Sources of Information Used by Farm Women in Adoption of Food Grain Storage

P. J . Uplap; N. S. Lohar

Sources of Information Used by Farm Women in Adoption of Food Grain Storage

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension, Padmashree Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Agri. Business Management, Akurdi, Pune (M.S.), India
2 Padmashree Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Agri-Business Management, Akurdi, Pune (M.S.), India

The study was undertaken to find the sources of information used by the farm women in adoption of foodgrains storage. The results revealed that the majority (61.77 per cent) of farm women obtained information from relatives/neighbours/friends. In case of personal cosmopolite (35.30 per cent) of women obtained information from Agricultural Assistant. Nearly 15.29 per cent obtained information from the sources viz. meetings and discussions i.e. from group media, while in case of mass contact, majority (37.05 per cent) of them used radio as source of information.