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ERIC ED390624: Educational Radio: A Tool for Rural Change.

This paper examines how educational radio has been used to disseminate agricultural information to farmers in rural communities of Manitoba (Canada), and discusses implications for educational uses of radio in developing countries. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 communication experts involved in rural extension services in Manitoba. The experts felt that they did not use radio to educate but to make farmers aware of timely and useful technical information and to inform farmers of practices that would improve farming and their quality of life. Experts planned radio programs cooperat…