A study was conducted to determine the impact profitability factors have on farm labor earnings for farms enrolled in the Minnesota Vocational Agriculture Farm Management Education Program. The most important predictors of labor earnings were size of business, gross return per cropped acre, and index return per $100 of feed fed. (LRA)

Reviews the Farmers' Functional Literacy Programme and various definitions of literacy, and describes a study in four villages of Deoria (India) to investigate the relationship between farmers' literacy status and their adoption of improved agricultural practices. Discusses the indicated trend toward agricultural improvement with rising literacy…

Describes a study to investigate attitudes of college-trained teacher-volunteers toward the Farmers' Functional Literacy Programme, part of the National Adult Education Programme in India. Item analysis of the attitude statements response indicated for the most part strongly favorable attitudes toward the program to educate farmers in improved…

Presents two scales constructed to measure farmers' attitudinal changes toward improved agricultural practices and toward adult literacy as a result of their participation in the Farmers' Functional Literacy Programme in India. (MF)