EXPOSURE AND UTILISATION OF AGRICULTURAL WEBSITES BY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, BAPATLA
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EXPOSURE AND UTILISATION OF AGRICULTURAL WEBSITES BY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, BAPATLA
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VENKATA MURALI, G
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VENKATARAMAIAH, P
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EXPOSURE, UTILISATION, AGRICULTURAL, WEBSITES, POSTGRADUATE, STUDENTS, AGRICULTURAL, COLLEGE, BAPATLA
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Agricultural profession is as old as the existence of mankind along with other professions, it plays a very vital role in a nation’s development in present era of Cyber Technology, where the computer applications are much appreciated. The agricultural education and research have also been enriched by the application of information technology all round. Agricultural College, Bapatla was started as one of the galaxy of professional colleges in the year 1945. The college has now 15 departments with a number of well equipped laboratories in various fields not only to conduct research but to facilitate students with contrived as well as direct purposeful experiences. Exposing to agricultural websites facilitates postgraduate research scholars to have access to lot of information and exposure to different types of ideas and concepts followed by more interactions with the researchers of other countries and greater improvement in data analysis as well as interpretation. Keeping abov e backdrop in mind, the present study is modulated. Ex-post-facto research design was followed in the present study. Agricultural College, Bapatla in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh was selected for the study. Complete enumeration was followed for drawing the sample for study. A total of 98 agricultural postgraduate students which includes 51 from first year and 47 from second year M.Sc(Ag) constituted the sample. Data was collected through questionnaire, which was subjected for statistical analysis and interpretation. Majority of the post-graduate students of Agricultural College, Bapatla hailed from rurban background and possessed medium level of attitude, information seeking behaviour, scientific orientation, innov ativeness, achievement motivation, website knowledge, mass media exposure and economic status. With regard to educational aspiration, majority of the students aspired to prosecute doctoral programme in Agricultural Sciences. Larger number of students were occupationally aspired to become Assistant Professors in university and were daily exposed to agricultural websites and utilized the same sometimes only. In case of www.et.agriculture.com website, majority of them exposed to it “once in a week” and utilised this particular website “some times” (37.76) followed by equal percentage of respondents (37.76%) who were “always” using the said website. Similarly majority of them “once in a week” exposed to www.manage.gov.in website and used the same “some times” only. Selected independent variables viz., attitude, information seeking behaviour, scientific orientation, innovativeness, achievement motivation, knowledge about websites, mass media exposure, lev el of aspiration and economic status correlated significantly, whereas, rural and urban background was non significantly correlated with exposure to agricultural websites. But, as far as correlation with utilisation of agricultural websites are concerned, except rural and urban background, scientific orientation, Innovativeness, level of aspiration and economic status, the rest of the independent variables showed positive and significant relationship. With reference to the exposure of www.et.agriculture.com website, except rural and urban background, all the other independent variables were significantly correlated whereas the utilisation of the said website showed non-significant relationship with all the selected independent variables except the attitude and information seeking behaviour interestingly the relationship was significant with all independent variables except rural and urban background, innovativeness and economic status which were non-significant with the exposure to www.manage.gov.in whereas the utilisation of this website was non-significantly related with all the variables except attitude, information seeking behav iour and mass media exposure. Website, Television, Professor in the university, News paper and Radio were preferred by the postgraduate students as credible source of information in decreasing order of importance. Similar trend of descending order of ranking was observed among the agricultural websites www.et.agricultural.com, www. manage.gov.in, www.angrau.com, www.nird.com and www.fao. org.com. The consequences due to websites exposure in general in terms of socio-economic and psychological aspects were perceived by the majority of the PG students and enlisted as “removed the social barriers”, “increased employment opportunities” and “developed their own set of conventions” were the major psychological, social and economical consequences. The most important constraint encountered by the respondents in utilisation of agricultural websites was higher browsing cost (39.79%) and the most important suggestion as perceived by students was “Need for extensive awareness of computer literacy training programmes for them (35.71%). Many more suggestions, implications future focus of study were also included and schedule was appended. |
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2016-08-20T10:58:17Z
2016-08-20T10:58:17Z 2004 |
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Thesis
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http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/73126
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en
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D7656;
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application/pdf
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ACHARYA N. G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD
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