Type : Other Article
Meena C. Patel and N.B. Chauhan
Knowledge and adoption are critical and important component of human actions. The knowledge and adoption of any technology is largely governed by the number of personality of the beneficiaries. Cooking is the daily activity performed in every house hold requiring various types of fuels. Solar cookers are safe around children and provide a great way to learn about and use of solar energy. Hence, to study factors affecting to knowledge and adoption behaviour of urban women regarding solar cooker, data were collected from randomly selected 140 women having their own solar cooker from eight different areas of Anand city of Gujarat state. The study revealed that more than half 57.14 per cent of the women had high to very high level of knowledge regarding solar cooker. Knowledge and adoption behaviour of women regarding solar cooker was found positive and significant relationship with their education, income, knowledge of more number of languages and economic motivation, while age of the urban women had negative and significant relationship with their knowledge and adoption behaviour regarding solar cooker
Keyword: Knowledge, Adoption, Solar cooker and Women