Analyzing the contents of websites of Indian Agricultural Universities for their conformity with Middleton Standards

The agricultural universities and institutions in India play a very important role in ensuring food security and also earning significant amount of revenues through agricultural exports.These institutions are able to do so because they are anchoring a comprehensive programme of agricultural education, research and extension.In the endeavours of ascertaining food security a lots of information flows from one section of the society to another.Websites have become a very good source of information exchanges.Therefore, all agricultural universities and institutions have kept lots on information for its clients/stakeholders.A study has been conducted entitled "Analyzing the contents of websites of Indian Agricultural Universities for their conformity with Middleton Standards" for anlyzing status of websites of Indian agricultural Universities.Study suggests there are at least 13 Indian agricultural universities, which provides more than 75% contents on the websites as suggested by Middleton.Another finding of study is that the primary aim of the administrator of websites of Indian Agricultural institutions is to provide as much as possible information to the External Users.The Internal Users have been given least preference by the Indian Agricultural Institutions.Study also clearly indicates that most of Indian websites of Agricultural institutions prefer the English (74.5 %).