Effects of Agriculture Base Educational Intervention on Rural School Students' Awareness and Attitudes toward Agriculture

A sample of randomly selected 300 rural school students from Std 7 th , Std 8 th and Std 9 th were included in this study. Out of 300 rural school students 150 (75-girls and 75-boys) from Narsinha Vidyalaya Pokharni belonged to experimental group and the remaining 150 students from Narsinha Vidyalaya Lohgaon of Parbhani district of same standard were selected and it was considered as control group. Prior to the initiation of the experiment, scales developed by AICRP-HD component for assessment of SES, awareness about agriculture and attitudes toward agriculture were administered on both the groups'. The experimental groups' students were educated in the village for 3-4 hrs in a day, weekly twice by investigators regularly and by experts 3-4 times during the intervention by organizing series of lectures, quiz competition, exhibition and providing free of cost literature related to agriculture developed by MKV Parbhani. After implementing the intervention of awareness about agriculture and attitudes toward agriculture for a period of 3 months, all the sample rural school students in the experimental and control groups were reassessed for studying the effects of implemented agriculture base educational intervention. The experimental rural school students' post test result i.e awareness about agriculture and attitudes toward agriculture were compared with control group. It is concluded that agriculture based educational intervention on selected aspects of agriculture to rural school students' about awareness and attitudes toward agriculture found to be significantly useful in enhancing the awareness and attitudes of rural school students toward selected aspects of agriculture. Therefore rural school students need a positive agriculture based educational intervention for their contribution in agriculture. I. Objectives  To enroll rural school students for experimental & control group  To implement agriculture base educational intervention for the experimental group rural school students