Year: 2016 | Month: June | Volume 2 | Issue 1
Technological Empowerment of Rural Women of Udaipur District (Rajasthan) in Animal Husbandry through SHGs
Seema Tyagi
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Abstract:
Women in rural India play a major role with regard to care and management of livestock. The present research was taken up to find out the technological empowerment of rural women with respect to animal husbandry technologies. The study was conducted in the villages of Udaipur district of Rajasthan with one government and one non-government organization having maximum number of SHGs formed under them. Total 20 SHGs (10 from each type of organization) were studied. To see the impact of SHGs on technological empowerment of members, a third group as a control was selected from adjoining villages of identified villages of GO and NGO (40 non-beneficiaries of each type). Interview schedule was used for data collection. It was encouraging to find that majority of beneficiaries from GO and NGO (72.22% and 71.11%, respectively) had good knowledge, whereas, almost all the non beneficiaries from GO and NGO had poor knowledge of animal husbandry technologies. Beneficiaries of both GO and NGO had highest knowledge in ‘clean milk production’, followed by ‘feeding’ and ‘housing’ with MPS (Mean per cent score) ranging from 73.33 to 91.11. The non beneficiaries exhibited very poor knowledge on all the aspects (MPS range 3.11 to 7.63) except for ‘clean milk production’ as the MPS ranged from 25.18 to 29.62. There was significant difference between the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries with regard to their knowledge on animal husbandry. The beneficiaries had higher mean score of knowledge (17.65 and 18.23 for GO and NGO beneficiaries, respectively) as compared to non-beneficiaries (3.3). Among the beneficiaries from GO and NGO, there was no significant difference in their knowledge.
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