Televiewing Behaviour of Rural Women towards Agricultural Programme: A Case Study in Latur, Maharashtra, India

The aim of the study is to find out the extent of usage of agricultural programme on television by rural women, study the viewing behaviour and time spent for agricultural programme and identify the preferences of rural women with reference to agricultural programmes on television. The findings of...

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Main Authors: P. G. Waghmare, D. D. Suradkar, K. Venkatesha
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Published: Puspa Publishing House 2015-05-01
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Online Access:https://ojs.pphouse.org/index.php/IJEP/article/view/4406
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author P. G. Waghmare
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description The aim of the study is to find out the extent of usage of agricultural programme on television by rural women, study the viewing behaviour and time spent for agricultural programme and identify the preferences of rural women with reference to agricultural programmes on television. The findings of the study is majority 60.94 of the respondents belonged to middle age group, 32.03% educated up to secondary school level, 81.26% rural women had medium family size, 81.25% of rural women had medium annual income, higher percentage 64.84% of respondents were found in medium land holding category, (82.03%) of the rural women had medium social participation, 70.31% of the respondents had medium level of mass media use, 64.84% of rural women had medium level of extension contact, 77.34% had medium level of socio-economics status, majority of the respondents (65.62%) had purchased television sets in between 3 to 4 years, (92.18%) viewed channel star plus, the credibility index was 81.80%, 92.96% of the rural women preferred entertainment programmes. As concerned to the media credibility, extent of usefulness and discuss of programmes only age was positively and significantly related. At the same time there was no other independent variable like education, family size, annual income, land holding, social participation, mass media use, extension contact and socio economic status had non-significant relationship. It was revealed that, 100% of the respondents expressed the problem was electricity problem and 88.28% respondent expressed more commercial breaks. Majority of the respondents said that lack of time (60.15%), information is not timely (59.37%), use of difficult terms (44.53%), inconvenient time (28.90%), too much information in less time (27.34%).
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spelling doaj-art-2e4dc699a81c4daeb394171400ba15212025-08-20T02:39:09ZengPuspa Publishing HouseInternational Journal of Economic Plants2349-47352015-05-012May, 2Televiewing Behaviour of Rural Women towards Agricultural Programme: A Case Study in Latur, Maharashtra, IndiaP. G. Waghmare0D. D. Suradkar1K. Venkatesha2Dept. of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Latur, VNMKV, Parbhani, Maharashtra (431 402), IndiaDept. of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Latur, VNMKV, Parbhani, Maharashtra (431 402), IndiaDept. of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Latur, VNMKV, Parbhani, Maharashtra (431 402), India The aim of the study is to find out the extent of usage of agricultural programme on television by rural women, study the viewing behaviour and time spent for agricultural programme and identify the preferences of rural women with reference to agricultural programmes on television. The findings of the study is majority 60.94 of the respondents belonged to middle age group, 32.03% educated up to secondary school level, 81.26% rural women had medium family size, 81.25% of rural women had medium annual income, higher percentage 64.84% of respondents were found in medium land holding category, (82.03%) of the rural women had medium social participation, 70.31% of the respondents had medium level of mass media use, 64.84% of rural women had medium level of extension contact, 77.34% had medium level of socio-economics status, majority of the respondents (65.62%) had purchased television sets in between 3 to 4 years, (92.18%) viewed channel star plus, the credibility index was 81.80%, 92.96% of the rural women preferred entertainment programmes. As concerned to the media credibility, extent of usefulness and discuss of programmes only age was positively and significantly related. At the same time there was no other independent variable like education, family size, annual income, land holding, social participation, mass media use, extension contact and socio economic status had non-significant relationship. It was revealed that, 100% of the respondents expressed the problem was electricity problem and 88.28% respondent expressed more commercial breaks. Majority of the respondents said that lack of time (60.15%), information is not timely (59.37%), use of difficult terms (44.53%), inconvenient time (28.90%), too much information in less time (27.34%). https://ojs.pphouse.org/index.php/IJEP/article/view/4406Credibility index, inconvenient time, women entrepreneur
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D. D. Suradkar
K. Venkatesha
Televiewing Behaviour of Rural Women towards Agricultural Programme: A Case Study in Latur, Maharashtra, India
International Journal of Economic Plants
Credibility index, inconvenient time, women entrepreneur
title Televiewing Behaviour of Rural Women towards Agricultural Programme: A Case Study in Latur, Maharashtra, India
title_full Televiewing Behaviour of Rural Women towards Agricultural Programme: A Case Study in Latur, Maharashtra, India
title_fullStr Televiewing Behaviour of Rural Women towards Agricultural Programme: A Case Study in Latur, Maharashtra, India
title_full_unstemmed Televiewing Behaviour of Rural Women towards Agricultural Programme: A Case Study in Latur, Maharashtra, India
title_short Televiewing Behaviour of Rural Women towards Agricultural Programme: A Case Study in Latur, Maharashtra, India
title_sort televiewing behaviour of rural women towards agricultural programme a case study in latur maharashtra india
topic Credibility index, inconvenient time, women entrepreneur
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