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Feasibility of value added products of pearl millet as an enterprise for rural women

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Title Feasibility of value added products of pearl millet as an enterprise for rural women
 
Creator Malik, Preeti
 
Contributor Varma, Shashi Kanta
 
Subject Millets, Productivity, Biological phenomena, Costs, Value added product, Economics, Flours, Manpower, Sampling, Selection
 
Description For assessing the feasibility of value added products of pearl millet as an enterprise for rural
women, two villages of Hisar-II block of Hisar district i.e. Balsamand and Bandaheri were selected
randomly. A sample of 100 respondents i.e. 50 from each village was drawn for creating awareness on
pearl millet importance, processing and its products and 20 women respondents from each selected
village were selected randomly who were interested to undertake training on value added products of
pearl millet. Various socio- personal, economic, psychological and communication variables
constituted the independent variables and awareness, knowledge, attitude, skill acquisition, symbolic
adoption and economic feasibility constituted the dependent variables. Data were collected with the
help of pre- tested structured interview schedule. The inferences were drawn on the basis of frequency,
percentage, paired ‘t’ test, weighted mean score and correlation.
The study revealed that most of the respondents were of younger and lower middle age group,
illiterate belonged to lower caste were married had medium family education status having nuclear
family with medium family size had agricultural labourer as their main occupation, negligible social
participation and having pucca type of house had medium annual income and majority of the
respondents were landless, having medium material possession and had high transportation means.
Majority of the respondents had medium change proneness, medium risk orientation and economic
motivation. Most of the respondents took decision jointly either intrafamily or entrepreneurial decisions
followed by decision taken by husband. Most of the respondents were having medium mass media
exposure, medium localite and low cosmopolite source of information utilization. The general
awareness of the respondents regarding value added products of pearl millet was very low level,
however, awareness was high at post- exposure level. Majority of the respondents of pooled sample
found value added products of pearl millet simple, triabile, relative advantageous, physical compatible
and cultural compatible. Sufficient gain in knowledge regarding value added products of pearl millet
was recorded for sub-component i.e. ingredients, methods of preparation, precaution during preparation
etc. The respondents succeeded in change their attitude at post-exposure in both the village and
acquiring medium skill on all the aspects of value added products of pearl millet. Impact was moderate
level with medium level of symbolic adoption and willing to adopt with somewhat difficulty as an
enterprise and for home consumption. The overall acceptability of value added products of pearl millet
was of medium level. Economic and marketing constraints were perceived as the main constraints in
adoption of pearl millet products. Knowledge was significantly correlated with land holding, negatively
but significantly correlated with caste and family size. There was no relationship between independent
variables and change in attitude. It was found that the obtained benefit cost ratio for pearl millet laddoo
and namkeen sev was considered to be economically viable and profitable for enterprise.
 
Date 2016-09-17T09:03:03Z
2016-09-17T09:03:03Z
2014
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/77165
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU