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Participation and Decision Making of Rural Youth in Agriculture

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Title Participation and Decision Making of Rural Youth in Agriculture
 
Creator Savita B. Nashi
 
Contributor K.A. Jahagirdar
 
Subject Agricultural Extension Education
 
Description Youth are the most potent segment of the population of the country. The youth
of today are the hopes of tomorrow. They are the backbone of the country. The
Socioeconomic development and prosperity of rural areas depends to a considerable
extent, on the type of youth living in rural areas, because the rural youth have abilities
to orient themselves to go along the main stream of the development process. Hence,
the study was conducted in Belgaum district during 2010-11. Three taluks were
selected namely Belgaum, Gokak and Raibag. From which twelve villages were
selected by random sampling method. From each village, five male and five female
respondents were selected. Thus, total sample size was 120.
Majority (80%) of the rural male youth participated in ploughing, cent per cent
of rural female youth were self participated in all activities. Majority (68.33%) of the
youth were needed training in ?identification of pests and diseases?. Majority (65%) of
the rural youth expressed lack of awareness as their major problem (latest technology,
varieties etc.). One third (34.17%) of the rural youth had education upto middle
school. Majority (56.67% &58.33%) of the rural male and female youth belonged to
nuclear family. Both rural male (53.33%) and female (43.33%) youth had family size
of 5 to 8 members. Majority (65%) of the respondents belonged to forward caste,
medium experience in farming (70%), nearly half of the respondents had high annual
income (49.17%) and medium farm families (48.33%). Majority (94.17%) of the
families of rural youth possessed television. Among them 75.22 per cent viewed
commercial programmes daily, 35 per cent of the respondents had medium
innovativeness, 34.17 per cent of the respondents had high level of aspiration. The
rural male youths are having higher innovativeness and more aspiration level than
rural female youths.
 
Date 2016-11-11T13:39:25Z
2016-11-11T13:39:25Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/85097
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher UAS, Dharwad