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Das, Manju Dutta
- Involvement of Apatani Women of Arunachal Pradesh in Farm and Home Activities
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1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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International Journal of Home Science Extension and Communication Management, Vol 1, No 2 (2014), Pagination: 51-56Abstract
The present investigation was undertaken to study the involvement of Apatani women of Arunachal Pradesh in farm and home activities with the objective to study the selected socio-personal characteristics of Apatani women of Arunachal Pradesh and to identify the extent of involvement of Apatani women in selected farm and home activities. The study was conducted in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh. Four villages were selected for the present study. Data were collected with the help of interview schedule. Statistical technique viz., frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation and coefficient correlation were used for analyzing the data. The study revealed that majority of the respondents were within the age group of 30-40, belonged to Hindu religion were mostly illiterate, married, having nuclear family and member of one organization. Observations revealed that all the respondents independently participated in sowing of seed, nursery raising, leveling of field, weeding, gap filing and application of organic manure. The findings revealed that correlation between extent of participation in farm activities and land holding was negative and significant. While relationship between extent of participation in home activities with family size was positive and significantt. The mass media exposure and occupation of the family had positive and significant relationship with extent of participation in decision making pattern in home activities. The correlation between extent of participation in farm activities and land holding was negative and significant while relationship between extent of participation in home activities with family size was positive and significant.Keywords
Involvement, Apatani Women, Farm, Home Activities.Full Text
- A Study on Extent of Involvement of Rural Women in Agro Based Enterprises
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1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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International Journal of Home Science Extension and Communication Management, Vol 3, No 2 (2016), Pagination: 72-77Abstract
The present study was conducted with 240 rural women who were engaged in both vegetable cultivation and livestock in 24 villages of three agro climatic zones of Assam, to know the extent of involvement of rural women in vegetable cultivation and livestock rearing. Data were collected personally by interview method. The findings revealed that majority of rural women had high involvement in vegetable cultivation and livestock rearing followed by medium and low involvement. The result of the study showed that the involvement of rural women in vegetable cultivation was significantly and positively related with marital status but not with age, caste, education, land holding, family occupation, family type, family size, organizational membership, socio economic status and mass media exposure. The findings revealed that the involvement of rural women in rearing of livestock was significantly and positively related with family occupation, family type and family size whereas there is no significant relationship between involvement of rural women in rearing of livestock and age, caste, education, land holding, organizational membership, socio-economic status and mass media exposure.Keywords
Involvement, Rural Women, Agro-Based Enterprises, Vegetable Cultivation, Livestock Rearing.
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- Entrepreneurial Knowledge of Rural Women in Carrying out Agro-Based Income Generating Activities in Assam
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1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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International Journal of Home Science Extension and Communication Management, Vol 4, No 1 (2017), Pagination: 1-6Abstract
The present study was conducted in six districts of Assam. Two districts from each zone, namely Jorhat and Dibrugarh of Upper Brahmaputra Valley Zone, Udalguri and Darrang from North Bank Plain Zone and Kamrup (M) and Kamrup (R) of Lower Brahmaputra Valley Zone were selected randomly.All total 240 rural women from 24 villages of selected zones and who were mostly engaged in both vegetable cultivation and livestock rearing were included as respondents for the study. The respondents were interviewed with the help of well structured interview schedule. The findings revealed that 44.32 per cent of rural women had low level of knowledge in vegetable cultivation whereas 40.45 per cent and 15.23 per cent of rural women had medium and high level knowledge, respectively. It was also observed that maximum number of rural women (42.77%) had medium level of knowledge in rearing of livestock whereas 39.49 per cent and 17.74 per cent of rural women had low and high level knowledge, respectively.Keywords
Level of Knowledge, Vegetable Cultivation, Livestock Rearing.References
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- Status of Farm Women of Assam as Clientele of the Agricultural Extension Services
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1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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International Journal of Home Science Extension and Communication Management, Vol 4, No 1 (2017), Pagination: 15-22Abstract
A woman is the nucleus of the family, she share abundant responsibilities to perform wide spectrum of duties both at home and outside the home. She plays a significant role in agricultural development and allied fields. Despite their importance to agricultural production, agricultural development programmes are usually targeted at men. Women are generally by-passed in development efforts. A study was conducted in three agro-climatic zones of Assam to study the socio-economic status of farm women and to find out the status of farm women as clientele of the agricultural extension services. A multistage purposive cum random sampling design was followed. Altogether 1,200 farm women were included as sample of respondents. Data were collected with the help of structured interview schedule 52.60 per cent of farm women belonged to low socio-economic status. 55.17 per cent of farm women contributed labour independently in cleaning. On an average women spent 13-15 hours a day in farm and domestic activities. 41.67 per cent of farm women had attended training on fruits and vegetables preservation. Lack of awareness of the extension programme was the first most importance problems faced by farm women for attending extension training and ranked as I. Management of pest and diseases was the first most important training need areas of farm women and ranked as I. Lack of knowledge on plant protection was the first most important problems faced by farm women in cultivation of rice and ranked as I. It can be conclude that the status of farm as clientele of the agricultural extension service was not satisfactory.Keywords
Status, Farm Women, Agricultural Extension Service.References
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