Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22983
Notes:
Pages 57-63 in V.S. Gupta, Rural press: problems and prospects. Press Institute of India, New Delhi. 78 pages., Reports that there are about 250 farm periodicals published in India, of which about 190 are in Hindi and other regional languages. About 8,000 small newspapers operating in and for the countryside. "Although there are 21 agricultural universities and 33 research institutes of the ICAR, there seems to be a near absence of concern for using farm periodicals as media for transfer for technology."
Ninan, Sevanti (author) and Malaviya, Sushmita (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004-06-28
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23931
Notes:
Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 6 pages., "Two years ago newspaper publishers in these parts witnessed a decline in circulation because of the influence of electronic media. But now there is a whole new territory being carved out in Hindi-speaking rural India b y newspapers which see their urban markets stagnating, and advertising being taken away by TV channels."
Berthe, M. Adama (author) and Kante, M. Amadou Gagny (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
International: Afrolit Society, Nairobi, Kenya
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00520
Notes:
Pages 7-12 in Charles T. Hein and Keith K. Kanyogonya (eds.), Rural press for village post-literacy literature. Afrolit Paper No. 5. Fifth Biennial Afrolit Society Pan-African Literacy Workshop Report, Afrolit Society, Nairobi, Kenya. 93 pages
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00521
Notes:
Pages 15-17 in Charles T. Hein and Keith K. Kanyogonya (eds.), Rural press for village post-literacy literature. Afrolit Paper No. 5. The Fifth Biennial Afrolit Society Pan-Africa Literacy Workshop Report. Afrolit Society, Nairobi, Kenya. 93 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23926
Notes:
Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 2 pages., Analysis shows gap between newspaper content and village conditions. Author quotes one village source: "Water, forest and land are traditional system here. Our culture is linked with it. Newspaper should."
