Rural women self-help group members – A profile analysis

Abstract

The study was conducted in Kancheepuram, Thanjavur and Tiruchirappalli districts of Tamil Nadu selecting 300 respondents of rural women, possessing cultivable land and membership in self-help groups. Rural self-help group women developed savings habit to a maximum extent( 95.33%) capitalize the loan benefit (93.66%) due of joining in self-help groups. Frequent visit to adjacent city / town (5.33%), frequent meeting without prior intimation (5.00%), intense family problems (3.66%), training at far away places (1.33%), less profit (0.33%) from the enterprises started due to joining self_x0002_help groups ceased enrollment, more than one – fourth (26.67%) of members had undergone more than five trainings,more than three-fourth majority (79.33%) of them had acquired medium to high level of communication status, more than three-fourth (80.00%) had medium to high level of information seeking behaviour, majority of the respondents had shared the information with medium to high level (92.33%) , possessed high level of economic motivation (81.33%). About 91.00 per cent of the respondents had medium to high level of innovativeness and risk preference (84.34%). Cent per cent of the SHG members have had medium to high level of achievement motivation

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.100545

Pages

108 - 113

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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