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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: Verma, Digvijay × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2022 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    A STUDY ON ACCESS AND USAGE OF ICT TOOLS BY THE FARMERS OF BANDA DISTRICT, UP
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001,Uttar Pradesh, India, 2022-09-15) Verma, Digvijay; Ojha, Pankaj Kumar
    An Survey research design was used in this study. The study was conducted in the Banda district, which was selected purposively. The main reason was that the Banda district comes under our university's jurisdiction, i.e., Banda University of Agriculture & Technology. Banda district consists of eight blocks, namely Baberu, Badokhar Khurd, Bisanda, Jaspura, Kamasin, Mahua, Naraini, and Tindwari, along which two blocks, Badhokhar Khurd and Tindwariare selected randomly. From each block, three villages were selected following a random sampling procedure. Acchrodh, Kanwara, and Gureh from Badhokhar Khurd; Paperenda, Peperhari, and Chilla from Tindwari Block were selected for the study. Thus, six (6) villages were selected for the study. From each village, 20 farmers were selected randomly for the present study. Hence, the total number of selected respondents was 120 farmers. Data were collected through a well-structured interview schedule which was developed keeping in view the objectives of the study. The detailed analysis of socio-economic profile indicated that the majority of the farmers were medium aged (60.84%), educated up to Intermediate level (70%), marginal and small level of land holding (65.83%), 11-33 years of experience in Farming (65.00%), 5-10 years of experience in usage of ICT tools (60.00%), medium level of possession of ICT tools (53.33%), low level (Up to 1.0 lakh) of annual income (78.33%), No training (82.50%), medium level of extension contact (80.83%), medium level of innovativeness (65.00%), medium level of economic orientation (71.67%), medium level of risk orientation (71.67%), and a medium level of scientific orientation (63.33%). The detailed analysis of the dependent variables indicated that a majority (61.67%) of respondents had a moderately favorable attitude with a medium level (63.33%) of utilization of ICT tools. The variables viz., education, land holding experience in farming, experience in usage of ICT tools, possession of ICT tools, annual Income, extension contact, innovativeness, economic orientation, risk orientation, and scientific orientation were associated with attitude and extent of utilization of ICT tools.The other variable, age, is not associated with attitude and extent of utilization of ICT tools. The problems faced by the farmers on utilization of ICT tools were, high cost of ICT gadgets like smart phones, computers etc., Poor economic condition of rural people, Poor connectivity of internet in villages, Lack of subsidies on ICT gadgets and inadequate internet facilities. The suggestions given by the farmers were reduce the costs of ICT tools, Provide subsidies on ICT gadgets, Provide infrastructure facilities, Providing of internet facilities, Provide educational facilities near village and Create awareness campaigns on benefits of ICT tools.