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Damodar, P. P.
- Relationship Between Personal, Socio-Economic, Communicational and Psychological Characteristics of Dairy Farmers With Their Entrepreneurial Behaviour
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1 Department of Extension Education Section, Post Graduate Institute, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahmednagar (M.S.), IN
1 Department of Extension Education Section, Post Graduate Institute, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahmednagar (M.S.), IN
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Agriculture Update, Vol 9, No 4 (2014), Pagination: 571-573Abstract
The present study on relationship between personal, socio-economic, communicational and psychological characteristics of dairy farmers with their entrepreneurial behaviour was undertaken in Hingna and Kalmeshwar tahsils of Nagpur district of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state with sample size of 100 dairy farmers from 20 villages. The exploratory research design of social research was used in the present investigation. Dairy farming plays an important role in social and economic livelihood of the farmers. The relationship between personal, socio-economic, communicational and psychological characteristics of dairy farmers with their entrepreneurial behaviour, in case of age the respondents had negative and significant correlation with their entrepreneurial behaviour, while education, land holding, annual income, social participation, extension contact and economic motivation were positively correlated with their entrepreneurial behaviour, whereas occupation, family size and herd size had non-significant correlation with their entrepreneurial behaviour.Keywords
Socio-Economic, Psychological Characteristics, Communicational Characteristics, Entrepreneurial Behaviour.
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- Relationship of Personal, Socio-Economic and Situational Characteristics with the Empowerment of Rural Women
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1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Nagpur (M.S.), IN
2 Department of Extension Education, PGI, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahmednagar (M.S.), IN
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Nagpur (M.S.), IN
2 Department of Extension Education, PGI, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahmednagar (M.S.), IN
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Agriculture Update, Vol 11, No 1 (2016), Pagination: 93-95Abstract
The present study was conducted in Nagpur district of Vidarbha region, Maharashtra State, with sample size of 120 women respondents from of 12 villages. The data were collected on personal and socio-economic characteristics, empowerment, participation in various activities run by Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal. Out of 10 variables education, caste, land holding, family income were significant in explaining overall empowerment, at 0.01 level of probability. Similarly variable family occupation was also significant in explaining overall empowerment at 0.05 level of probability. All these characteristics were found to be significant in correlation analysis except type of family, size of family, age and extension participation.