Vol. 7, Issue 4 (2019)
Technological knowledge about sericulture among farming families
Author(s): Shivaleela P Patil and Annapurna Kalal
Abstract: Sericulture is providing sustainable livelihood to many rural and semi-urban people in India. It is a farm-based, labour intensive and commercialÂly attractive economic activity. The farm and non-farm activities of this enterprise create sixty lakh man days of employment every year in the rural sector. The southern part of Karnataka is known for its traditional sericulture since from many decades. However sericulture is slowly emerging as one of the most important agro-based economic activity for most of farmers because of minimum investment, low gestation period, high employment potential and high remunerative returns. Therefore a research study was conducted to know the gender differences in technological knowledge about sericulture production technologies among 300 sericulture farming families in Bagalakot, Belagavi and Haveri districts of north Karnataka during the year 2018-2019. The results revealed that a large majority of men (88.33%) and women (81.00) had high level of knowledge. Only 11.67 percent men and 19.00 percent women had medium knowledge. None of them were in the low category. There is a significant difference in knowledge between men and women regarding preparation of land (z- value 2.14*), pest and disease management (z- value 2.32*), silkworm varieties and room management (z- value 2.09*), silkworm management in mountages (1.90*) and rules & regulations of sericulture market (z- value 2.19*). However, there is no significant difference between knowledge level among men and women regarding water & fertilizer management, weed management & inter-cultivation, mulberry harvesting & storage, silkworm rearing & feed management in the shoot system and picking of cocoons & selling. There is a significant difference in knowledge level of men and women of the three districts (C.D. value 2.46). The men of Bagalkot district had the highest mean score of 65.26 followed by Haveri (60.47) and Belagavi (57.83). Similarly in case of women, the women of Bagalkot district had highest mean score of 61.63 followed by Belagavi (59.35) and Haveri (51.45). Hence, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference in knowledge of both men and women among the three districts in general, and men’s knowledge was better than that of women indicating need to educate through various means to make them equal partners in sericulture production activities as sericulture is family affair.
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Shivaleela P Patil, Annapurna Kalal. Technological knowledge about sericulture among farming families. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(4):2914-2919.
