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Item Objective evaluation of the agricultural exhibition conducted at the campus Kerala Agricultural University Vellayani(Kerala Agricultural University, 1981) Bhaskaran, C; Menon, A G GAn attempt was made to evaluate the three day Agricultural Exhibition conducted at the Vellayani Campus of the Kerala Agricultural University during July, 1 979. Forty participant farmers were randomly selected and were personally iniervjewed to assess their perception about the treatment and utility of \ the selected exhibits. The treatment utility index of the exhibition was quite high being 64.80 percent. The Rank order correlation coefficient also indicated greater degree of concordance in the treatment and utility of the individual exhibits. In general, the exhibits relating to innovations which had high practical applicability and of immediate interest to the farmers were assigned higher ranks in the treatment-utility ladder.Item Differential characteristics of youth club members and non-members in Kerala(Kerala Agricultural University, 1982) Joy Mathew; Menon, A G G; Bhaskaran, CThe research study conducted in NFS Block, Pattambi in Palghat district of Kerala among youth club members and non-members revealed that they differed significantly with reference to many of the selected variables. The youth club members had significantly higher mean scores than the non- members with respect to education, social participation, family economic status, cosmopoliteness, attitude towards agriculture and rote perception and role performance in agricultural development. However, there was no significant difference between the youth club members and non-members with respect to their occupational status, parental [occupation and level of aspiration. These findings provide a typology or profile feature of the rural youth in Kerala, which has to be considered while launching special programmes of rural areas in Kerala, in general, for the development and rural youth in Kerala, in particular.Item Impact of development programmes among the tribals of Kerala(Kerala Agricultural University, 1982) Kumari Sushama, N P; Menon, A G G; Bhaskaran, CAn investigation to study the impact of development programmes among the tribals of Kerala was carried out in the South Wynad and North Wynad taluks of Wynad district. Two hundred tribal families selected from the four major tribes of the district viz., Kurumans, Kurichians, Paniyans and Adiyans constituted the sample of the study. The analysis of data revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean adoption scores, me3n knowledge scores and mean attitude scores of the tribes living in more developed and less developed areas. It is also found that among the individual tribes, Adiyans had high adoption, high level of knowledge and more favourable attitude towards modern practices whereas Paniyans had low adoption, low level of knowledge and less favourable attitude towards modern practices.Item Factors affecting the functioning of rural youth clubs in Kerala(Kerala Agricultural University, 1982) Joy Mathew; Menon, A G G; Bhaskaran, CThe research study was conducted among seventy five youth club members in NES Block, Pattambi, Palghat district in Kerala to identify the factors which determine the successful functioning of rural youth clubs. The study revealed that there was more or less perfect agreement among the different categories of youth club members, viz., more favourable and less favourable attitude groups, more correct and less correct role perception groups and higher and lower role performance groups in ranking the identified factors based on their relative importance for the successful functioning of youth clubs. Members' interest was perceived as the most important factor affecting the successful functioning of youth clubs by all the categories of respondents followed by either financial position of the club or club functioning and personal relations between members as next in the order of importance. These findings may be kept in view while organising rural youth clubs as viable voluntary agencies to help in the upheaval of rural areas.Item Determinants of communication behaviour of contact farmers - a path analysis(Kerala Agricultural University, 1985) Abdul Kareem, K; Menon, A G G; Bhaskaran, CItem Role of rural youth in agricultural development(Kerala Agricultural University, 1988) Joy Mathew; Menon, A G G; Bhaskaran, CItem Communication behaviour of non-contact farmers in Kerala(Kerala Agricultural University, 1988) Sherief, A K; Menon, A G G; Bhaskaran, CThe research study conducted among selected noncontact farmers in Trivandrum, Quilon and Alleppey districts revealed that majority of the respondents received most of the technical information on rice cultivation from 'other farmers'. The study brought to light the increasing difficulty the noncontact farmers experienced in decoding and encoding the messages as their complexity increased. The noncontact farmers communicated technical information to 'other farmers' more frequently. Similarly, most of the feedback from the noncontact farmers was mainly communicated to 'other farmers, in their area.Item Communication patterns among contact farmers in Kerala(Kerala Agricultural University, 1984) Abdul Kareem, K; Menon, A G G; Bhaskaran, CThe research study conducted among selected contact farmers in Trivandrum district of Kerala revealed that majority of the respondents received most of the information, on coconut cultivation from Agricultural Demonstrators of the Department of Agriculture and 'local leaders' were the least consulted source of agro-information. The study brought to light the increasing difficulty the contact farmers experienced in decoding and encoding as the complexity of the message increased. The respondents communicated technical information to 'non-contact farmers of their own area' more frequently. Out of the three types of information feedback, communication of information related to technical aspects was the most important form of feedback.Item Technological gap in paddy cultivation(Kerala Agricultural University, 1983) Anantharaman, M; Bhaskaran, C; Ramanathan, SA study conducted among 60 paddy cultivators in Vellanad block of Ttivandrum district revealed that out of sixteen practices, high technological gap exists in practices such as liming, seed treatment, water management, pest and disease control and potassium application. Characteristics of the farmers such as education, extension agency contact, mass media exposure and extension participation were significantly and negatively related TO technological gap.Item Constraints in evolving, spreading and adopting improved rice varieties in Kerala(Kerala Agricultural University, 1992) Abdul Rahiman Kunju, O; Tampi, A M; Bhaskaran, COut of the nine constraints identified in evolving and spreading improved rice varieties, lack of facilities for evolving specific varieties suited to certain rice pockets of Kerala ranked first as percieved by the research subsystem. Non-filling up of post of scientists, lack of facilities to multiply seeds of improved varieties and for onfarm teaching of farmers were other important constraints in the descending order. Susceptibility to pests and diseases, requirement of heavy dose of fertilizers, poor cooking quality and low straw yield were the most important constraints in spreading and adopting improved rice varieties as perceived by extension, client and input subsystems.