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Awareness of rural women functionaries towards environment degradation

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Title Awareness of rural women functionaries towards environment degradation
 
Creator Sonia Rani
 
Contributor Shehrawat, P.S.
 
Subject Environment, Irrigation, Wastes, Biological phenomena, Climate, Climatic change, Diseases, Crops, Productivity, Land resources
 
Description This study was conducted to create awareness towards environment degradation to make a healthy
environment. The study was conducted in two districts of Haryana state namely, Hisar and Kaithal and a total no. of
one hundred twenty women were selected and interviewed with the help of well structured schedule. The study
revealed that majority of the women were of middle age group (36-50 years), educated up to higher education,
belonged to nuclear family with 4 members, performed government, private jobs and self employment.The findings
revealed that women awareness towards environment degradation (86.66%) and about types of pollution (48.33%)
were found fully aware as per women responses. The study shows that women dust in air, loss of biodiversity
(100%), fertilizers and pesticides residual leaching (85.83%), and were agreed about these statements. Major causes
of environment degradation were bursting of crackers and burning of garbage in open, exhaustive pumping up of
ground water for irrigation (2.91), high use of synthetic fertilizers/chemicals (2.90), waste disposal (2.88),
industrial activities (2.60) and automobiles (2.51) with their weighted mean scores. Very serious losses due to
environment degradation were air pollutant effect on human health, animals and plants (1.47), noise disturbs sleep
(1.00), while, deeper level of ground water table leads to irrigation scarcity (1.35), quality deterioration of crop
produce and fertilizers cause toxicity in food products (1.23), lost of biodiversity and tropical forest, extinction of
plant and animal species (0.41) as per their ‘Z’ score. Results pertaining adoption of alternative measures to
mitigate or minimizing the environment degradation was medium. Least smoky trees should be planted and used,
Baval, Neem, Pipal, Bargad, Shisham, Aam, Jamun (94.16%), Installing chimneys to rent smoke from indoor
stoves (90.83%) Storage and disposal of farm wastes properly (79.16%), Campaigning for healthy environment
(74.16%), enhancing the area under agro and social forestry (69.16), empowerment of women for different
development programs (66.66%) were found very effective among the women to making the environment healthy.
 
Date 2016-09-17T09:34:00Z
2016-09-17T09:34:00Z
2014
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/77185
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU