Pages 77-78 in Extension Service Circular 544, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of thesis for the master of science, Michigan State University, East Lansing. 1962. 205 pages.
15 pages., The aim of this research was to investigate the agricultural information sources and strategies for disseminating agricultural research findings to farmers in Iringa District, Tanzania. A total of 90 farmers were interviewed by using a self-administered questionnaire. The statistical Package for Service Solutions (SPSS) software and Spreadsheet were used as instruments to analyse the findings. Results of this study indicate that radios, church leaders, village leaders and seminars are the main channels of information used by extension officers to disseminate agricultural information to farmers. With regard to strategies the study revealed that, the use of religious leaders and government officials; use of primary school teachers and pupils; non-political interference; repackaging and packaging of technical information reports; deployment of extension officers in rural areas; use of community-based organisations and the establishment of agricultural information boards were the main effective strategies for disseminating agricultural research information to farmers. It is therefore, concluded that radio, church leaders, seminars, Newspapers, brochures and fliers should be intensively used to disseminate agricultural information among farmers so as to raise productivity in their farms. The study suggest that, there is a need to use other disseminators such as influential people, religious leaders, political leaders, primary school teachers and pupils to disseminate such information in addition to repackaging of agricultural research findings to tailor it to the farmers’ needs.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 50 Document Number: C00344
Notes:
AgComm teaching; Also see C02552 in Box 66. Delmar Hatesohl Collection., Paper presented at the Agricultural Communication Conference, Univ. of Missouri 1982, 8pp
Momonoki, Tokuhiro (author), Sasaki, Yutaka (author), Ikeda, Hou-ou (author), Kanetani, Yutaka (author), Sasaki, Yasuhiro (author), and Food and Fertilizer Technology Center for the Asian and Pacific Region, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Japan
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C37013
