Socio-Personal, Communication Characteristics and Information Needs of Vegetable Growers of Hill Region of Uttarakhand

The study was conducted to identify the relationship between socio-personal & communication characteristics and information needs for designing distance learning modules for farmers of hill districts of Uttarakhand. One hundred and twenty vegetable growers of four hill districts of Uttarakhand state comprising of Kumaon and Garhwal region were selected for the study. Data were analyzed by using percentage, frequency and chi-square analysis. It was observed that vegetable growers of hill regions of Uttarakhand had moderate to high need for information as well as knowledge. The most important areas in which respondents had high information needs were seed treatment, weed management, disease and pest control, chemical fertilizer application, harvesting, post harvesting and marketing. The findings revealed there were no direct meaningful relationship between information needs and Socio-personal profiles.