• Dr. T. KALIDASAN

Information related to agriculture has reached the explosion stage and it keeps on proliferating at a faster rate and is changing at every point of time. Information form is complex in agriculture development process because the information has to pass through different systems viz. research, extension and eventually to the clients. Though there are many factors responsible for the technological and production gaps, the farmers’ ignorance and lack of knowledge and skill of the modern agricultural technology and its possibility and potential have become crucial and are impeding the agricultural progress. This intern is due to weak information system and lack of effective linkages between the different systems. Among the 102 sugarcane cultivating countries in the world, India occupies first position with respect to area and production of sugar. Sugarcane occupies an important place in the Indian agricultural economy. The past experience of the extension system revealed that the communication of agricultural information was inefficient and ineffective, leading to an increased gap between innovation in the lab and the adoption in the fields by the farmers. Therefore, the information management behaviour of personnel in these three systems gains significance. This calls for the study of information management behaviour of researchers engaged in development of sugarcane technologies. Hence, it was felt very much necessary to study the constraints faced by sugarcane scientists in the information management behaviour.

Information management, sugarcane technologies, agricultural information, communication, etc

"CONSTRAINTS ENCOUNTERED BY RESEARCHERS IN THE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BEHAVIOUR OF SUGARCANE TECHNOLOGIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.168-171, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRX006033.pdf

"CONSTRAINTS ENCOUNTERED BY RESEARCHERS IN THE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BEHAVIOUR OF SUGARCANE TECHNOLOGIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp168-171, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRX006033.pdf