Awareness, Accessibility and Utilisation Pattern of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Projects by Fafmers of Belgaum District
dc.contributor.advisor | J.G. Angadi | |
dc.contributor.author | Vishwatej Rudroju | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-22T16:59:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-22T16:59:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study was conducted in the year 2012-13 to elicit the knowledge and utilisation pattern of ICT projects by the farmers of Belgaum district. Among the various ICT projects in operation, four projects were selected for the study namely, Kisan Call Centre (KCC), e- Choupal, Krishi Marata Vahini and Raith Mitra Kendra’s web portal. A sample of 140 respondents was selected randomly and was personally interviewed using pretested schedule. It was revealed that most of the respondents had high knowledge of KCC (40.00%), followed by medium knowledge of e-Choupal (39.29%) and Krishi Marata Vahini (37.14%) but low knowledge of Raith Mitra Kendra (30.71%). Most of farmers with high knowledge of all four ICT projects were young (53.33%) followed by middle age (22.03%) and old farmers (15.69%). It was also observed that 65.71 per cent of respondents were utilising information services of KCC, 61.43 per cent and 55.71 per cent of them were utilising services of Krishi Marata Vahini and e-Choupal, respectively. Only, 35.71 per cent of respondents were utilising Raith Mitra Kendra’s web portal for agriculture related information. Most of the farmers were utilising Krishi Marata Vahini (61.43%), e-Choupal (46.43%) for information regarding market prices, KCC (47.86%) and Raita Mitra Kendra (32.14%) for information regarding crop protection. Lack of adequate skills to use ICTs (73.57%) and lack of proper infrastructure (61.43%) were the major constraints in effective utilisation of ICT projects by farmers. Majority of the farmers had suggested for providing them training in operating ICT tools (74.29%), providing adequate knowledge of various ICTs projects (67.86%) and linking ICT projects with other services (61.43%). | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/87099 | |
dc.publisher | UAS, Dharwad | en_US |
dc.research.problem | Awareness, Accessibility and Utilisation Pattern of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Projects by Fafmers of Belgaum District | en_US |
dc.sub | Agricultural Extension | en_US |
dc.these.type | M.Sc | |
dc.title | Awareness, Accessibility and Utilisation Pattern of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Projects by Fafmers of Belgaum District | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |