Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 2

Assessment of Information Needs of Farmers about Mustard Production Technology

  • Author:
  • Kamlesh Kumar Chaurasiya, Prashant Sharma
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 118 to 119

College of Agriculture, RVSKVV, Gwalior, M.P.

Online published on 12 January, 2015.

Abstract

The study was based on primary data collected from 110 randomly selected farmers of Ater block of Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh. In this study, an attempt was made to find out the information needs of mustard growers. The result of the study revealed that most of the mustard growers have high information needs. The study further indicates that education, landholding, annual income, social participation, risk preference, farming experience, utilization of different source of information, knowledge and adoption behaviour were found to be positively corelated with information need.

Keywords

Mustard growers, Production technology, Information need