Advancement of Information Communication Technologies has become a crucial factor in improving decision making capacity of agricultural scientists, facilitating retrieval and sharing of agricultural information. This article aims at designing and validating a psychometric scale on basis of Likert’s method of summated ratings to assess the attitude of agricultural scientist towards information communication technologies. Attitude is a developed feeling or emotion towards a psychological object which helps an individual to give a verdict on that psychological object. Commencing with initial set of 70 statements prepared/developed on the basis of insights from literature review of previous empirical research on attitude scales towards ICT, final scale constituted of 17 statements. The items were subjected to relevancy test and items having ‘t’ value higher than 1.75 were selected in final scale. On the basis of and ‘t’ value 17 statements constituted the final scale. The aggregate scale was verified for internal consistency and content validity. Cronbach’s alpha value of 0.75 and whole test reliability value of 0.55 computed using the Spearman-Brown Prophecy formula established satisfactory level of internal consistency as reliability of the scale. Content validation of scale was ensured by administering the selected items to judges. The standardized scale allows quantitative assessment of agricultural scientist and would have practical applicability in discovering the intensity of attitude of agricultural scientist and thus facilitates to take right decisions by policy makers.

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The study entitled status and prospects of medicinal and aromatic plants in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab was under taken with the objectives to identify the problems faced by the medicinal and aromatic plants growers in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. Four blocks of Hoshiarpur district namely Bhunga, Dasuya, Hajipur and Talwara were selected, 20 farmers were selected from the each block thus the total sample comprised of 80 farmers  for the present study were selected. The data were collected by personal interview approach method, tabulated and analyzed using appropriate statistical tools. The findings of the study revealed that 87.50 per cent farmers were growing wheat as their main crop, 17.50 per cent farmers facing problems related to Unfavourable government policies and 75 per cent farmers suggested that rates should be more.

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