Information Technology: the importance of empowering women farmers
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Date
2016
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Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Patrika
Abstract
Our major sources of information in the past decades were print media, radio
and TV, but as a result of the telecommunications revolution, the information and
technology has reached to the households at village level. Information and technology
has evolved through the years' hard work, which has important effect on modern
societies. Technical progress at the global level has exalted human life to act at its
highest level of flexibility and speed. Male and female farmers are generally curious to
know their crop management and livestock management, but the lack of extension
workers & due to their negligence of duty, the information does not reach farmers' at
right time and untimely rain and climate change result in the event of yield loss or
crop losses. The Government of India in 2009, started farmer portal to spread agricultural information and technology to ensure access. In the same sequence, through
the Krishi Vigyan Kendras, the 'early message service' for farmers' in Hindi by the
mobile on Agriculture, Home Science and other important information was made available
for farmers, women farmers over time began immediately. In survey, 5% male
farmers' and 15% female farmers participants reported to have no benefit from this
scheme. It was noted that the 25-40 year old male farmers (95%) and women farmers
(85%) were found to agree to get benefit from the scheme. The sequence of the various
villages in the districts of Gwalior and Datia, 25 male farmers and 25 women farmers'
in the survey found that 90% of the participants (male farmers) and 83% (women
farmers) participants agreed with the quality of the message. 85% (male farmers) and
70% (women farmers) of the participants agreed with the statement that the information
in their daily lives through mobile provides ease of doing things in their daily life.
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Library and Information science
Citation
Gupta, Sourav and others (2016). Information Technology: the importance of empowering women farmers. Bhartiya Krishi Anushandhan Patrika, Vol. 31(4): 318-320