Joshi, Pushkar Lal (author / Division of Economics and Extension, I.C.A.R., Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur (Rajasthan), India) and Division of Economics and Extension, I.C.A.R., Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur (Rajasthan), India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1977-08
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B05005
Chattopadhyay, S. N. (author), Pareek, Udai (author), and Small Industry Extension Training Institute, Hyderabad, India; Small Industry Extension Training Institute, Hyderabad, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1966
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05108
Scherer, Clifford W. (author), Yarbrough, J. Paul. (author), and Scherer: Associate Professor, Iowa State University; Yarbrough: Professor, Cornell University
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 58 Document Number: C01595
Notes:
AgComm Teaching; See C01581 for original, In: The application of computer technology to communication processes : Proceedings of an NCR-90 Research Conference; 1984 April 15-17; Marriott Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 15-17, 1984. Fargo, ND : North Dakota State University, 1984. p. 171-181
INTERPAKS; see also C07214, Aims to show that it can be of great advantage to the design of a rural development project if the cognitive strategies which lie behind farmers' decisions to adopt new technology are understood. This is done by using a case study of an agronomic recommendation of the Plan Puebla in Mexico which did not diffuse. Of the 1973-4 recommendations, the one to increase the number and change the timing of fertilizer applications was the non-adopted recommendation. The theory of choice used in this study assumes that people choosing between two alternatives do not make complex calculation of the overall worth or utility of each alternative. Instead people tend to use procedures which simplify their decision making calculations.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07214
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: D. Brokensha, D.M. Warren, and O. Werner (eds.). Indigenous knowledge systems and development. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980. p. 9-28
Dasgupta, Satadal (author / Department of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal, Calcutta, India) and Department of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal, Calcutta, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1965-03
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05031
Evans, cited reference, Sources of information vary with the farmers' socioeconomic status and type of practice for which information is sought. When the farmers are divided into three groups-innovators, early adopters, and late adopters-according to immediacy of response to an innovation-the innovators are found to utilize institutionalized sources, while late adopters rely more upon noninstitutionalized sources. The position of early adopters is intermediate. This relationship was tested by interviewing 246 farm families of Baraset region in West Bengal, India about their sources of information for nine improved agricultural practices. (original)
