7 p., The increasing use of computers on the farm raises the question of whether these new skills will be valued in off-farm employment. Data suggests that computers are used predominantly for a single group of tasks that may not develop the "systems skills" that are becoming increasingly important in off-farm employment.
Pages 53-54 in Extension Service Circular 544, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of dissertation for the doctor of philosophy degree in agricultural economics, University of Illinois, Urbana. 1962. 271 pages.
Sassenrath, G.F. (author), Halloran, J.M. (author), Archer, D. (author), Raper, R.L. (author), Hendrickson, J. (author), Vadas, P. (author), and Hanson, J. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37236
Bultena, Gordon L. (author), Hoiberg, E. (author), and Iowa State University, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology; Iowa State University, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 53 Document Number: C00792
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26069
Notes:
From Centre for Alternative Agricultural Media, Karnataka, India, via www.southnexus.com. 2 pages., Within a question-answer format, author offers his idea on farmers and the media.
9 pages., via online journal., A large body of research documents cross-cultural differences in manual and non-manual pointing. These findings have often been explained as being due to pragmatic, linguistic, cultural, and bodily constraints. The current study narrowed the plausible range of candidates for explaining the pointing preferences, focusing specifically on manual availability. We examined pointing preferences by administering a referential communication task in two types of communities which share a national identity, geographic environment, ethnicity, cultural background, and language and yet vary in their degree of hand availability: farming and herding communities in southwestern China. Our findings show that farmers, who emphasize the use of manual labour in intensive subsistence farming, were more likely to use non-manual pointing in the task than herders, who demonstrate a higher degree of manual availability in the rearing of animals. This research has implications for how the availability of the hands in economic activities may have lasting consequences on cultural pointing practices.
Sengupta, T. (author / Social Scientist, Socio-Economic and Evaluation Branch, Department of Agricultural / C.D., West Bengal, India) and Social Scientist, Socio-Economic and Evaluation Branch, Department of Agricultural / C.D., West Bengal, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1970-09
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 39 Document Number: B04464
