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Information Need of Rural Women In Agriculture And Their Preference of Information Sources: A Case of Four Villages of Uttar Pradesh

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Title Information Need of Rural Women In Agriculture And Their Preference of Information Sources: A Case of Four Villages of Uttar Pradesh
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Creator Rabeesh Kumar Verma
Shantanu Rakhshit
Sujit Sarkar
Arpan Bhowmik
 
Subject Rural women
Information need
Information sources
 
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Women have various information need on several aspects of agriculture since they are involved actively in farming
operation like their male counter parts. Women of rural areas have to face several problems like lack of credible
information source concerned with agriculture, lack of technical assistance in accessing and using information, lack of
mobility, weak social contacts and many others. In rural areas Women are actively engaged in all kind of agricultural
operations, they need assistance from Government, private or any other agency for latest information sources related to
crops, livestock and others allied activities. To determine the agriculture information need and preferences of sources of
agricultural information this study was designed. It was conducted in Hapur and Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh,
India. A total of 120 rural women were selected through simple random sampling technique and interviewed through
well-structured interview schedule. The data, thus collected, was analyzed by using appropriate computer software to
draw conclusions. Study revealed thatmost of the respondents i.e. rural women (80.83%) reported to have high
information need about insect management, followed by 75.00percentof respondents having high information need
regarding weather advisory. The results of the study revealed that family members, fellow farmers and radio were found
to be important information sources and ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd respectively. Study also found that the electronic media, print
media and female extension personnel were other important agricultural information sources.
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Date 2018-06-23T08:09:33Z
2018-06-23T08:09:33Z
2017-04
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Verma, R.K., Rakhshit, S., Sarkar, S. and Bhowmik, A. (2017). Information need of rural women in agriculture and their preference of information sources: A case of four villages of Uttar Pradesh. Bulletin of Environment, Pharmacology and Life Sciences. 6(5), 90-94.
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Language English
 
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Publisher Bulletin of Environment, Pharmacology and Life Sciences