Reading Habits of the Farmers

H. S. Dharurkar; S. P. Gaikwad; B. N. Tambe

Reading Habits of the Farmers

H. S. Dharurkar ¹, S. P. Gaikwad ², B. N. Tambe ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension, Education, College of Agriculture, Baramati, Pune (M.S.), India
2 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Baramati, Pune (M.S.), India
3 Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Baramati, Pune (M.S.), India

The present study was undertaken in 10 villages of Akola Panchyat Samiti of Akola district of Maharashtra State. The main object was to study the reading habits of farmers. From this study, it was found that the majority of the respondents were at medium level of reading habit about news paper, magazines and overall literature. Majority of them liked to read agricultural information from magazine. They read news paper as whole publication. They liked to read them in their home. They used to send only thirty minutes per day for reading. They used the information in their field what ever they read form literature.