Just, R. E. (author), Rausser, G. C. (author), and Zilberman, D. (author)
Format:
Conference proceedings
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
Holland
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08899
Notes:
In D. Yaron and C. S. Tapiero (Eds.), Operations research in agriculture and water resources: proceedings of the ORAGWA Conference held in Jerusalem, November 25-29, 1979 97-121. Amsterdam. North-Holland
11 pages., via online journal., The study aims at exploring the extent of agricultural information literacy of farmers in the northern region of Bangladesh. Besides the review of relevant literature the study conducts a questionnaire-based survey of 160 farmers working in ten districts in the region. The analysis of the survey shows that farmers need information for various purposes of agricultural activities, and they use different sources and media for access to such information. Many of the farmers, however, are not well aware of modern techniques of agriculture, and they occasionally use such techniques for farming. Due to some problems farmers are moderately satisfied in getting agricultural information, and in many cases their satisfaction level is very low. The paper concludes with providing certain recommendations for the improvement of information literacy of the farmers in
Bangladesh.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08909
Notes:
In V. Kumble (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Development and Transfer of Technology for Rainfed Agriculture and the SAT farmer. august 28 - September 1 1979. Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. 83-88
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07388
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: G.E. Jones and M.J. Rolls (eds.), Progress in rural extension and community development. Vol. 1, Extension and relative advantage in rural development. Chicester, U.K.: John Wiley, 1982. p. 87-115., In many developing nations, serious efforts are being made to develop agricultural extension services into systems which can serve the broad masses of small agricultural producers, instead of only a few high-access farmers. Objectives have shifted to providing income-generating opportunities to small farmers; to increasing equity in rural areas; to broaden integrated rural development; or to organize rural people so as to allow them to carry their own development. Discusses the elements of the extension process. When extension objectives change, other elements must also change because the elements form an interconnected whole. Aims to systematically explore the implications of a change in extension objectives for the other elements of the process.
28 pages., via online journal., The purpose of this paper is to understand how Bangladeshi farmers interact with
mobile telephony and how they negotiate the resulting difficulties. In doing so the paper
identifies how farmers integrate mobile telephony into their daily lives and what factors
facilitate and limit their use of mobile telephony
