Mody, Bella (author) and Shingi, Prakash M. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1974-08
Published:
India: Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21627
Notes:
103 pages, The content of two Krishi-Darshan programmes was analyzed. From 50 to 62 percent of the televised information was already known to the farmers. Of the new items of information that the two telecasts presented, on the average, only 40 percent were learnt; the remaining 60 percent were unrecalled or lost.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29304
Notes:
Presented to the Midwest Sociological Society. 12 pages., "It is believed that this is the first time these five stages of diffusion (awareness, information, evaluation, trial and adoption) have been tested empirically." Involves use of 2,4-D herbicide for field weed control.
Beal, George M. (author / Iowa State University) and Bohlen, Joe M. (author / Iowa State University)
Format:
Presentation
Publication Date:
1967-06
Published:
International: First International Congress of Farm Writers.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 73 Document Number: D10793
Notes:
Item located in Document 10786. Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Pages 67-77 in J.S. Cram (ed.), Proceedings of the first International Congress of Farm Writers at Macdonald College, Quebec, Canada, June 18-21, 1967. 112 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12688
Notes:
Pages 119-134 in Bruce R. Crouch and Shankariah Chamala (eds.), Extension education and rural development. Volume 1 - International experience in communication and innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester. 371 p.
Online from UI Library subscription., Study examined interpersonal influence during the diffusion of agricultural innovation in a rural district of Pakistan. Findings revealed that interpersonal communication had a major role in agricultural activities, particularly that farmers were motivated through face-to-face discussion.
