• Dr. Saswati Pattanaik

Most of the population lives in rural area of India. Role of both the gender particularly the women have a great role in rural development in agrarian culture. Women have been kept down a & always dependent on .they always have less accessibility to different Government developmental programmes operating in their areas, thus affecting the success of that programmes. In this context, the awareness & knowledge of women regarding Government programmes have a great role. Now, the people have started seriously about the need of Integrate Women in Developmental Programmes. The women’s participation is necessary in rural developmental programmes aiming development of agriculture. Therefore, the recent study has under taken to know the role of women in different agriculture programmes implemented by State Government with the objectives to find out the extent of awareness & knowledge of rural women in these programmes. The study was conducted in four villages situated in four different Gram Panchayats under Nuapada & Komona block of Nuapada district of Odisha State. Both purposive & stratified random sampling technique was used in the selection of district, blocks & samples. Sample comprises of 80 no. of respondents .a pilot study was undertaken before interview schedule preparation. Methods of data analysis were chalked out through percentage, standard deviation, Pearson’s Co-efficient of correlation. It is found that most of the respondents came to know about different Agricultural programmes through BAO followed by Gram Panchayat rather than from WSHG & VAW. Radio plays great role in spreading of awareness rather than television due frequent power cut & involvement of high cost. However, printed media are the best for awareness but only 30% of respondents read newspaper daily. Only the 10% of respondent use Mobile & out of that only few have Smart Phone. Video & projected film are quite essential in spreading of awareness & knowledge but only 33% had seen this in once or twice .In the context of social participation only 40% of respondents paid their visit rarely to Gram Panchayat/Samiti. Regarding knowledge & awareness of rural women about different Agriculture Schemes viz.Soura Jalanidhi Yojana (SJY), Mukhya Mantri Krishi Udyog Yojana (MMKUY), Doubling Farmers Income (DFI) scheme, it is interesting to note that 88% of the respondent have no idea regarding MMKUY & only 40% of the respondents know the DFI & SJY.36% of respondents know about the Odisha Food Security Scheme (SFSS).90% of them don’t know the aim of this scheme. Regarding knowledge & awareness with some selected socio economic variables revealed that farm size, income, social participation Cosmo politeness & scientific orientation significantly related with their knowledge & awareness with correlation (r) value 0.381,0.288,0.257 & 0.404 respectively whereas in case of variables like age ,caste ,family size had no significant relation with the knowledge & awareness of the rural women.

AGRICULTURE SCHEMES, RURAL WOMEN, KNOWLEDGE

"AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE OF RURAL WOMEN ABOUT AGRICULTURE SCHEMES A CASE STUDY IN ODISHA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 1, page no.b612-b616, January-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2201179.pdf

"AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE OF RURAL WOMEN ABOUT AGRICULTURE SCHEMES A CASE STUDY IN ODISHA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 1, page no. ppb612-b616, January-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2201179.pdf