ACCESSANDUSEOF ICT (INFORMATIONCOMMNUICATION TECHNOLOGY) TOOLSBYEXTENSIONPERSONNELFORTRANSFEROFTECHNOLOGYINALLAHABAD DIVISION OF UTTAR PRADESH
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2018
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION NAINI AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE, SAM HIGGINBOTTOM UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCES ALLAHABAD, U.P.
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Information Communication Technology comprises a set of technological tools and resources to create, dissemination, store and manage data and information. ICT can be broadly understood as the technologies that facilitate communication, processing and transmission of communication by electronic means ICTs rapidly gaining the central focal point for future word economic growth and development, while ICTs is ganging prominence as engine for economic growth. ICT tools like Radio, T.V., Video, film, slide, pictures, print media, internet, e-news paper, e-mail, and web based search engine, telephone, mobile; computer, etc. are being used to disseminate the information to the grass roots level users. At present the agriculture scientist and extension personnel in development of agriculture as the major responsibility to transforming technologies to farming community from time to time. The study was conducted in Allahabad region to determine the socio-personnel and psychological characteristics of the respondents to ascertain the accessibility to ICT tools by the respondents, to ascertain the utility pattern of ICT tools for transfer of technology, to find out the knowledge level of the respondents about ICT tools to analyze the factor influencing in the use of ICT tools and to trace the constraints faces by the respondents in use of the ICT tools for transfer of technology and seek their suggestions to overcome the constraints. Descriptive research deign was used for the present study. The study was covering 4 district i.e. Allahabad, Kushambhi, Fatepur, Pratapgarh which were selected purposively. The extension agencies in the Allahabad division such as Directorate of Extension of Agriculture University, 4 KVK and several State Agricultural Departments were selected for the present study. A total of 84 scientists/ AO and 196 FLEP were selected randomly for the present study, pre structure and pre tested interview schedule was used for collection data which were collected by the researcher himself through personnel interview method. Appropriate statistical tools were used to analysis the data for drawing a proper conclusion.
The result revealed that the socio-personnel characteristics of scientists/AO were medium to high level where as FLEP have had medium level. The accessibility of the ICT tools was higher in case of scientists/AO but it was medium accessibility in case of FLEP. Utility pattern of ICT tools for transfer of technology by the scientists/AO were high but in case of FLEP it was low to medium level. The knowledge about ICT tools were medium to high in case of scientists/AO were as it was low to medium in case of FLEP. The major constraints faced by respondents using ICT tools were inadequate technically competent, insufficient number of ICT tools in the organization, insufficient budget allocation for ICTs, lack of up gradation of ICT equipments and lack of latest ICT infrastructure personnel in using ICTs. Proper care and management of utilization ICT tools in necessary in order to maximum utilization of ICT tools in the rural area. Government should take proper steps and proper Extension strategies to be followed for maximum utilization of ICT tools.
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