organizational efforts taken by Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women (TNCDW) to explore the relationships between profile characteristics of women SHG members and their empowerment. From the study it was found that SHGs have contributed significantly to the empowerment of women. Out of thirteen variables, six variables viz., educational status, mass media exposure, information sharing behavior, decision making behavior, self-confidence and awareness on women development programmes were found to have positive and significant relationship with the empowerment of women. SHG member’s personal traits as well as group and social activities were the major determinants of empowerment.","PeriodicalId":284553,"journal":{"name":"Gujarat Journal of Extension Education","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131094370","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":"PERCEPTION OF TRIBAL FARM MEN AND WOMEN TOWARDS AGRICULTURE","authors":"Pallabi Bora, P. Mishra, Pallabi Das","doi":"10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.1.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.1.0020","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was undertaken during October 2021 to November 2022. Four tribal dominated districts of Assam were purposively selected from four Agro climatic zones to analyze the perception of tribal men and women farmers towards agriculture. Three hundred and twenty respondents consisting of both tribal men and women farmers of a household constitute the final sample size of the present study. Measurement of perception was done by including some relevant statements which were grouped into five broad areas namely: Economic dimension, Social dimension, Technology dimension, Work environment dimension and other dimension. A total of 33 statements were taken and the responses were obtained in a five-point continuum of agreement representing ‘Strongly agree’ ‘Agree’, ‘Undecided’, ‘Disagree’ and ‘Strongly disagree’ assigning a score of 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 respectively for the positive statements and reverse scoring pattern for the negative statements. The results revealed that there existed significant differences in the perception between men and women respondents. Less than two third (64.38%) number of women respondents had medium to high level of perception while in men, it was observed that 51.88% belonged to the medium level towards agriculture. The finding of the study will be helpful to the extension agency, policymaker and administrators in developing appropriate extension strategy for the tribal farming community to develop more favorable perception towards agriculture for its sustainability.","PeriodicalId":284553,"journal":{"name":"Gujarat Journal of Extension Education","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133678047","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":"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXTENT OF ADOPTION OF JUTE HYV AND SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FARMERS","authors":"Kishore Saikia, C. Deka","doi":"10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.2.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.2.0016","url":null,"abstract":"The Assam Agricultural University, in collaboration with RARS, Shillongani, has introduced high yielding varieties (HYV) of jute to farmers to double their incomes. So, this study was carried out to ascertain the relationship between extent of adoption of High Yielding Jute Verities and their associated practices with Social Economic and Psychological characteristics of the farmers of Nagaon District. Thus, Nagaon sub-division was purposively selected for the study with a dependent variable ‘Extent of Adoption’ and 16 independent variables categorized in different factors viz. socio-economic, personal, communication, and socio-psychological etc. 120 farmers were selected for the study. Interviews were conducted using a pretested schedule, and data was analysed by Chi-Square test, Karl Pearson’ Co-efficient of Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis. The study revealed that operational land holding, area under jute crop, annual income, extension contact, economic motivation and knowledge level on HYV jute cultivation were found positive and significant relationship with the extent of adoption and accordingly educational level, family type, farming experience, farm machinery and equipment’s, training exposure of the farmers had significant association with extent of adoption of HYV jute varieties. Together, the 16 variables contributed 54.20 % to variation in extent of adoption of high yielding jute varieties.","PeriodicalId":284553,"journal":{"name":"Gujarat Journal of Extension Education","volume":"46 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116311797","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":"PERCEPTION OF Bt.COTTON GROWERS REGARDING ECO-FRIENDLY FARMING PRACTICES","authors":"Dharmik D. Acharya, A. R. Makwan","doi":"10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.2.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.2.0002","url":null,"abstract":"The study aimed to assess the perception of Bt. cotton growers on eco-friendly farming practices with their various components. The present investigation was undertaken in Botad district of Gujarat state, as it comes under the jurisdiction of Anand Agricultural University, Anand, with a sample size of 160Bt. cotton growers who were growing cotton in their field for 5 years. The Bt. cotton growers were interviewed personally by well a structured and pre-tested interview schedule. Suitable statistical techniques were used to analyse the collected data. From the study, it was found that a majority of Bt. Cotton growers had a medium to low level of the overall perception of eco-friendly farming practices.","PeriodicalId":284553,"journal":{"name":"Gujarat Journal of Extension Education","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124517865","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 RECOMMENDED GROUNDNUT PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY BY THE GROUNDNUT GROWERS","authors":"Swati N. Jalu, M. Bariya, Bindu Christian","doi":"10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.1.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.1.0017","url":null,"abstract":"The study was conducted in Saurashtra region of Gujarat State. A multistage, purposive and random sampling technique was used for the study. Out of eleven district of Saurashtra region, total five districts were selected purposively where cluster frontline demonstration on groundnut crop under National Mission on Oilseed and Oil palm (NMOOP) was conducted by KVKs during last two years. Five districts of Saurashtra region were selected for the study. Two talukas from each selected districts were selected purposively where cluster frontline demonstrations are conducted by the KVKs during last two years. Thus, total 10 talukas were selected for the study. Villages from each taluka were selected purposively where maximum cluster frontline demonstrations are conducted by KVKs. Thus, total 16 villages were selected purposively. The random sampling technique was used for the selection of the respondents. 80 demonstrator and 80 non-demonstrator farmers were selected randomly from selected village for comparative study. Thus total 160 respondents were selected for this study. The data were classified, tabulated and analyzed with the help of frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation and Z value. The analysis indicated that the independent sample ‘Z’ test showed that there was significant difference in the mean values of demonstrator and non-demonstrator groundnut growers in case of adoption of recommended groundnut production technology.","PeriodicalId":284553,"journal":{"name":"Gujarat Journal of Extension Education","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131689214","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}
Suhas K. Panke, V. A. Deshmukh, Krushna M. Kardile
{"title":"AWARENESS OF AGRO INPUT DEALERS ABOUT INSECTICIDE LABEL CLAIMS","authors":"Suhas K. Panke, V. A. Deshmukh, Krushna M. Kardile","doi":"10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.2.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.2.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Insecticide label claims are important sources of information for the farmers and the agro input dealers who sell them. They provide information about the active ingredients, mode of action, target pests, dosage, application method, safety precautions and environmental impact of the insecticides. However, the awareness level of the agro input dealers about these label claims is not well known. This study aimed to assess the awareness level of 120 agro-input dealers in Beed district of Maharashtra state, India, about the insecticide label claims and their toxicity labels. The study also examined the relationship between the profile of the agro input dealers and their awareness level, and identified the constraints and suggestions of the agro-input dealers regarding the insecticide label claims. The study used a structured questionnaire to collect data from the respondents through personal interview method. The data were analysed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and correlation coefficient. The results showed that the majority of the agro-input dealers had low to medium level of awareness about the insecticide label claims and their toxicity labels. The profile variables such as age, education, experience, training and membership in association had significant positive correlation with their awareness level. The major constraints faced by the agro input dealers were lack of training, inadequate display of label claims, complex language of label claims and low literacy level of farmers. The major suggestions given by the agro input dealers were to provide regular training, simplify the language of label claims, increase the font size and colour contrast of label claims and educate the farmers about the importance of label claims.","PeriodicalId":284553,"journal":{"name":"Gujarat Journal of Extension Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131935191","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":"CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF TRIBAL FARMERS WITH KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF IMPROVED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF AJWAIN","authors":"Surbhi Jangir, B. S. Badhala, Rekha Badhala","doi":"10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.2.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.2.0011","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was conducted in Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan with the objective of correlational analysis of socio-demographic profile of tribal farmers with knowledge and adoption of improved production technology of Ajwain. 5 villages from Choti sadari tehsil of Pratapgarh were selected randomly. From each of these selected villages 13 tribal farmers were selected randomly and a sample total of 65 Tribal farmers were selected. The data from these tribal farmers was collected using a well-structured and pre tested interview schedule during the year 2022. The ex-post facto research design of social science was used for the present investigation. On correlation analysis of socio-demographic profile of tribal farmers with knowledge level, it was found that age, education, size of land holding, family type, annual income and social participation were found to be positive and highly significant relationship (p<0.01) and extension contacts was found positive significant (p<0.05) with knowledge. Findings regarding relationship between adoption of improved production technology of Ajwain shown that, education, family type, annual income and social participation positive and significant correlation coefficient (p<0.01) and age, size of land holding and extension contacts was found positive significant (p<0.05) with extent of adoption of improved production technology of Ajwain.","PeriodicalId":284553,"journal":{"name":"Gujarat Journal of Extension Education","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126534453","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":"TECHNOLOGICAL GAP AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS OF MUSKMELON GROWERS IN RECOMMENDED MUSKMELON PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY","authors":"T. L. Kachchhava, J. K. Patel, H. Parmar","doi":"10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.1.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.1.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Muskmelon is gaining lot of importance due to its more remuneration in short crop cycle, high production potential with high nutritive value, taste, delicacy and also its suitability for cultivation under rain fed and irrigated condition throughout the year. Total 150 muskmelon growers were selected from fifteen villages belongs to Deesa, Dantiwada and Palanpur talukas of Banaskantha district of Gujarat state. The independent variable viz., education, land holding, annual income, social participation, extension participation, innovativeness and market orientation had negative and significant correlation with overall technological gap in muskmelon production technology. While, sources of information and level of knowledge had negative and highly significant correlation with overall technological gap in muskmelon production technology. Whereas, age had positive and significant correlation with overall technological gap and cropping pattern had positive and non-significant correlation with overall technological gap in muskmelon production technology. It revealed that the high technological gap was observed in recommended variety was 92.67 per cent followed by seed rate 76.67 per cent, spacing 70.67 per cent, plant protection 69.33 per cent and chemical fertilizer 64.67 per cent, the overall technological gap indicates that nearly two third (65.33%) muskmelon growers had medium technological gap followed by 22.67 per cent and 12.00 per cent had high and low technological gap in muskmelon cultivation technology, respectively.","PeriodicalId":284553,"journal":{"name":"Gujarat Journal of Extension Education","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125748565","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":"FACTOR ASSOCIATED WITH ATTITUDE OF FARMERS TOWARDS ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY","authors":"Ravikumar Chaudhari, J. B. Patel, J. K. Patel","doi":"10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.1.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2023.35.1.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Anand Agricultural University is one of the premier agricultural universities in India with the aim of providing educational, research, and extension support to the farming community. The university aims to enhance the prosperity of rural society through scientific knowledge and innovation. The study was conducted within the jurisdiction of AAU with a sample size of 240 farmers, found that majority of the farmers (79.58 per cent) had a favorable to strongly favorable attitude towards the university and all categories of farmers had identical attitudes towards Anand Agricultural University which implies that AAU has made significant contribution for the welfare of farmers since its inceptions.","PeriodicalId":284553,"journal":{"name":"Gujarat Journal of Extension Education","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133087623","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}