A Study on e-Readiness of Extension Service Providers of Various Agriculture Research and Development Institutes in Telangana.
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2022
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Department of Extension Education Institute of Agricultural Sciences Banaras Hindu University Varanasi
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ICT is a blend of the concepts of technology and communication. Technology is a tool or piece of software used to create or perform an action. Cyber extension is the extension of agricultural knowledge that occurs through digital technology in a virtual network of connected computers.Institutional e-Readiness is the degree to which an institution possesses infrastructure, network accessibility, policy support and affordability to acquire and effectively utilize ICTs. Also it should possess sufficient skilled manpower to efficiently and effectively utilize the available ICT infrastructure. To gain deep insight into the topic Ex-post facto research design was used. The study was conducted in the state of Telangana because it is one of the major states where a number of ICTs projects are being implemented. A total of 268 extension service providers (whole enumeration) serving in KrishiVigyanKendras ,District Agriculture Advisory Transfer of Technology Centre and ICAR institutes ,Professor JayashankarTelangana State Agricultural University were considered for the study. 39.56 per cent of the total respondents were middle age followed by 33.20 per cent young age and 27.24 per cent of the respondents were old age. more than half 56.36 per cent of the respondents were holding Doctoral degree followed by 26.11 per cent of respondents done their graduation and 17.53 per cent of the respondents completed post graduation. Out of the total respondents 54.10 per cent of them have medium willingness to pay for ICTs, followed by low (36.56%) and high (9.32%). Out of the total respondents 42.92 per cent had medium level of e-Readiness followed by high (30.59%) and low (26.49%). The coefficient of correlation was calculated in order to determine the relationship between the selected independent variables. Out of all the respondents Age, Experience, Job satisfaction, Job performance, and Mass media exposure was found positively correlated and significant at one percent level of significance. The outcome of this study shows that some of the institutions were quite less active on social media due to lack of infrastructure, insufficient funds. Also it was found that frequency in updating videos, information found to be low. The ICT usage and produce efforts of scientists should be suitably rewarded for career advancements and appointments.
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Information communication technology