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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2019, Volume : 7, Issue : 4
First page : (507) Last page : (513)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.7802

Construction of Knowledge Test to Measure the Gain in Knowledge of Farmers on Rice Production Technology

M. V. Krishnaji* and T. Gopi Krishna
Ph. D Scholar, Department of Agricultural Extension, Agricultural College, Bapatla - 522101, A. P., India
Principal scientist (Agricultural Extension), O/o Director of Extension, ANGRAU,
Lam, Guntur - 522 034, Andhra Pradesh, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: venkatakrishnaji@gmail.com
Received: 11.07.2019 | Revised: 17.08.2019 | Accepted: 24.08.2019  

 ABSTRACT

In India, two third of the population depending on agriculture directly or indirectly and it contributes around 17.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) of the country. It is extremely difficult to imagine that the national and economic development without the input of external information (Schramm, 1964). Such effective communication is not possible when bulk population lives less accessible and isolated areas of plains and hills. In such situations mass media plays a vital role in involving people for social development. Mass media create empathetic spirit, widens people’s horizon and conducive climate for change and it should be put under service of national development (Bellurkar, 2000). Among the different mass media, television is considered as most powerful media, as an institutionalized source of information for creating awareness about the latest agricultural technology. But, it is very upsetting to note the insufficient coverage of agriculture information in media including print and electronic, which is even less than two percent. This is probably because of the non-lucrative nature of farm information to the media organizers. Hence a detailed study on effect of farm broadcast programmes in terms of gain in knowledge need to be studied. Due to non availability of proper test to measure the knowledge of farmers on rice production technology, it was thought necessary to construct a test for the purpose. Keeping this in view, an attempt has been made to develop a test for measuring the knowledge of farmers towards rice production technology. Relevant items were collected covering all aspects of rice production technology. After getting jury opinion, the difficulty index and discrimination index, reliability and validity for all the items were worked out. To administer the knowledge test a respondent is given one mark for each correct answer and zero mark for each wrong answer. Forty three items were finally selected out of 94 initial items.

Keywords: Rice production technology, Knowledge test, Gain in knowledge, Farm broadcast, Farm telecast, Television.

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Cite this article: Krishnaji, M. V. & Gopi Krishna, T. (2019). Construction of Knowledge Test to Measure the Gain in Knowledge of Farmers on Rice Production Technology, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 7(4), 507-513. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.7802