Laughland, Andrew S. (author), Musser, Wesley N. (author), Ortmann, Gerald F. (author), Patrick, George F. (author), Warland, Rex (author), and Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University; Purdue University; University of Natal, South Africa; Pennsylvania State University
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 98 Document Number: C08044
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: The Information Age: what it means for extension and its constituents. Columbia, MO: Cooperative Extension Service, University of Missouri, 1994. (Proceedings of a North Central Region Extension workshop for marketing and management specialists, May 24-26, 1994, St. Louis, MO.) p. 59-76.
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)
