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Winter 12-1-2012

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Article

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  1. Dr. Arvind Kumar Sharma. Information Needs and Sharing Pattern among Rural Women: A Study. IASLIC Bulletin, 2007 52(3), 156-167
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  3. Saima Sadaf, Asif Javed & Muhammad Luqman, Preferences of Rural Women for Agricultural Information Sources: A Case Study of District Faisalabad–Pakistan, Journal of Agriculture & Social Sciences Available at http://www.fspublishers.org
  4. Mittal Surabhi & Tripathi Gaurav Role of Mobile Phone Technology in Improving Small Farm Productivity, Journal of Agriculture & Social Sciences, 2009, 22 ( Conference Number), 451-459
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Abstract

Nowadays, information is a basic necessity of everyday life. For anything and everything information is required. Information can be obtained or retrieved from a variety of sources. Farmers constitute a particular group of users whose information needs is very specific. The present paper deals with the information needs of the farmer community in rural areas. The study conducted through survey method and reveals that 71 (40.58%) farmers requires daily information for various agriculture work. It is also found that the first preferred sources of the information of the farmers is colleague or fellow farmers following by newspapers and Government office.

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