• Prof. Shashikant Sharma
• Tara Hetta

The role of information in farming practices is crucial to increasing the production. The accessibility of the farmers to the different information is very important Horticulture/ Agriculture accounts for 9.4% of the net state domestic product. It is the main source of income and employment in Himachal. About 90% of the population in Himachal depends directly upon agriculture/horticulture, which provides direct employment to 62% of total workers of state. Himachal Pradesh has emerged as “Horticultural State” of the country. Horticultural practices have a strong reliance on information exchange among farmers. The thrust of the study is to identify various horticultural information sources, their accessibility to the horticulturists and of nature and types of information required by the horticulturists. The study conducted through survey method with sample size of 200 respondent. Both primary and secondary data were used for this study. The secondary data was collected from sources like government records and previous research studies. Primary quantitative data was collected using the survey method and was analysed using descriptive statistics with IBM SPSS 26.0. The structured questionnaire was used as a data collection tool to fulfilling the objectives of the study. The stratified random sampling technique was used for the spot selection of farmers.

Information, access, media, horticulture, Himachal Pradesh.

"Accessibility of Horticulturists to the Different Sources Information in Himachal Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no.f1-f10, November-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211501.pdf

"Accessibility of Horticulturists to the Different Sources Information in Himachal Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no. ppf1-f10, November-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211501.pdf