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Information management behaviour of khol crop growers of Belgaum district of Karnataka state

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Title Information management behaviour of khol crop growers of Belgaum district of Karnataka state
 
Creator Ravindra K.Patil
 
Contributor K.A.Jahagirdar
 
Subject Agricultural Extension Education
 
Description The investigation was conducted during 2005-06 to study the information
management behaviour of khol crop growers of Belgaum district of Karnataka state. Belgaum
district was purposively selected for the study because, it ranks first in area and production of
khol crops in north Karnataka. Further in Belgaum district two taluks viz., Belgaum and
Bailhongal taluks were selected, five villages from each taluk were selected and ten farmers
from each village were selected as respondents for the study. Analysis of data was done using
different statistical tools.
The important findings of the study were majority of the respondents used personal
contacts for seeking progressive farmers and agro service center were regularly consulted by
the respondents. The other important sources consulted were krishimela and radio.
Information evolution behaviour of the farmers indicated that none of the respondents
accepted the information as such, the study reveled that cent per cent of respondents had
followed the method of ‘memorization’ for storage.
Factor like education, annual income, extension participation organization
participation, land holding, innovativeness, mass media exposure, economic motivation were
positive and highly significant relation with information management behaviour, where as
age and farming experience were found to be non-significant relationship with information
management behaviour (IMB).
Constraints expressed by the farmers were ‘lack of knowledge of available
information sources’. Suggestions expressed by farmers to overcome constraints in
information management were ‘complete information should be given’.
 
Date 2016-10-13T10:48:13Z
2016-10-13T10:48:13Z
2006
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/80453
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher UAS, Dharwad