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Felix von der Bank; Matthias Pilz; Rengan Venkatram – International Review of Education, 2024
The agricultural sector in India has come to prominence as a source of employment and livelihood. It is one of the most significant informal sectors in the country, and one in which informal learning plays a major role. This article analyses the informal learning of farmers in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. In the course of this research,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Occupations, Lifelong Learning, Family Environment
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Singh, Amandeep; Tiwari, Rupasi; Panda, Pratikshya; Kour, Gurpreet; Dutt, Triveni – Cogent Education, 2022
The current study was conducted to analyse the sources of information utilized by dairy farmers of rural Punjab for obtaining information on organic waste management. A total of 80 farmers (40 each, small and large) were selected for the study. Results revealed that small farmers had a low level of information source utilization whereas, large…
Descriptors: Indians, Agricultural Occupations, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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Mittal, Surabhi; Padmaja, Subash Surendran; Ajay, Anurag – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2018
Purpose: The key informants in a village setup were studied to understand the existing social and knowledge systems of farmers, their structure, and relationships between different actors. The purpose is to identify different channels of information and use them as a means to disseminate agricultural technologies and related information to…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Agricultural Occupations, Knowledge Level, Foreign Countries
Karibeeran, Sathyamurthi; Ramaswamy, Lakshmi Devi – Online Submission, 2020
Youth is a period of transition from the dependence of childhood to adulthood's independence and awareness of our interdependence as members of a community. National Youth Policy (2014) pointed out youth as the age group of 15-29 years, which constitutes 27.5 percents of population. Young people are healthy, more than that 1.8 million young people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, COVID-19, Pandemics
Zayabalaradjane, Z.; Chacko, Thomas V. – Online Submission, 2020
This report presents the compilation of interaction analysis of a month long online discussion that supplemented regular FAIMER fellowship programme for health professional teachers. Online discussion forums are considered as an effective means and if conducted using appropriate protocols and activities will help learners to share and gain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication, Faculty Development
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Shukla, Shailesh; Barkman, Janna; Patel, Kirit – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
Like many socially and economically disadvantaged farming communities around the world, the Anchetty region of Tamil Nadu, India, has been experiencing serious food security challenges mainly due to the loss of traditional foods such as small millets and associated crops (SMAC) and associated indigenous agricultural knowledge (IAK). Drawing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Food, Hunger
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Vidya, P.; Manivannan, C. – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2010
A study was carried out to design, develop and test an educational interactive video-DVD on dairy health management practices. Design for the provision of menus and sub-menus in the developed video-DVD facilitated interactivity by means of branching navigation to different chapters in the video content. A total of 60 dairy farmers owning DVD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interactive Video, Agricultural Occupations, Television