A Study on Constraints in Communication behaviour of Tribal Farmers

Abstract

The study on constraints in communication behaviour of tribal farmers, was conducted to study about communication behaviour of tribal farmers in Kolli hills in Namakkal district of Tamilnadu. A sample of three hundred tribal farmers (respondents) was selected from the tribal hamlets using proportionate random sampling technique.  Sixteen variables were selected. The data were collected with the help of well structured and pretested interview schedule and suitable statistical tools were used to analyse the data. It could be observed from the study that majority of tribal had the constraints in lack of training, lack of infrastructure, lesser number of agricultural campaigns, lack of self confidence, lack of family support, lack of interest in learning farm know-how. And the following constraints such as lack of skill in acquiring agricultural information, lack of skill in processing and evaluating agricultural information, lesser number of visits by agricultural officers and lack of location specific agricultural technologies in television, radio and newspaper are found to be faced by lesser number of tribal.