Agricultural Magazines Research Articles

A Study on Mass Media Preferences and Constraints Faces by the Farmers in Imphal East District Manipur

A research study was conducted during March–April, 2023 at Imphal East, Manipur, India to gain insights into the preferences and constraints of farmers concerning their utilization of mass media. Two blocks were select randomly and from each block two villages were selected randomly; a total 120 respondents were interviewed through structured scheduled. Mean, frequency, percentage and garret ranking method were used to analysis the data and to find out the appropriate result. The outcomes illuminated that, among the farmers, mobile phones emerged as the most favored mass media, trailed by television, radio, newspapers, and agricultural magazines. The major constraints faced by farmers in the case of television were a lack of market availability of suggested inputs (59.16%), a lack of use of a complex technical word (44.16%) in radio, a lack of use of a complex technical word (46.66%) in newspapers, no one subscribe to any farm magazine (94.16%) in farm magazines, and a lack of awareness of mobile applications related to agriculture (56.66%) on mobile phones. This study underscores the pivotal role of mass media in rural areas and highlights the challenges tied to specific mass media.

No farmer in the field! The Belgian agricultural organisations and the 1971 demonstration(s) against the Mansholt Plan

On 23 March 1971, approximately one hundred thousand farmers protested in Brussels against the Mansholt plan. The vast majority of them were Belgian farmers who responded en masse to the ubiquitous call from the Belgian farming organisations for “No farmer in the field”. This article analyses newspapers, agricultural magazines, archival records, and interviews to unravel the motivations, strategies, roles, and internal dynamics of various agricultural organisations in Belgium involved in preparing, organising, and evaluating the protest. The 1971 demonstration represents a significant turning point. It has become ingrained in collective memory, symbolising the conclusive end of an era in agriculture. Largely mobilised by major agricultural organisations and influenced by smaller, more radical groups, the protest marks the emergence of a cross-border agricultural alliance opposing substantial reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Readability of Some Egyptian Agricultural Magazines among Extension Employees in Minia Governorate

Readability of Some Egyptian Agricultural Magazines among Extension Employees in Minia Governorate

KNOWLEDGE OF FARMERS TOWARDS PRIVATIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES IN GANJAM DISTRICT OF ODISHA

A vast country like India cannot afford to ignore ever increasing role of PAES carried out by many individuals and agencies like Agricultural consultants, group of progressive farmers, mass media like newspapers, TV, agricultural magazines, non-government organizations, private sector banks etc. Today the challenge is not the same. Finding better market for surplus produced decides Indian agriculture. Limited rescores in extension compel to look for the support of other extension system, thus opened thinking on private extension. The present extension system has ultimatum for reshaping and strengthening the structural design for the delivery of agricultural technology and services as needed by the farming community. The study was conducted in Ganjam District of Odisha purposively for investigating socio-economic status and the association of independent variables with farmers’ knowledge towards Privatization of Agricultural Extension Services. Descriptive research design was used for the present study. A total of 120 respondents were selected purposively as a sample for the present investigation. The data was collected by using pre-tested schedule and analyzed using appropriate statistical tools. Karl Pearson’s Co-efficient of Correlation test was applied to find out the association between farmers knowledge with independent variables. The major findings of the study were the socio-economic status of the respondents was found to be of medium level, the knowledge of the respondents towards PAES had significant association with the Age, Annual income, Education, Land holding Mass Media Exposure, Extension contact, Risk orientation, and scientific orientation. From the study, it is clear that PAES has become essential in our country to increase the competitiveness in the world and give justice to our farmers. At the same time, it requires great caution about problems and constraints emerged in PAES. Keeping this points stated above the present study was undertaken in Ganjam district of Odisha with the following objectives: « To determine the socio-economic status of the respondents. « To ascertain the association between independent variables and knowledge of farmers towards Privatization of Agricultural Extension Service (PAES).

Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Knowledge and Positions of German Farmers

Climate mitigation targets must involve the agricultural sector, which contributes 10%–14% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To evaluate options for implementing mitigation measures in the agricultural sector, farmers’ knowledge, positions, and attitudes towards agricultural GHG emissions, their accounting, and reduction need to be understood. Using an online survey, we asked 254 German farmers about their motivation to reduce GHG emissions and their acceptance of possible regulation schemes. We examined differences between relevant farming sectors, i.e., conventional versus organic and livestock keeping versus crop-cultivating farms. Results show that German farmers are aware of climatic changes and feel a general commitment to reducing GHG emissions but lack sufficient information. We identified agricultural magazines as the most effective tool for disseminating relevant knowledge. German farmers would feel motivated to adopt climate-friendly farming styles if products were labeled accordingly and if they received subsidies and public acknowledgment for their effort. As long as there is no regulation of agricultural GHGs through taxes or subsidies, personal motivation is yet the strongest motivation for voluntary emission reduction. Our findings are timely for the further development of strategies and instruments that reduce agricultural GHG emission and account for the farmers’ views. The dataset is available for further investigations.

Agricultural unions of Eastern Siberia in the late 19th - the early 20th century: the main forms of out-of-school education and the channels of popularization of agricultural knowledge

The research object is agricultural unions formed in Eastern Siberia in the late 19th - the early 20th century. The research subject is reflected in the title of the article. The purpose of the research is to define the forms of agricultural education and the channels of popularization of agricultural knowledge among the broad public. To achieve this goal, the author analyzes, based on the dynamics of agricultural unions formation, the initiation and dynamics of the change of the main directions of work and the extent to which the forms of education corresponded to the aspirations of the authorities, the demands of the progressive public, and the practical needs of rural population. Generally, the work of East-Siberian agricultural unions was definitely less active than the work of the unions of the European part of Russia. That could be explained by the lack of educated employees, the difficulty of using the new agricultural approaches in risk farming areas, and the low literacy rate of the rural population. However, in the first decade of the 20th century, the work of agricultural unions became more active, which was determined, among other things, by the change of the authorities’ attitude and the channels of popularization of agricultural knowledge: exhibitions and public lectures were organized, libraries were founded, and books and magazines were sent out. The ways of rational farm management were popularized via special newspapers and agricultural magazines. Before and during the World War I the agricultural unions of Irkutsk province and Transbaikal started actively creating the branches in rural areas. Agricultural unions created the atmosphere of public interest, broadened and clarified the ideas of society about the needs of Siberian villages.   

Communication behaviour and economic motivation of sugarcane growers in western Uttar Pradesh

The present study was conducted in the two districts of Western Uttar Pradesh. The total sample size was of 200 sugarcane growers and ex-post-facto research design was used for this study. The data was collected with the help of pre-tested interview schedule. The results of this study revealed that most of the sugarcane growers used neighbours, progressive farmers, Cane supervisors, officers of sugar mills, village leaders, co-operative societies, agriculture department, BDO/ADO/VDO (Block offices), farmer's fair, input dealers, scientists of university, scientists of research station and scientists of K.V.K, as information sources. However, neighbours, progressive farmers and input dealers were found as major information sources. Whereas, television, mobile phone, news paper, pamphlet/folder and agricultural magazines were important mass media channels for information seeking about sugarcane cultivation. Economic motivation was attempted this work, majority of the respondents (76%) were medium level of economic motivation of sugarcane growers regarding sugarcane cultivation practices.

AGRICULTURAL PERIODICALS OF RUSSIA IN THE EARLY XX CENTURY

The article deals with the distribution of agricultural periodicals on the territory of the Russian Em-pire in the early twentieth century. Before that there were practically no publications on the pages of sci-entific magazines. Great emphasis is placed on the analysis of agricultural magazines published before 1917 in the Upper Volga region, namely in Vladimir, Kostroma, Tver and Yaroslavl provinces. Thanks to existed in pre-revolutionary Russian periodicals on agricultural subjects advanced knowledge of agron-omy, agriculture, soil science, horticulture, fruit growing, vegetable growing, winemaking, viticulture, 135 tobacco growing, livestock, poultry, bee-keeping, veterinary medicine, forestry, and hunting, land man-agement, irrigation, horse breeding were promoted. On the basis of statistical data, office documentation and other published sources, the author draws conclusions about the degree of accessibility of agricul-tural periodicals for the population, including the peasantry. Availability of agricultural periodicals largely depended on its price, so the author studied the situation with the cost of the annual subscription fee of these publications. The article investigates the issues of periodicity of agricultural magazines and newspapers, the exact number of such publications, as well as their subject matter. Existence duration of different types of periodicals is analyzed, the main publishers of magazines and newspapers, places of their publication are revealed. A prominent place is given to the publishing activities of agricultural pub-lic organizations and zemstvo self-government bodies. It is concluded that natural process of agricultural knowledge distribution among the population of Russia through publications on the pages of periodicals was disrupted by revolutionary events of 1917.

Guerra de Mieles: Hipótesis Para Una Historia Ambiental de la Miel de Abeja En Costa Rica (1906-2014)

El presente trabajo intenta poner de manifiesto las tensiones que caracterizaron el desarrollo de la producción de miel de abeja en Costa Rica, particularmente su competencia con la producción y consumo de azúcar, el combate de plagas y la deforestación. Para ello se recurre al análisis de revistas agrícolas, artículos publicados sobre la temática, así como a los anuarios estadísticos y los censos agropecuarios del periodo. El artículo inicia con una breve ubicación sobre el surgimiento de la apicultura en Costa Rica para luego adentrarse en la caracterización de dicha actividad en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Posteriormente se analizan las principales situaciones que enfrentó la apicultura desde la década de 1940 con el combate de plagas como la langosta y el efecto de la llegada de la abeja africanizada en la década de 1980, para cerrar con algunas aproximaciones a la situación actual en un contexto de cambio climático.

PM 9/26 (1) National regulatory control system for Globodera pallida and Globodera rostochiensis

Specific scopeThis Standard describes a national regulatory control system for Globodera pallida and Globodera rostochiensis.

Comparative perception of readers towards the components of agricultural magazines

Comparative perception of readers towards the components of agricultural magazines

Aspiration of Agriculture Polytechnic School students

The present study on aspiration of agriculture polytechnic school students was conducted in the year 2016-2017 in Amravati district. The study revealed that the variables i.e. academic performance, rural/urban background, land holding, family education, parental occupation, family income and institutional impact showed positive and significant relationship at 0.01 level of probability and gender showed negatively non-significant relationship with aspiration. The constraints faced by the students were poor institutional impact at the agriculture polytechnic schools, lack of arrange educational tours, lack of the library facilities to the students, lack of discussion on agriculture regarding current affairs, lack of priority to competitive exams, lack of availability of sports education, lack of agricultural magazines, lack of audio–visual aids to study, lack of actual training to students, lack of lack of internet facility, lack of regular practical knowledge to the students.

Poultry Farmers' Information Needs and Sources in Selected Rural Communities in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana

ABSTRACTA survey was conducted to assess poultry farmers' information needs and sources in selected rural communities in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Data were collected from 150 poultry farmers in 13 communities. Information on disease management, egg storage, feeding and nutrition, vaccination, shelter, pesticide application, marketing of poultry products, and debeaking were the major information needs of the poultry farmers in the study area. The major sources of information for the poultry farmers were from family and friends, the Internet, books, the veterinary office, leaflets, television, researchers, and newspapers. Some of the major constraints faced by poultry farmers when accessing information include lack of skills to access information, inadequate information resources on poultry, inadequate veterinary officers, lack of information centers, and inappropriate airing time of agricultural program on radio stations. The study recommended that community libraries and information centers should be established: It is important that such rural libraries and information centers should contain simple agricultural reading materials, such as leaflets, agricultural magazines, books, and research reports that are written in non-technical language. The veterinary service department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture should identify relevant sources and use them to deliver information to the poultry farmers.

Readability of Some Egyptian Agricultural Magazines مقروئیة بعض المجلات الزراعیة المصریة

يهدف هذا البحث إلى قياس درجة مقروئية بعض المجلات الزراعية في مصر بإستخدام معادلتي فليش لسهولة القراءة والاهتمام الانساني.وقد رکزت الدراسة على جميع الأعداد لأربع مجلات زراعية خلال العام 2016 وتلک المجلات هي الصحيفة الزراعية، والإرشاد الزراعي، وعالم الفکر الزراعي، والإرشاد الزراعي في الأراضي الجديدة.ولتطبيق معادلتي فليش، تم الإختيار العشوائي لصفحتين من کل عدد من أعداد المجلات (صفحة تمثل النصف الأول من صفحات کل مجلة وصفحة تمثل النصف الثاني)، وتم اختيار أول 100 کلمة من کل صفحة مختارة، ليصبح عدد الکلمات الکلي من کل عدد من أعداد کل مجلة 200 کلمة لتطبيق معادلتي فليش. وتشير النتائج إلى أن مجلة الصحيفة الزراعية جاءت في المرتبة الأولى من حيث سهولة القراءة (بمتوسط طول جملة قدره 14.12 کلمة/جملة) وکان محتواها قياسي، وفي المرتبة الثانية والثالثة کل من مجلة الإرشاد الزراعي في الأراضي الجديدة ومجلة عالم الفکر الزراعي حيث بلغ متوسط طول الجملة نحو 17.14، 18.18 کلمة/جملة لکل منهما على الترتيب وکان محتوى کل منهما صعبا إلى حد ما، وجاءت مجلة الإرشاد الزراعي في المرتبة الأخيرة من حيث سهولة القراءة حيث بلغ متوسط طول الجملة المستخدمة فيها نحو 21.05 کلمة/جملة وهو ما استدعى وصف محتواها بالصعب. أما فيما يتعلق بدرجة الإهتمام الإنساني للمجلات محل الدراسة، فتشير النتائج إلى أن مجلة الإرشاد الزراعي قد وقعت ضمن فئة المحتوى المشوق بحصولها على درجة اهتمام انساني قدرها 25.70 درجة، أما المجلات الثلاث الأخري فقد وقعت جميعها ضمن فئة المحتوى متوسط التشويق حيث جاءت في المرتبة الثانية مجلة الصحيفة الزراعية (17.20 درجة)، ثم مجلة الإرشاد الزراعي في الأراضي الجديدة (15.72 درجة)، واحتلت مجلة عالم الفکر الزراعي المرتبة الأخيرة من حيث الاهتمام الانساني حيث حصلت على 13.32 درجة وفقا لمعادلة فليش للإهتمام الإنساني. وقد خلص البحث إلى أن مجلة الصحيفة الزراعية ذات محتوى قياسي/متوسط التشويق، مجلة الإرشاد الزراعي ذات محتوى صعب/ مشوق، مجلة عالم الفکر الزراعي ومجلة الإرشاد الزراعي في الأراضي الجديدة ذوات محتوى صعب إلى حد ما/مشوق، کما أوصت الدراسة بعدد من الاجراءات التي من شأنها زيادة مقروئية المجلات محل الدراسة.

The use of sources of information professional for rural residents

The article presents sources and a scope of professional information which was researched by Polish and British village citizens as well as a comparative analysis of the preferences of both groups in the study area. The empirical research was conducted in November and December 2015 among 147 farmers and agriculture-related living in Poland and among 76 farmers and agriculture-related living in the UK. The results of the comparative analysis show that the source of expert information for both groups were mostly websites of the manufacturers and distributors of agricultural inputs (almost ¾ of responses) and agricultural magazines (over ⅔ responses). In order to solve professional problems Poles more often than the Brits used the social media as well as used state consultants, but the British used private advisory services more frequently than the Polish. In both countries, respondents were interested in a variety of information on agriculture and environment. However, British respondents paid more attention to the innovation aspect of agriculture than Polish citizens from the countryside, while the Poles were more interested in the agricultural production than those polled in the UK.

Misogyny and Misery on the Menu

Misogyny and Misery on the Menu

Árvores de boa semente: silvicultura, preservação da natureza e agricultura na Primeira República

Este artigo é uma análise do pensamento em prol da silvicultura e da preservação das florestas brasileiras e do seu papel na organização e feitura do Serviço Florestal no Brasil durante a Primeira República. Foram analisados também a forte vinculação dessas ideias com os setores agrícolas. Nesse sentido, é um estudo sobre a valorização da ciência no Brasil e sua inserção tanto na agricultura como na exploração das riquezas naturais, mas especificamente, as florestas. Aborda com esse intuito o pensamento de cientistas, agricultores e estadistas reproduzidos em uma documentação que envolve o Ministério da Agricultura, revistas científicas e agrícolas, folhetos das secretárias da agricultura, dentre outros. Enfim, privilegia-se uma perspectiva teórica fundada na História ambiental, sintonizando o trabalho com questões econômicas.

Popularization of Print Media through “Village Library” at Village Level: An Efficient Tool to Enhance the Productivity

Agricultural technology is moving so quickly, and in so many directions, that it has become challenging to even pay attention—we are victims of “next new thing” fatigue. The parade of new technologies and scientific breakthroughs is relentless and is unfolding on many fronts. Almost any advance is advocated as a breakthrough, and the list of “next big thing” goes on adding one after the other. Yet some technologies do in fact have the potential to disrupt the status quo, alter the way people live and work, rearrange value pools and lead to entirely new products and services. Public agricultural extension systems often fail due to inadequate consultation of farmers about their information needs and poor understanding of their information search strategies. The present study intends to identify various agricultural magazines as sources for technology access through village library to farmers, with the socio-economic characteristics. A proportionate sample of 120 respondents was selected at random and the data were collected with the help of a pre-tested and validated questionnaire and were analyzed by using computer software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results reveal that more than 65 per cent farmers who were youth had a quest for new technological interventions, local language was preferred more owing to low qualification levels.

The Influence of Information Sources on Inter- and Intra-Firm Diffusion: Evidence from UK Farming

We study the effect of different information sources on diffusion between and within companies. Our model of economically optimising farmers replicates results from dual process persuasion theory, and predicts that inter-firm diffusion will be primarily affected by reliable, easily accessible information while intra-firm diffusion will be influenced by technical information. The results are tested on UK farming data. Consistent with our model, information from agents, suppliers, farmers, and agricultural magazines influences inter-firm adoption, from buyers influences intra-firm adoption, and from crop consultants, academics, government, and an industry body influences both.

Analysis of effective factors to increase the knowledge of agricultural production cooperative members in Semnan Province, Iran

The main purpose of this study was to analyze the effective factors to increase the knowledge of agricultural cooperative members in Semnan Province. It is an applied research for which a descriptivecorrelation method is chosen. The dependant variable was the effectiveness of extension education activities to promote the knowledge of the members in agriculture and production cooperative. Independent variables were formed in five groups including personal, social and economical, educational activities and farming characteristics. Statistical population of the study consisted of 3357 members of agricultural production cooperative who had participated in the extension education course. Using Cochran formula, 209 persons were selected and at last 209 questionnaires were collected and analyzed. The content and face validity of the instrument was specified after several times of review and correction by the faculty members of agricultural extension and education of Islamic Azad University. The reliability was conducted using Cronbach's alpha which estimated 91% using SPSS 16 software. The results gained from Spearman coefficient correlation showed that there is a significant relationship between variables including: main jobs, consulting with agricultural experts, visiting a sample farm and model cooperative company, watching educational videos and films, having communications with extension agents, having scientific trips, participating in educational and training workshops, reading agricultural publications and magazines, taking part in agricultural extension and research programs, envisage educational contents, the abilities and capabilities of constructors, educational technologies, humanistic development and members' participating in planning and implementing programs along with the effectiveness of educational and agricultural extension activities. The result yielded from the collective influence of the independent variables on the effectiveness of the educational and agricultural courses as a dependent variable through a multivariable regression in a step by step way indicated that developmental roles of agriculture, educational resources, educational method, and crop-production stages explained 53.8% of changes on the dependent variable of knowledge.