Browsing by Author "Sarvesh Kumar"

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Adoption behaviour of farmers towards rice production technology
(Agri Bio Research Publishers, 2015) Sarvesh Kumar; A.K. Singh
A study was conducted to assess the extent of adoption of rice production technology by fanners. Extent of measurement of adoption was calculated by development of an adoption scale. Sixteen major aspects of rice cultivation technology were included in this schedule. Relevant data were collected from the selected respondents with the help of a wellconstructed interview schedule. Personal interview technique was used for collection of data from the rice growers. From the above discussion, it could be concluded that the extent of adoption in large farmers was from 34.40 to 71.20% and in small farmers it was from 31.22 to 69.25%, whereas in case of marginal farmers the extent of adoption was observed to be from 25.75 to 65.40% in all recommended rice production practices in the study area. On the basis of results obtained from the study and observations made during investigations, the following recommendations were made for promotion of improved cultivation practices in the study area. It was noted that majority of the rice growers had poor knowledge and adoption of practices, namely, soil treatment, plant protection measures, weed management by chemicals, seed treatment, high yielding varieties and storage of rice in the study area. Therefore, State Agriculture Department in collaboration with Krishi Vigyan Kendra and reputed NGOs should develop comprehensive educational training programmes on rice cultivation for the farmers. Such training programmes should be organized at Gram Panchayat level so that all the farmers can participate in the trainings.
Analyzing Adoption Impediments in Soil Health Card based Fertilizer Application by Farmers
(Indian Society of Extension Education, 2025) Sarvesh Kumar
The study was completed in Harda district of Madhya Pradesh. Present study was completed in the year 2023. The average data of continuous SHC based study and extension based responses were collected through developed interview schedule, random group discussion, meetings and personal interviews and data was analyzed to find out the adoption extent, impediments, regarding of soil health card based recommendations among farmers of different villages provided or benefited under different schemes of state departments and Krishi Vigyan Kendra and line departments. The importance of soil health card based fertilizers use was told to farmers before the response collection in the initiation of crop season through training and other awareness programmers. The impediments were recorded to know the status of adoption of soil health card based fertilizers application among farming community in Soybean and Wheat major crops. The continuous motivation of educated farmers having good social participation and mass media exposure by KVK scientists through conducting SHC based trials and demonstrations, backstopping by field extension activities and success story sharing have significant role in enhancing the adoption rate and balance use of fertilizers dozes for improving farmers income and cost saving in Harda district of Madhya Pradesh. © 2025, Indian Society of Extension Education. All rights reserved.
Ayodhyā (India): Sacredscapes and the Inclusive Heritage-Based City Development (IHCD)
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025) Rana P.B. Singh; Sarvesh Kumar
According to UNESCO, urban governance is the process that leads and considers the various links between stakeholders, local authorities, and citizens; it includes written and unwritten policies, procedures, and decision-making of units that control resource allocation within and among institutions. Inclusive Heritage-based City Development (IHCD) policies are an integrated part of urban governance, and heritage properties and sacred places can be an integral part of larger ensembles, such as holy-historic cities, cultural landscapes, and natural sites. The holy-heritage city of Ayodhyā plays an important role in the formation of religious nationalism and corporate identity of religious heritage through cultural performances, pilgrimages, and religious festivities. The main institutional-administrative bodies of Ayodhyā, viz. Shri Rāma Janmabhumi Tīrtha Kshetra Trust, City Development Authority, International Rāmāyaṇa and Vedic Research Institute (IRVRI), and Indian National Trust for Art, Culture and Heritage (INTACH), and other such bodies fulfil the three dimensions of urban governance, i.e. political, economic, and institutional—all together they play an important role in making heritage-inclusive development policies and programmes. The IRVRI promotes heritages using associated attributes as resources, especially intangible and religious performances. This chapter narrates the role of urban governance in heritage-inclusive development concerning sacredscapes. The qualitative approach, participatory observations, field studies, and interfacing interviews are the main frameworks of this chapter. This chapter is reasonably initiated from our earlier studies (Kumar and Singh in Ayodhyā, India: cultural landscape and perspectives for inclusive heritage development. Context: built, living and natural, pp 21–30, 2017a; Kumar and Singh in Making cities resilient. The urban book series. Springer, Cham, pp 317–338, 2019); however, significant updates and contemporary changes have been incorporated. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
Ayodhya: The imageability and perceptions of cultural landscapes
(ACCB Publishing, 2018) Rana P.B. Singh; Sarvesh Kumar
Most of the visitors (pilgrims in the majority) and the dwellers (mostly Hindus) perform some sorts of rituals at varying degrees and become involved in the religious activities to gain solace or soul healing. Of course, as sidetrack visitors also perform other activities of recreation and side-show. However, these are the marginal activities. It is obviously noted that personality of pilgrims and dwellers in the context of economic, social, cultural, job status, and perspective of life, has a direct effect on the nature of environmental sensitivity to its sacred landscapes and mythologies that support and make them alive. Ongoing rituals, continuous performances of Ramalila in the evening, pilgrimages and auspicious glimpses to the divine images, and associated happenings together make the whole are a part of the sacred environment. These are categorised within the frame of responsive perception, testing Kevin Lynch's scale of imageability represented with the five elements, viz. path, edge, node, district, and landmark. The perceptual survey of dwellers and pilgrims are codified into a composite cognitive map that reflects the generalised images of various behavioural attributes that fit the cultural and natural landscapes of the city; this is similar to other holy cities of north India like Varanasi, Mathura, and Chitrakut. © 2018 Singh and Kumar.
Determining the Knowledge Level and Accessibility of Major ICT Tools by Farmers in Madhya Pradesh
(Indian Society of Extension Education, 2025) Sarvesh Kumar
Information Communication Technologies are vibrant ways to significantly boost the agricultural sector by providing farmers with access to vital information, input availability, and online financial transactional services like DBT covering PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi, agri-input subsidies, and domestic gas subsidies. The study was conducted in 2024 to find out the major ICTs tools’ use, accessibility, knowledge level, and major barriers faced in use by collecting data from 150 randomly sampled farmers of Harda district of Madhya Pradesh. Data were collected by using a pre-tested structured interview schedule and analyzed with appropriate statistical tools. The majority of respondent farmers (68.45%) had a medium knowledge level about ICT tools. Education, annual income, social participation, mass media exposure, and extension contact expressed significant positive correlation with accessibility of major ICT tools among farmers. The major barriers were observed with Garrett’s ranking techniques. The farmers, especially young farmers, possessed the ICT tool like a smart mobile only for personal entertainment and interconnectivity, rarely using it to access agricultural knowledge for improvement. The backstopping of farmers to boost digital literacy for agricultural development and ICT adoption could be augmented by organizing educational campaigns and training. © 2025, Indian Society of Extension Education. All rights reserved.
Holy-Heritage City Development and Planning in India: A Study of Ayodhya
(Springer International Publishing, 2020) Rana P. B. Singh; Sarvesh Kumar
Religious heritage as religious properties and sacred places can be an integral part of larger ensembles, such as historic cities, cultural landscapes and natural sites. Religion had played a role for controlling power in Indian monarchy in the ancient past, and in contemporary India too it played a role in the formation of religious nationalism and corporate identity of religious heritage, through commonly using processions, pilgrimage, religious assemblies, religious fairs (melā), and visit to sacred places. Situated on the right bank of Ghaghara River (Sarayu), Ayodhya is primarily an ancient tirtha (riverfront sacredscapes) and salvific city that has settlement continuity since at least ca 800BCE. Ayodhya is the sacred place not only for Hindus, but also for other religions of India, like Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhs and Islam (Muslims). In Hindu mythologies, it is described as the birthplace of Lord Rama, a major deity of Vaishnavite group. Ayodhya records many rituals, festivities, pilgrimages journeys and important ancient temples, river ghats (stairways and bathing places), holy tanks, holy wells and holy ponds and their aesthetic qualities and heritage values; those are the representative grandeur of art and tangible and intangible heritage values of the city. Presently around 1.9 million pilgrims pay visit to Ayodhya every year on various religious occasions. Now, most of the religious heritage sites and monuments are dilapidating and are in abandoning condition in lack of rational and viable conservation and preservation strategy, good administration management and lack of people awareness and their involvement. The present paper deals with the historical and cultural development of the heritage-sacred city of Ayodhya and examines the strategies in process for the future development, taking into consideration the National programmes of HRIDAY and PRASAD, and development of pilgrimage sites. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
Maternal determinants of immunization status of children aged 12-23 months in urban slums of Varanasi, India
(Elsevier, 2015) Ashish Awasthi; C.M. Pandey; Uttam Singh; Sarvesh Kumar; T.B. Singh
Problem considered: The risk of health problems from vaccine-preventable diseases is highest in those who experience barriers in accessing immunization services. These barriers could be cost, location, lack of awareness of immunization services and their health benefits or other limiting factors. Material & methods: The present study was conducted to identify the determinants of complete immunization status among children aged 12-23 months in urban slums of Varanasi in India. A modified WHO EPI cluster sampling method has been used for sample selection. Data on 384 children were collected using pretested questionnaire through house to house visit. Chi-square test, bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were used to assess the factors associated with complete immunization status in the urban slums of Varanasi. Results: Only 57.03% children have received the complete recommended immunization schedule under universal immunization program. Significant determinants of the complete immunization were maternal age (OR. = 1.86, 95% CI 1.54-3.23), parity less than three (OR. = 2.84, 95% CI 1.98-3.73), employment status of mother (OR. = 1.39, 95% CI 1.21-2.63) and mother's education higher than secondary level (OR. = 1.59, 95% CI 1.30-2.88). Conclusion: More than half the way is complete to achieve the target of universal immunization against vaccine preventable diseases among children, but there is need to address the issue of dropout. Mother's education, low parity, maternal age and employment status of mothers are main factors associated with adherence of immunization schedule. It is necessary that interventions should be strengthened to minimize immunization dropout in the vulnerable children. © 2014 INDIACLEN.
Nexus between nanotechnology and agricultural production systems: challenges and future prospects
(Springer Nature, 2024) Lalita Rana; Manish Kumar; Jitendra Rajput; Navnit Kumar; Sumit Sow; Sarvesh Kumar; Anil Kumar; S.N. Singh; C.K. Jha; A.K. Singh; Shivani Ranjan; Ritwik Sahoo; Dinabandhu Samanta; Dibyajyoti Nath; Rakesh Panday; Babu Lal Raigar
Sustainable agriculture is crucial for meeting the growing global food demand. With the pressure of climate change, resource depletion, and the need for increased agricultural productivity, innovative approaches are essential. Nanotechnology is an emerging technology in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs). Despite its promising benefits, the safe implementation of nanotechnology in agriculture requires careful consideration of potential health and environmental risks. However, there is a lack of comprehensive documentation on the application, potential and limitations of nanotechnology in the field of agriculture. To address this gap, a desk research approach was used by utilizing peer-reviewed electronic databases like PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Science Direct for relevant articles. Out of 157 initially identified articles, 85 were deemed pertinent, focusing primarily on potential nanotechnology in smart agricultural systems. Taking into account research findings worldwide, we found significant improvements with nanotechnology over traditional methods which underscores the practical benefits of nanotechnology, including increased crop yields, efficient resource use, and reduced environmental footprint. The objective of this systematic review is to explore the nexus between nanotechnology and agricultural systems, highlighting its potential to enhance productivity, sustainability, and resilience and to inform researchers, practitioners, and policymakers about the transformative impact of nanotechnology on sustainable agriculture and underscores the need for further research to address safety concerns and maximize its potential for agricultural advancement. © The Author(s) 2024.
SACRED WATER POOLS OF HINDU SACREDSCAPES IN NORTH INDIA; [Sveti vodeni bazeni hinduističkih svetih krajolika u sjevernoj Indiji]
(Croatian Ethnological Society, 2021) Rana P.B. Singh; Pravin S. Rana; Sarvesh Kumar
The basic metaphysical frame of life in ancient India, that of sacred water (pavitra jala) and the notion that "Water itself is life" (jala hī jivan hai), can be illustrated with case studies of two cities. Settled continuously since 1000 BCE, the cities of Varanasi and Ayodhya have been eulogized as the salvific holy-heritage cities in India known for their ritualscapes associated with sacred waters and pools. According to the ancient treatises and tales, there were fifty-four sacred tanks (kunds) and wells (kūpas) in each of these cities, and they became important sites for purification rituals, pilgrimage, healing and festive celebration by devout Hindus. After providing descriptions of the sacred water pools, this essay in part explores traditions associated with a water-pool sacred to the Sun god in both the cities. More broadly, using ancient texts, present participatory surveys, and ethnological narration, the essay considers the long-lived sacrality of water pools in these holy cities and current development strategies involving them. © 2021 Croatian Ethnological Society. All rights reserved.