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2. ICT platform for climate change adaption in agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Singh, Dineshkumar (author), Piplani, Divya (author), Nar, Siddhesh (author), Karthik, Srinivasan (author), Sharma, Rahul (author), and Tiwari, Aditya (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2015-01-06
- Published:
- IEEE
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10972
- Notes:
- 6 pages., Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4799-8439-8, 2015 7th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Climate change is now more visible in the form of frequent changes in the weather patterns leading to severe drought or floods. It endangers the food security, especially shrinking of cultivable land and increasing population. Agricultural Research Institutes are working on new cropping patterns, new heat and flood tolerant varieties and cultivation practices. However in the absence of sound knowledge extension system the results of such massive and costly research do not reach its end users, in this case farmers, on time. This research paper talks about the, National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) pilot conducted to develop strategies to enhance Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in vulnerable regions in India. As part of this research, extensive field demonstrations and data analysis were done to demonstrate how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can play a crucial role in establishing a two way connect between the Research Lab and the end users of research. While Agricultural research can focus on identification of current and future risks to livelihoods due to climatic variability and development or identification of regional climate specific crop varieties and crop practices, the IT and ICT can work jointly to use the outcome of such research to spread awareness and promote the use of such varieties and practices in adaptation by farmers and other stakeholders through an ICT platform.
3. Information Needs and Seeking Behavior of Agricultural Community of Attabira area of Bargarh District, Odisha: A Survey
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Panda, Abinash (author), Rani Dash, Lipsa (author), and Panda, Debasmita (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Published:
- United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12355
- Journal Title:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Notes:
- 27 pages., The study on the information-seeking behavior of the agricultural community was undertaken in the attabira area of bargarh district of Odisha with objectives to study the different areas in which they require information frequently and determine the sources through which they rely on. It was found that most of the people are dependent upon agriculture in the attabira area. They started working at the age of 18. Most of the farmers (85.6%) of farmers opted for pooja seeds for cultivation. The study shows 7.36% of the respondents are facing difficulties in irrigation facilities. About 78.9% of the people are talking about MSP (Minimum support price). About 7.3% of farmers gathered information from social media, TV, Call centers, etc. It is observed that the highest numbers of people are talking from a nationalized bank. The farmers were getting information from various sources like TV media, print media, etc. The library plays a crucial role in the dissemination of knowledge. The farmer knowledge center was established where they could get their query solved. The knowledge centers need to provide the right information at the right time in a personal way. The result reveals that a large number of people of the attabira district are influenced by socio-economic variables.
4. Information Needs and Use of Information Sources by the Farmers: A Survey of Kurukshetra District, Haryana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Singh, Joginder (author) and Kumar, Rajiv (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International: International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12197
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10 Issue 4
- Notes:
- 7 pages., The study highlighted the information needs and information sources used by the farmers of Kurukshetra district. Data were elicited through the questionnaire. All the farmers needed information on availability and use of pesticides, fertilizers for the crop, disease, pest, weed control, knowing and selling market prices of crops followed by government schemes/policies (98.1%), variety and new cropping system, availability of seeds (96.2%), Agricultural loan (73.1%), weather/weather forecast (73.1%), etc. The majority of the respondents (59.6%) were using newspapers in which Dainik Bhaskar (46.2%) was the first choice of farmers and (30.8%) banners and wall paintings were also assisted. Mobile phones (69.2%) and Television (67.3%) were major electronic sources among them. All the respondents were using these sources to increase agricultural production, availability and know the current market prices. While (90.4%) were using proper use of fertilizers/medicines/pesticides and curing diseases followed by (82.7%) know about new agricultural technology, weather (76.9%). Insufficient information literacy, information communication technology (ICT) skills (87.7%), and inadequate training opportunities (61.5%) were the main constraints faced by farmers. Satisfaction was high in electronic sources (53.8%) than print information (23.1%) sources for their agricultural information among the farmers of Kurukshetra.
5. Minutes of the advisory committee meeting for the Centre of Advanced Studies in Agricultural Communication, held at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 1981-02-16
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 122 Document Number: D11133
- Notes:
- 9 pages., From the file, "India - G.B. Pant University," in the international file of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., Discussion emphasized that the nature of agricultural communication needs a flexible approach rather than the rigid procedures laid down for the program. Committee members emphasized need to focus on features of India culture and society, deliberately departing from "the Western-oriented communication technologies and a systematic attempt to use what is relevant in these to develop packages based on our own understanding of socio-cultural pattern of society." They offered a dozen other recommendations about approaches to this graduate program.
6. Recent additions to the SEA-Extension Repository - International 1980
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Byrn, Darcie (author)
- Format:
- Bibliography
- Publication Date:
- 1980
- Published:
- USA: SEA-Extension, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08733
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, Directory of citations, organized by country. 22 pages.
7. Social Network Analysis for efficient delivery of Agricultural Extension Services
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tripathi, Rohit (author) and Devi, Kalyanee (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2020-01-01
- Published:
- International: IEEE
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12217
- Journal Title:
- 2020 11th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)
- Journal Title Details:
- 2020
- Notes:
- Social Networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp are now becoming very popular tools that are used for sharing the latest and important farming based information in different part of India. These tools are now widely used by Agricultural Extension and Advisory services to interact with the farmers for exchanging agricultural related information in India. The most influential farmers in a network can disseminate the information to the less central farmers of the network. The extension functionaries that promote the agricultural innovation will share the information with the most central members which in turn will share it with maximum number of the members of a social network. Social Network Analysis (SNA) acts as an efficient analytical tool that helps us to understand the relationship between farmer stakeholders and the importance of a farmer's position in the entire network. In this paper, a structural analysis of the Social Network is performed over two datasets, namely, Facebook-like dataset and Twitter Lists dataset. Here, we have studied the importance of individual nodes in the network through various centrality measures. SNA properties like centralities are used to represent the most central nodes that can act as a good influence spreader in the network. In this paper, initially the k-core decomposition method is used to find a set of influential nodes among all the nodes in the network. It is done to reduce the computational time. Our simulation shows that the nodes with higher Page Rank centrality can activate more members in a network as compared to other centrality measures. For Information diffusion, we have used Linear Threshold (LT) Model to understand the influence spread of the central farmers in the network.
8. Solidarity and silence in subaltern organizing
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pal, Mahuya (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: D06977
- Journal Title:
- Conference Papers -- International Communication Association
- Journal Title Details:
- 2011 Annual Meeting
9. Some implications of the sociological research on diffusion and adoption of farm practices and their application to extension education
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jalihal, K.A. (author)
- Format:
- Review
- Publication Date:
- 1961-07
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08418
- Journal Title:
- Review of Extension Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 1960
- Notes:
- Page 69 in Extension Circular 534, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1960, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Brief description of a thesis of this title for the master of science degree in agricultural extension, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 1960. 199 pages.