Volume : 3, Issue : 3, March - 2014

Information Seeking Behaviour of the Farmers in Unchahar–Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh: A Survey

Manoj Kumar

Abstract :

 Agriculture is the main occupation of the peoples in India. A large population is engaged in the agriculture sector. In this paper the researcher had tried to understand the information seeking behaviour of farmers in Unchahar tehsil of Raebareli district of Uttar Pradesh. Here an attempt is made to understand information needs of farmers, sources used by them and what are the channels of information gathering. A survey is carried out on the 150 farmers of the tehsil, 50 farmers from each three development blocks of Unchahar were selected for the study.