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EXPOSURE AND UTILISATION OF AGRICULTURAL WEBSITES BY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, BAPATLA

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Title EXPOSURE AND UTILISATION OF AGRICULTURAL WEBSITES BY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, BAPATLA
 
Creator VENKATA MURALI, G
 
Contributor VENKATARAMAIAH, P
 
Subject EXPOSURE, UTILISATION, AGRICULTURAL, WEBSITES, POSTGRADUATE, STUDENTS, AGRICULTURAL, COLLEGE, BAPATLA
 
Description 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.
 
Date 2016-08-20T10:58:17Z
2016-08-20T10:58:17Z
2004
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/73126
 
Language en
 
Relation D7656;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N. G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD