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- 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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