The Indian Society of Extension Education
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 50
  • Issue: 1and2

Scientific Temperament of Farmers and Their Correlates

  • Author:
  • Alok Kumar1, C. Prasad2, B. P. Mishra3, Triveni Dutt4
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 46 to 48

1Assistant Professor, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, India

2Ex-Deputy Director General (Agricultural Extension), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India

3Assistant Professor, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, India

4Principal, Dev Nagrik College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

Online published on 7 August, 2015.

Abstract

This investigation attempted to identify the factors which determine the scientific temperament of farmers. An exhaustive survey was conducted in 5 Blocks of Saran district of Bihar. It was found that education, social participation, farm size, farm power, farm Implements and irrigation potentiality were positively and significantly related to communication behaviour and scientific temperament of farmers at 5 per cent level of significance. Age and credit behaviour were not significantly related to scientific temperament.

Keywords

Communication behaviour, scientific temperament, correlates, farmers