Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25909
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Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Indo-Asian News Service via Media South Asia. 2 pages., Features a radio station supported by an engineering college. It broadcasts for four hours each morning, with a similar rebroadcast each evening.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23514
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The New Agriculturist On-Line. 5 pages., Highlighted remarks from a seminar on this subject sponsored by the CTA (Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation in EU-ACP Countries), Government of Mozambique and the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23926
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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."
