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Jogo Timung ¹, Juliana Sarmah ¹, Manju Dutta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (ASSAM), IN

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Keywords

Knowledge, Nutrition, Health, Hygiene

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Oyang Dani ¹, Minerva Saikia Baruah ¹, Manju Dutta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN

Abstract

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.

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Ruli Daulagupu ¹, Minerva Saikia Baruah ¹, Manju Dutta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, JORHAT (ASSAM), IN

Abstract

Formation of self-help group is a viable alternative to achieve the objectives of rural development and to get community participation. So this study was conducted to determine the opinion of the respondents self-help group members towards SHG. Two block from Jorhat district were purposively selected to carry out the study namely Jorhat development block and Central Jorhat development block. It was revealed that Majority (64.00 %) of the respondents of SHG expressed their opinion towards SHG as highly favourable followed by 34.00 per cent as favourable and small portion of respondents (3.00 %) expressed their opinion towards self-help group as unfavourable. The findings showed that majority of SHGs were active. As the researcher selected active SHG's for present study hence, the respondent of SHGs were highly favourable towards SHG.

Keywords

Opinion, Self-Help Group, Member.

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Rulima Bharali ¹, Manju Dutta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN

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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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Rulima Bharali ¹, Manju Dutta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN

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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.

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Poree Saikia ¹, Manju Dutta Das ¹, Manoshi Baruah Deka ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN

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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.

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Poree Saikia ¹, Manju Dutta Das ¹, Manoshi Baruah Deka ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN

Abstract

The crucial importance of women’s contribution to food security is widely recognized. Yet they faced with a number of constraints for participation in agriculture such as, there are discrimination in wages, low wages for women, gender based technology, training and extension services, women have limited access to modern technical viz., credit, training and to other facilities etc. (Rath et al., 2007). Therefore, women’s empowerment still become a matter of concern. Empowerment of women is a key to long term overall development of a nation. With the advancement of time, the fact has now been felt that without ensuring women development, the national development cannot be achieved. Thus a study was conducted in three agro-climatic zones of Assam to study “Impact of agricultural extension services on empowerment of farm women of Assam” with following objectives: to study the socio-economic status of farm women and to assess the impact of agricultural extension services on empowerment of farm women. 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 % of farm women belonged to low socio-economic status. Very negligible percentage of farm women (2.50%) were entitled to have land ownership. Only 0.17 per cent farm women possessed farm implements in their own name. Majority 57.42 per cent of farm women had milch animal of their own. Large majority of the farm women (92.83%) borrowed money from their group account in SHG with nominal interest. Large majority of farm women (81.75%) saved money in between Rs. 1000 to 5000. Majority (66.50%) of farm women spend their income on buying household items. A large majority (90.75%) of farm women had poor access to farm publication followed by educational film (80.33%) and news paper (76.08%). 54.50 per cent of the farm women got farm information regularly through various sources predominately from husband. Majority (65.92%) of farm women had low level of leadership ability. Farm women moved from their houses for social visit, attending bank, post office and block which were rank as I, II and III. Less than fifty per cent of farm women took independent decision in crop harvesting and transporting (33.75%) followed by as maintenance of house (35.25%) and buying food items for family consumption (34.17%). 48.91 per cent farm women had medium level of participation in decision making. It can be conclude that farm women were empowered to some extent due to availing agricultural extension services the status of farm as clientele of the agricultural extension service was not satisfactory.

Keywords

Impact, Farm Women, Empowerment.

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Pompi Saikia ¹, Manoshi Baruah Deka ¹, Manju Dutta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, Faculty of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN

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This study examined the level of participation of women farmers in rice production in Jorhat district of Assam. Data for the study were obtained from 200 respondents and summarized using frequency distribution, percentages and correlation. Our analysis reveals that in rice cultivation all the activities except weeding and ploughing is dominated by women in the sample area. Majority of the rural women were involved independently in activities like processing (62.25%), transplanting (57.75%), cleaning (55.50%), drying (54.25%) and winnowing (52.00%). Though their participation in different rice production activities were high but rural women faced various problems in production of rice crop and decision making. This study however recommends that government should facilitate the availability of credit facilities, inputs and infrastructural facilities and also revitalize and encourage ago-based industries so as to improve the efficiency in processing and marketing of rice products.

Keywords

Participation, Women Farmers, Rice Production, Problems, Decision Making.

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Gitasree Goswami ¹, Manju Dutta Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, Faculty of Community Science,Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN

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The present study was aimed to construct, develop and standardize a knowledge scale on organic farming for marginal farmers. After going through several related literature, the researcher outlined a scale and after analyzing, the content framed 57 items related to the course. The prepared 57 items were revised and edited carefully and then given to a total 20 numbers of panel of experts in the field of agriculture namely entomology, horticulture, agronomy, soil science and scientists of RARS Titabor for their valuable suggestions and corrections to ensure its quality. Thus, the content validity of the tool was established. After seeking the opinion of the experts, some of the items were reframed. Finally, 44 items were considered to form initial test battery for developing a standardized knowledge test. These items were subjected to item analysis. After which, a total of 18 items were remained for the final study. The initial test prepared was pre-tested with 30 respondents from two villages. The items were revised and finally administered to 90 marginal farmers selected randomly from six non-sampled villages of Jorhat Development Block selected for the study to collect data for item analysis.

Keywords

Knowledge, Organic farming, Marginal farmer, Scale.

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