IMPACT: International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature (IMPACT: IJRHAL) ISSN (P): 2347-4564; ISSN (E): 2321-8878 Vol. 5, Issue 12, Dec 2017, 181-186 © Impact Journals IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURAL COMMUNICATION AMONG MAHADALIT COMMUNITY OF BIHAR RAMESH CHANDRA PATHAK Associate Professor, Amity School of Communication, Amity University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India ABSTRACT The term Mahadalit community is used for marginalized sections of Bihar. Mahadalit communities are terribly weaker castes amongst the Scheduled Castes. In 2007 State Mahadalit community Commission categorized 21 castes as Mahadalit. They are socially, economically and politically backward and extremely deprived of the basic facilities including government welfare schemes. The voices for social, economic and political upliftment of Mahadalit community are increasing day by day. Agricultural communication is necessary for a better understanding towards inclusive economic growth and awareness. This research paper will also encourage use of agricultural communication for the reform of their social status and overall development. The agricultural communication is the demand of time and place. This idea will also connect them with our democratic system and because of this they will be able to easily implement different scientific policies of government in their day to day agricultural and rural needs. KEYWORDS: Mahadalit Community, Agriculture, Communication, Agricultural Science Communication, Caste INTRODUCTION Mahadalit community is socially, financially and politically in reverse and to a great degree denied of the essential offices including government welfare plans. The voices for social, financial and political upliftment of Mahadalit community are expanding step by step. This will expand better comprehension towards agricultural communication and utilization of farming communication for comprehensive financial development and mindfulness. This task will likewise empower utilization of agricultural communication for the reform of their economic wellbeing and general advancement. The agricultural communication is the request of time and place. This thought will likewise interface them with the fourth domain of our vote based system i.e. press and due to this mindfulness, they will effectively execute distinctive logical arrangements of government in their everyday agrarian and rustic needs. Indian Constitution has laid awesome weight on Scheduled caste & Scheduled tribe groups to get them the standard of society. In perspective of these mandates of the constitution, Govt. has propelled a few plans for financial and social improvement of Scheduled caste. It has been discovered that specific areas of Scheduled caste have possessed the capacity to take significant advantages from these plans and create them. Be that as it may, it has additionally been seen that miscommunication area of planned rank has remained socially and financially in reverse. State Govt. after due idea conceptualized an activity to make extraordinary activities and reserve unique assets for the general improvement of these generally denied areas among Scheduled caste. State Mahadalit Commission has submitted several reports and prescribed a few measures for advancement and to incorporate for the amazingly weaker sections among the rundown of Scheduled caste and great degree weaker positions among Scheduled caste. Impact Factor(JCC): 3.6586 - This article can be downloaded from www.impactjournals.us 182 Ramesh Chandra Pathak Research Problem • Mahadalit communities are socially, financially and politically in reverse and to a great degree denied of the essential offices including government welfare plans. The voices for social, financial and political upliftment of Mahadalit communities are expanding step by step. • This will expand better comprehension towards agricultural communication and utilization of farming communication for comprehensive financial development and mindfulness. This task will likewise empower utilization of agricultural communication for the reform of their economic wellbeing and general advancement. • The agricultural communication is the request of time and place. This thought will likewise interface them with the fourth domain of our vote based system i.e. communication and due to this mindfulness, they will effectively execute distinctive logical arrangements of government in their everyday agrarian and rustic needs. • Measures for advancement and to incorporate for the amazingly weaker sections among the rundown of Scheduled caste. This research paper will address all these research problems. Objectives • To find out the importance of agricultural communication among Mahadalit communities of Bihar. • To find out better understanding towards agricultural communication and use of agricultural communication for inclusive economic growth and awareness. • To find out the use of agricultural communication for the upliftment of their social status and overall development. • To find out importance of agricultural communication while implementing different scientific policies of government in day to day agricultural and rural needs. Hypothesis There are possibilities of use of agricultural communication for inclusive economic growth and awareness. Mahadalit community is socially, economically and politically backward and extremely deprived of the basic facilities including government welfare schemes. The voices for social, financial and political upliftment of Mahadalit community are expanding step by step. The Mahadalit community voice and issues in the press are yet getting underestimated scope. This will extend better appreciation towards agricultural communication and use of cultivating communication for thorough monetary improvement and care. This errand will in like manner enable usage of agricultural communication for the change of their monetary prosperity and general progression. Review of Literature A significant part of the time correspondence or maybe, media doesn't give enough degree space to their battles. Different authorities have bestowed their anguish on the lacking trustworthiness of communication like awful and less augmentation on the Untouchables. Agricultural communication spotlights on communication about cultivating related information among country accomplices and among provincial and non-rustic accomplices. Agribusiness is widely portrayed in this instruct to fuse developing, and in addition support, fiber, animals, rural issues, and normal resources. RJ NAAS Rating: 3.10- Articles can be sent to [email protected] Importance of Agricultural Communication among Mahadalit Community of Bihar 183 Monson in Agricultural communication network-US Patent 5,689,418, 1997 - Google Patents mentions that “an agricultural communications network including a master system which polls lower level systems for digital maps, each map comprising field character information indicative of a feature at each location of a farmer's field.”1Country correspondence is done formally and coolly by cultivating expansion and is related to science correspondence. Regardless, it has progressed into its own master field. Rural correspondence watches out for each branch of learning related to the erratic endeavors of sustenance, maintain, fiber, practical power source, standard resource organization, common change and others, locally to all around. IV Malhan, S Rao - World library and information congress …, 2007 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org in his article Impact of globalization and emerging information communication technologies on agricultural knowledge transfer to small farmers in India narrates that “Government of India is strengthening and promoting agricultural informatics and communications …way for doing something better, adopting and adapting agricultural technologies.”2Additionally, it crosses all individuals, from analysts to clients - and all periods of those endeavors, from horticultural research and creation to dealing with, exhibiting, use, sustenance and prosperity. A creating business area for country feature writers and supporters incited the establishment of cultivating news scope and agricultural correspondence educational controls. Scholars like B Minten, KM Singh, R Sutradhar - Food policy, 2013 – Elsevier in their research paper Branding and agricultural value chains in developing countries: Insights from Bihar (India) quotes that “Local brands are rapidly gaining agricultural market share in developing countries. However, it isn't surely knowing how they reshape farming quality chains. In a point by point contextual analysis of the esteem chain of makhana in Bihar, we see the quick development – a multiplying more than 5 years – of costlier stuffed and marked items.”3 Theoretically, agrarian correspondence is an associated speculative field. The educational instructive projects and scholastic endeavors usually stay inside the setting of cultivating, general resources, and from time to time, the life sciences. It takes a gander at correspondence and human estimation issues as they relate to a combination of issues in cultivation and trademark resources Kumar, R Somanathan - 2016 - theigc.org in his paper The right to shelter quotes that “Mahadalit community. Thus, at this time all Scheduled Castes (SC) except the Dusadhs (in other words, about 69% of the state's SC population) are designated as Mahadalit communities …just under70% of all scheduled caste main workers in Bihar are agricultural labourers.”4 In Bihar, where 90 for each penny of the masses lives in the towns what's more for each penny of its workforce is used in agribusiness and related divisions, arrive changes are basic to any change program.H Kumar, R Somanathan, S Chakravarthy, T Baul… - 2017 - isid.ac.in in their research paper Caste connections and government transfers: The Mahadalit community of Bihar states that “The category of Scheduled Castes, created for the purpose of affirmative action in India, is large, heterogeneous and unequal. In 2007, the province of Bihar ordered the most distraught among this gathering as 'Mahadalit people group,' to better target government exchanges to them.”5 Methodology This examination depends on systematic examination to secondary sources to inspect the significance of agriculture communication among Mahadalitcommunity of Bihar. Optional information was accumulated from significant books, scholarly articles, web, and in addition provincial information records. Impact Factor(JCC): 3.6586 - This article can be downloaded from www.impactjournals.us 184 Ramesh Chandra Pathak ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION Mahadalit community is terribly weaker castes amongst the Scheduled Castes. In 2007 State Mahadalit community Commission categorized 21 castes as Mahaddalit. They are socially, economically and politically backward and extremely deprived of the basic facilities including government welfare schemes. The voices for social, economic and political upliftment of Mahadalit communities are increasing day by day. The agricultural science communication is the demand of time and place. This idea will also connect them with the fourth estate of our democracy i.e. communication and because of this awareness they will easily implement different scientific policies of government in their day to day agricultural and rural needs. For socially, economically and politically backward and extremely deprived Mahadalit community as establishment of Agricultural Communication among Mahadalit community of Bihar. Notwithstanding, the state government consented to give just 3 decimals of property land to each landless Mahadalit community family. As on Walk 2014, arrive has been conveyed to 2.22 lakh families, as against an objective of 2.47 lakh families, including 6641 sections of land of land10. In 2014-15, the state government proposed to build the point of confinement to 5 decimals11. The Land Changes Indeed, even after getting estate arrive, the Mahadalit community have kept on filling in as ranch workers in upper station possessed farmlands. In such manner, it is advantageous to take note of that they arrive tenure conditions have dependably been horrible to every one of the occupants particularly Mahadalit community agriculturists; on the off chance that anything, they are exploitative. Agricultural communication spotlights on correspondence about farming related data among rural partners and amongst rural and non-rural partners. Agribusiness is extensively characterized in this teach to incorporate cultivating, as well as nourishment, fiber (e.g., cotton), creatures, rustic issues, and common assets. Rural correspondence is done formally and casually by farming augmentation and is viewed as identified with science correspondence. In any case, it has advanced into its own expert field. Agricultural communication tends to every single branch of knowledge identified with the unpredictable undertakings of sustenance, sustain, fiber, sustainable power source, regular asset administration, provincial improvement and others, locally to all around. Besides, it traverses all members, from researchers to customers - and all phases of those undertakings, from agricultural research and creation to handling, showcasing, utilization, sustenance and wellbeing. A developing business sector for rural columnists and supporters prompted the foundation of farming news coverage and horticultural correspondence scholastic controls. Hypothetically, agrarian correspondence is a connected hypothetical field. The scholastic educational programs and academic undertakings commonly remain inside the setting of farming, regular assets, and every so often, the life sciences. It looks at correspondence and human measurement issues as they identify with an assortment of issues in horticulture and characteristic assets. In Bihar, where 90 for every penny of the populace lives in the towns what's more for every penny of its workforce is utilized in agribusiness and related divisions, arrive changes are integral to any improvement programmed. The issue of landlessness among poor people is relentlessly expanding in the state disturbing destitution and hindering the improvement of agriculture. In addition, the centralization of negligible landholdings of Dalits in Bihar is high just like the quantity of families confronting complete landlessness. As indicated by a preparatory study led by the state Division of Income and Land Changes, in 2012, the same numbers of as 2.10 lakh Mahadalit community families were distinguished as families without property arrive. Agricultural news coverage isn't generally separated from rural correspondences in consider. One could contend that when inquire about spotlights on media scope of rural issues or when it analyzes issues inside rural news coverage particularly (i.e., what impacts editors of farming magazines to distribute chance data), at that point it is more inside the domain of rural news coverage. News coverage is regularly observed as a subset of NAAS Rating: 3.10- Articles can be sent to [email protected] Importance of Agricultural Communication among Mahadalit Community of Bihar 185 correspondence that should be reasonable and adjusted like customary news coverage, while the more extensive field of farming correspondence could conceivably be backing correspondence. Agrarian communicators are required to have a specific measure of learning and recognition with agribusiness. One could likewise add to that definition and say the communicator additionally carries with him or her gratefulness, or even fondness, for the farming business. While this is likewise presumably valid for rural writers, they at any rate should be aware of their potential predisposition to guarantee they make basic inquiries and present unprejudiced data. Rural columnists are prepared like customary writers, yet carry with them a comprehension of horticultural frameworks and science either through experience or potentially scholarly preparing. A recent report enlisted an expansion; the number went up from 2.10 to 2.47 lakh families. These numbers point to high pervasiveness of landlessness among Mahadalit community families specifically and the Dalits in general. The state government has made a couple of strides to address this. In 2005, the state set up a Land Changes Commission (LRC) under the chairmanship of D Bandyopadhyay to suggest arriving changes in Bihar. The Commission prescribed "task of no less than 10 decimals of land to landless families of 5.84 lakh non-cultivate provincial specialists every who are in the condition of semi blondeness as they live on the place that is known for other landowners". The report wasn't made open until, in2009, after a great deal of weight, assembly furthermore, promotion from various segments of the public. Mahadalit communities are socially, financially and politically in reverse and to a great degree denied of the essential offices including government welfare plans. The voices for social, financial and political upliftment of Mahadalit community are expanding step by step. This will expand better comprehension towards agricultural communication and utilization of farming communication for comprehensive financial development and mindfulness. This task will likewise empower utilization of agricultural communication for the reform of their economic wellbeing and general advancement. The agricultural communication is the request of time and place. This thought will likewise interface them with the fourth domain of our vote based system i.e. communication and due to this mindfulness, they will effectively execute distinctive logical arrangements of government in their everyday agrarian and rustic needs. CONCLUSIONS Thus, the importance of agricultural communication and its expansion among Mahadalit community is the request of time and place. Agriculture communication is vital for better comprehension towards comprehensive monetary development and mindfulness. This exploration results that the utilization of agriculture communications necessary for the upliftment of the social position and general improvement of Mahadalit community. The agrarian communication is the request of time and place. 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