1Department of Extension Education, Dr. B.S. Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli, Maharashtra-415712, India
2Department of Extension Education, Agricultural College, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Bapatla, Bapatla-522101, Andhra Pradesh, India
3Department of Extension Education, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttar Pradesh-208002, India
4Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science, Dr. B.S. Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli, Maharashtra-415712, India
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Online published on 15 December, 2016.
The study revealed that majority of the women in Self Help Groups had medium (78.89%) level of capacity building, followed by high (12.22%) and low (8.89%) level of capacity building. The relationship between personal, socio-economic, psychological characteristics and level of capacity building of members of women Self Help Groups observed that computed ‘r’ values of age, education, marital status, nature of family, enterprise, loan borrowing behaviour, risk orientation, market orientation, management orientation were positively significant whereas annual income was negatively significant and the remaining variables, net returns and incubation period showed non-significant relation with level of capacity building at 0.01 level of probability. Multiple Linear Regression Analysis inferred that selected independent variables put together contributed 86.80 per cent of the total variation in the level of capacity building of members of women SHG's.
Level of Capacity Building, Members, Personal, Psychological Characteristics Socio-Economic, Women Self Help Groups
