Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23930
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Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 3 pages., Describes the approach of a vernacular fortnightly published in Orissa's Western Nuapada district. "Besides being interactive and people-centred, the newspaper makes people cognizant of their rights."
USA: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 111 Document Number: C10788
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329 pages., Biography of Burridge D. Butler, owner of Prairie Farmer state farm paper, Radio Station WLS, Chicago, Illinois, and other media organizations in Arizona during his industrious career. Chronicles the history of these two major mass media organizations which he came to control early in the 1900s.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12871
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Proceedings of seminars organised by the Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) at Jaipur, Dhenkanal and Madras, India, during 1994, Chapter 1 in V.S. Gupta and Rajeshwar Dyal (eds.), Rural press: problems and prospects. Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, India. 106 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22983
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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."
