Vol. 7, Issue 6 (2019)
Scale to measure knowledge of rural women about the agro-based enterprisess
Author(s): Dhodia AJ, Gardhariya KV and Timbadia CK
Abstract: Women today are central to the selection, breeding, cultivation, preparation & harvest of food crops. Mainly rural women are engaged in agricultural activities in the three different ways depending on the socio-economic status of their family and regional factors. They work as labourers, cultivators doing labour on their own land, as manager of certain aspects of agricultural production by way of labour supervision and participation in postharvest operation. Rural women engaged in many agro-based activities including various forms of food processing and in particular, the preservation of fruits and vegetables, making of pickles, badi and papad, and some variations of kitchen gardening for horticultural products since time immemorial, dairy is one of the activity in which women are engaged. Hence the understanding of knowledge level of rural women about agro-based enterprises viz. Dairying, Vermicomposting, Food processing/Value addition and Beekeeping, a scale was developed to measure knowledge of rural women about the agro-based enterprises. Different steps viz. Item collection and selection, Item analysis, Calculation of difficulty index (Pi), Calculation of discrimination index (ð‘¬ðŸâ„ðŸ‘), Calculation of biserial correlation, Selection of items, Reliability and validity of the test were utilized for construction of scale on knowledge of rural women about agro-based enterprises. 76 statements were sent to 60 judges for its relevancy by assigning the score for each item in five continuums. Based on the scale value (S) and quartile value (Q), total 44 statements were finally selected to constitute the scale to measure knowledge of rural women about the agro-based enterprises. Reliability of the scale found to be 0.9665.
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Dhodia AJ, Gardhariya KV, Timbadia CK. Scale to measure knowledge of rural women about the agro-based enterprisess. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(6):2471-2473.
