Agriculture Update

P. H. Chaudhary ¹, V. V. Gohad ², P. V. Dafale , S. A. Barge ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), IN
2 Department of Agricultural, Extension Education, Shri. Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), IN

Abstract

This investigation was carried out during the year 2010-2011. From 3 Agriculture Colleges, 120 respondents (students) were randomly selected for the study. Data were collected from the students with help of pretested schedule by personal interview method. The result revealed that majority (55.00 per cent) of the respondent students had medium level of aspiration while, 22.50 per cent of respondent students had low level of aspiration and also 22.50 per cent of respondents possessed high level of aspiration. The correlation analysis related to independent variables viz., occupation of parents, annual family income, family education status, academic performance and attitude showed significant and positive relationship with aspiration. While s ize of land holding and size of family showed pos itive and non-significant relat ionship with aspiration. Majority of respondents faced constraints like irregularity of educational tour expressed by 70.00 per cent of students, inadequate availability of text book in college library(67.50 per cent), current agriculture knowledge was not provided (66.66 per cent) and 58.33 per cent of students expressed lack of orientation given for various competitive examinations as a constraint.

Keywords

Aspiration, College Student, Agriculture.

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P. V. Dafale ¹, V. V. Gohad ², A. S. Bhoyar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani (M.S.), IN
2 Department of Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), IN

Abstract

The study was conducted in randomly selected four villages in Parbhani and Purna Taluka of Parbhani district with the objective to study the personal and socio-economic characteristics of farm women to assess the adoption of post harvest technology by farm women and to find out relationship of personal characteristics with adoption of post harvest technology and to identify the constraints faced by farm women in adoption of post harvest technology of groundnuts. It was observed from the data that age had negative significant relationship with adoption of post harvest technology of groundnut while family size was having negative but significant relationship with adoption of post harvest technology of groundnut by farm women.

Keywords

Adoption, Post Harvest Technology, Groundnut.

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