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Efficacy of self-developed environmental information empowerment package (IEP) in transferring knowledge to farm families [1]

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The study was under taken with an objective to assess the impact of self-developed Environmental information empowerment package (EIEP) on environment protection through gain in knowledge of farm families. The present study was conducted in rural areas of Rajasthan. A sample of a mixed group of 30 willing farm men and women were identified data was collected by the self-developed questionnaire. The results of the study indicate that an apparent gain in knowledge can be observed after exposure to self-developed EIEP. Further, while the coefficient of variation during pre-test was as high as 20.57 percent with 1.81 SD and 0.33 SE it reduced to 7.13 percent (1.63 SD and 0.33 SE) in post-test. This indicates that there was a significant gain in knowledge in all the
contents of IEP.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2010
Poonam Sukhwal [2], Vandana Kaushik [3]
Journal of Human Ecology [4]
30
1
71
Tags:
Environment [5], Agriculture [6], Industrial Pollution [7], Farmers [8], Fertiliser Industry [9], Information [10], Right To Information (RTI) [11], Rajasthan [12], Udaipur (D) [13], Journal of Human Ecology [4], Poonam Sukhwal [2], Vandana Kaushik [3], Pollution [14]
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National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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