What is it about?
It is about whether the programs designed and broadcast by Bangladesh Betar, the national radio of Bangladesh to educate the farmers of Bangladesh are effective or not.
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Why is it important?
Radio is a very old medium for transmitting information and so on. Bangladesh Betar is the oldest electronic media of Bangladesh. There are so many alternative media like television, departmental specialized experts for the diffusion of farm technologies. Except radio all the mechanisms are very expensive. But for a poor country like Bangladesh radio is very cost effective at all respects. But the fact is that the listeners are decreasing to a great extent that raise the question of the effectiveness and rationality of the farm programs on Bangladesh Betar because there is an investment of a huge amount of national budget. If the programs are ineffective, the investment is irrational.
Perspectives
I had a long involvement with Bangladesh Betar and the farm programs on it. I am also with a very close contact with the farmers in rural area. There farm practices raised question to me whether the farm programs reach them or not. This question inspired me to conduct this study.
Mahedi Hasan
Jashore University of Science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: The effectiveness of farm programmes on Bangladesh Betar in educating farmers, Open Learning The Journal of Open Distance and e-Learning, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02680513.2017.1345679.
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