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Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda

Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda has been established as a full-fledged State University, having unique honour of being the “First Agricultural University of Bundelkhand Region”. The University was notified vide Government Order No. 301/79-V-1-10-1 (Ka) 27-2009 Lucknow and established on 2nd March 2010 under Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University Act (Sanshodhan) 1958 Gazette-Adhiniyam 2010. Initially it was named as “Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda”, which was changed as “Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda” vide Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University Act (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2014, No. 1528(2)/LXXIX-V-1-14-1(Ka)-13-2014 dated 4th December 2014. The University has been established for the development of the agriculture and allied sectors in the Uttar Pradesh on the whole and Bundelkhand region in particular. It is committed to serve the Bundelkhand region with trinity concept, i.e. complete integration of teaching, research and extension for the development of agriculture and allied sectors in order to ensure food security and enhance socio-economic status of inhabitants. State Government of Uttar Pradesh has assigned the University with the responsibilities of (a) human resource generation and development, (b) generation and perfection of technologies, and (c) their dissemination to the farmers, orchardists and dairy farmers in the Chitrakoot Dham and Jhansi divisions. The Chirtrkoot Dham Division consists of four districts, namely Banda, Chitrakoot (Karvi), Mahoba and Hamirpur whereas Jhansi Division consists of Jhansi, Lalitpur and Jalaun (Orai) districts.

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Subject: Agricultural Extension × Author: Shivendra Mishra × Start date: 2022 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    “Utilization and Effectiveness of ICT tools as agricultural information delivery system in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh”
    (Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda 20001, 2023-08-09) Shivendra Mishra; Pankaj Kumar Ojha
    Descriptive research design was used to study the extent of effectiveness and utilization pattern of ICT tools by farmers of Banda District of Uttar Pradesh, which was selected purposefully due to its nearness and jurisdiction of my university i.e., Banda University of Agriculture & Technology. Banda district consists of eight blocks, namely Baberu, Badokhar Khurd, Bisanda, Jaspura, Kamasin, Mahua, Naraini, and Tindwari, among which two blocks namely-Badhokhar Khurd and Tindwari were selected randomly. From each block, three villages were selected following a random sampling procedure Mawai Buzurg, Barokhar, Mahokhar from Badhokhar Khurd and Mungus, Mahui and Lama from Tindwari Block were selected for the present study. From each village a total of 20 farmers were randomly selected for the purpose of obtaining their response using structured interview schedule developed specifically for this study. Thus, a total of 120 farmers were selected as respondent’s form a total of six (6) villages were selected for the study. The data collected during the study was entered, organized and analyzed using the appropriate statistical tools using the available software packages. The detailed analysis of socioeconomic profile indicated that the majority of the farmers were adult aged (62.50%), educated up to middle level (34.00%), marginal and small level of land holding (63.64%), 10-20 years of experience in Farming (60.64%), 5-10 years of experience in usage of ICT tools (60.83%), low level of training undergone (5.00%), medium level (1 lakh to 2 lakh) of family annual income (64.16%), medium level of mass media exposure (66.66%), medium level of extension contact (73.34%), medium level of innovativeness (60.00%), medium level of scientific orientation (64.16%) and medium level of economic motivation (74.17%). The detailed analysis of the dependent variables indicated that a majority (67.50%) of respondents had a medium level of utilization of ICT tools and almost half (49.16%) of the respondents found ICT tools effective in providing various information related to agriculture and allied sectors. The variables viz., education, land holding, experience in usage of ICT tools, family annual Income, extension contact, social participation, innovativeness, economic motivation, mass media exposure, and scientific orientation were associated with extent of utilization and effectiveness of ICT tools. The other variables- age, training and farming experience were not associated with extent of utilization and effectiveness of ICT tools. The problems faced by the farmers on utilization of ICT tools were high cost of ICT gadgets like smart phones, computers, lack of practical exposure regarding technology shared and less number of service. The suggestions given by the farmers were reduce the costs of ICT tools, Provide subsidies on ICT gadgets, Provide infrastructure facilities, Training should be provided in usage of ICT tools, Provide educational facilities near village and Create awareness campaigns on benefits of ICT tools.