Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D11605
Notes:
2 pages., Masters thesis - technical journalism, Kansas State College, Manhattan. 56 pages., Report of farmer interviews in Gear County, Kansas, assessing their readership and perceptions of agricultural publications distributed by the Agricultural Extension Service. Questions also invited their suggestions for improving access to desired agricultural information.
Claar, John B. (author), Dahl, Delbert T. (author), and Watts, L.H. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 48 Document Number: C00026
Notes:
AgComm Teaching, Urbana, IL: INTERPAKS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 27 pp. (International Agriculture Publication INTERPAKS Series No. 1)
Personal interviews with 336 small-acreage sugarcane growers indicated that less than half had any knowledge of the public extension services available. Growers who were aware of extension services and sought information from extension achieved substantially higher average yields than growers who did not. Authors recommended that the Pakistan government review current extension services and consider strengthening them.
See abstract in folder of Document No. D06143., Abstract of poster presentation at North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture conference, Athens, Georgia, June 16-20., "eXtension has not been adopted among Iowa Extension professionals as founders intended it would be and has the potential to become a disruptive innovation..." Only 15 percent of study participants indicated using eXtension in their work.
