Assessment of Role of Local FM Radio in disseminating Agriculture Technology on Sindhuli, Nepal

B. Gautam¹ , S. Adhikari² , P. Neupane³

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.6 , Issue.5 , pp.76-80, May-2020

Online published on May 31, 2020

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Abstract :
A study entitled Assessment of Role of Local FM Radio in disseminating Agriculture Technology on Sindhuli Nepal was conducted from January to March 2020. 60 farmers were selected randomly and interviewed using the pre-structured questionnaire. Secondary data was collected from different sources. The data collected was analysed. Results revealed that majority of the respondents were male (63.33%), belonged to the age group of 25-49 years (58.33%), 45% have with Intermediate level of Education, 56.67% with more than ten years of farming experience, average family size 4.35 and average landholding 3.54 ropani. It was observed that 41.67% of the respondents listen to agriculture programs every day. The common means for listening to the radio was a mobile phone (89%) with radio feature and 11% have radio sets on their house. 28.33% of the respondent`s Drama Nature of the program followed by (18.33%) Agriculture News. Regarding the subject broadcasted, topics related to Disease and pest management were preferred by 38.33% of the farmers. Only 6.67% of the respondents reported that the information broadcasted is highly relevant while 10% of the respondents suggested the revision of the contents. About half of the respondents were found to be satisfied with the content broadcasted while only 5% was found highly satisfied. 100% of the respondents preferred Evening 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM for a listening agriculture program. 25% of the respondents reported poor signal is the major problem to access the information through the radio followed by a language barrier (16.67%).

Key-Words / Index Term :
Radio, Agriculture

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