Development of a mobile application to control Brucellosis and its effect in Knowledge gain among the commercial dairy farmers of Northern India

The study was carried out to assess the effectiveness of an educational module on brucellosis among commercial dairy farmers. Experimental research design before and after was used to test the effectiveness of the Educational module. A total of 120 commercial dairy farmers were selected and interviewed using a well-structured interview schedule from six districts of Haryana and Punjab States during 2018. The results revealed that the majority of the respondents (55%) had not heard about brucellosis and didn’t know causative agent of brucellosis (55%). The majority of the respondents mentioned that they did not know the symptoms of brucellosis, mode of transmission, method of prevention and vaccine used for brucellosis in dairy animals. Before exposure to the educational module, the percentage of knowledge was 12.03 per cent and after exposure 46.54 per cent. Mean knowledge gain was 34.51 per cent. Knowledge gain through educational module on brucellosis in dairy animals was positively and significantly correlated with education, landholding, income, herd size and experience in commercial dairy farming.

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PENGARUH BAHASA BOOKLET PADA PENINGKATAN PENGETAHUAN PETERNAK SAPI PERAH TENTANG INSEMINASI BUATAN DI KELURAHAN NONGKOSAWIT, KECAMATAN GUNUNGPATI, KOTA SEMARANG

Jurnal Penyuluhan ◽

10.25015/penyuluhan.v2i2.2184 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Sriroso Satmoko ◽

Harini Tri Astuti

Keyword(s):

Analysis Of Variance ◽

Artificial Insemination ◽

Knowledge Gain ◽

Dairy Farmers ◽

Knowledge Gains ◽

Bahasa Indonesia

A research concerning the effect of booklet’s language on the dairy farmers knowledge gain regarding artificial insemination had been accomplished in Nongkosawit Village, Gunung Pati District, City of Semarang on April 3 to June 3, 2004. The objective of the research was to determine whether such an extension booklet language created an effect on the dairy farmers’ knowledge regarding artificial insemination. Fourty dairy farmers were selected purposively for this research. They were divided into two groups, with 20 members each. The first group was exposed to the first version of the booklet written Javanese, and the second group was exposed to the second version of the booklet written in bahasa Indonesia. One-way analysis of variance was used to analyze the data collected. The results pointed out that the effect of the booklets’ languages on the dairy farmers’ knowledge gains about artificial insemination was not significant at alpha equal to 0.05.

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Survey Analysis on the usage and Impact of Whatsapp Messenger

Global Journal of Enterprise Information System ◽

10.18311/gjeis/2016/15741 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 52 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Naveen Kumar ◽

Sudhansh Sharma

Keyword(s):

Social Services ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Mobile Application ◽

Instant Messaging ◽

Age Groups ◽

Survey Analysis ◽

Northern India ◽

Or Groups ◽

Survey Results ◽

And Gender

WhatsApp is a popular mobile application for providing instant messaging service in smartphones. It uses Internet services to communicate different type of text and multimedia messages between users or groups. Its users worldwide have crossed the figure of one billion in February 2016. The effect of WhatsApp on our lives, culture, and society keeps on increasing. It is also becoming popular tool for marketing in businesses and publicity in politics. This growth has also drawn the attention of researchers to understand the implications and effect of WhatsApp on its user’s social and personal life. We investigated the usage and effect of WhatsApp in the regions of Northern India. We performed an internet based survey using open-source Lime survey software and obtained responses. Total 460 responses had been received in which only 136 responses were considered for analysis those have completed all questions and having more than 18 years of age. The users in India made a slow shift from all social networking sites to WhatsApp in a quick span of time. This survey results show that there is a significant impact of WhatsApp on its users. Around 66% of WhatsApp users believe that WhatsApp has improved their relationship with friends. More than 63% of its users think it is not harmful for them. There are several other analyses presented in this paper based on age-groups and gender of WhatsApp users. This survey analysis may be useful for academicians and researchers for understanding the behavior of WhatsApp users and reflect the possibility of using WhatsApp in education, social services and governance.

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