ATTITUDE OF AGRICULTURAL PERSONNEL TOWARDS e- AGRICULTURAL PORTAL
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Date
2017
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AAU, Anand
Abstract
Agriculture plays an essential role in the process of
economic development of developing countries like India. Besides
providing food to nation, agriculture contributes to market of
industrial goods and earns foreign exchange. Agricultural
development is an integral part of overall economic development. In
spite of this, it is also an important feature of agriculture that is to be
noted that growth of other sectors and overall economy depends on
the performance of agriculture to a considerable extent.
ICT has become a global tool often used by individuals,
organizations, governments and inter-governmental organizations for
personnel or official activities. Its application cut across all fields of
human endeavor like medicine, commerce, engineering, architecture,
education, library services and agriculture.
The application of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) in agriculture is increasingly important. E
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Agriculture is an emerging field focusing on the enhancement of
agricultural and rural development through improved information and
communication processes.
In India, there are a number of web portals for smart egovernance
but in agriculture sector, this concept is yet to remain
implemented. Different sites or web portals are there but these all are
in different commands and different objectives which not able to full
fill need of farmers at one address. There is e-portal for agriculture
which includes agriculture related latest information, latest
technology, communication about agronomical practices, information
about input availability, weather, market, processing etc. Keeping in
view the above said facts, this study on “Attitude of Agricultural
Personnel Towards e- Agricultural Portal”was under taken with
followingspecific objectives:
1. To study the profile of agricultural personnel.
2. To measure the attitude of agricultural personnel towards
e-agricultural portal.
3. To ascertain relationship between profile of agricultural
personnel and their attitude towards e-agricultural portal.
4. To identify constraints faced by agricultural personnel
regarding e-agricultural portal.
5. To seek the suggestions to overcome the constraints faced
by agricultural personnel regarding e-agricultural portal.
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Methodology
The present study was undertaken in Gandhinagar
district of Gujarat state. In the Gandhinagardistrict, personnel from
departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry,
Government of Gujarat working at Krushibhavan, Gandhinagar were
selected purposively. From that100 agricultural personnel were
selected by using simple random sampling method for the study.
The dependent variable undertaken in this study was
attitude of agricultural personnel towards e-agricultural portal. The
independent variables were; age, education and experience in job as
personnel variables; social participationssocial variable; occupation
and annual income as economical variables; mass media exposure
andcomputer inclination as communicational variables and economic
motivation, scientific orientation and risk orientation as psychological
variables.
To study the Attitude of Agricultural Personnel towards
e-Agricultural Portal, Attitude scale developed by Dr. M.C. Patelwas
used with some modifications. Independent variables were measured
by using suitable scales and procedures adopted by various
researchers with suitable modifications. An interview schedule was
developed in accordance with the objectives of the study. The data of
this study were collected through personnel interview. The collected
data were classified, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted in order to
make the findings meaningful. The statistical measures such
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asfrequency and percentage, arithmetic mean,
of correlation and arbitrary
Major findings
1. Great majority (92.00 per cent) of the
belonged to the young to middle age group.
2. More than forth
personnel had education from graduation to master degree.
3. Slightly more than four
personnel had low to medium experience.
4. Great majority (97.00 per cent)
no social participation.
5. Slightly more than four
personnel were
6. More than three
personnel had more than
7. Slightly more
personnel had high to very high level of mass media exposure.
8. More than three
had medium to high level of computer inclination.
9. Slightly more than three
agricultural
economic motivation.
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frequency Karl Pearson
method were used in the study.
agricultural
forth-fifth (86.00 per cent) of the a
four-fifth (83.00 per cent) of the a
of the agricultural
lightly four-fifth (82.00 per cent) of the a
depending on service and agriculture + service.
three-fifth (65.00 per cent) of the a
5 lakh of annual income.
than four-fifth (82.00 per cent) of the a
three-forth (77.00 per cent) of agricultural
three-forth (79.00 per cent) of the
gricultural personnel were found with low to medium level of
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coefficient
gricultural personnel
agricultural
agricultural
gricultural personnel had
agricultural
agricultural
agricultural
personnel
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10. Slightly more than four-fifth (83.00 per cent) of the agricultural
personnel had medium to high level of scientific orientation.
11. Great majority (97.00 per cent) of the agricultural personnel had
high level of risk orientation.
12. Great majority (97.00 per cent) of the agricultural personnel had
favorable to highly favorable attitude towards e-agricultural
portal.
13. The independent variable viz. computer inclination of
agricultural personnel had positive and highly significant
correlation with their attitude towards e-agricultural portals.
Whereas variables like education, mass media exposure and
scientific orientation of agricultural personnel had positive and
significant relationship with their attitudes towards eagricultural
portals. The variable like age of agricultural
personnel shows negative and significant relationship with their
attitude toward e-agricultural portal. Whereas variables like
experience, social participation, occupation and annual income
of agricultural personnel had negative and non-significant
relationship with their attitude towards e-agricultural portal.
14. The major constraints faced by the agricultural personnel
regarding e-agricultural portal in descending order of rank were;
lack of up-to-date facilities in own office/department, uneven
speed of internet, lack of user friendly e-agricultural portal, lack
of skill enhancement & training to agricultural personal, lack of
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time, lack of skills using all the features of internet, lack of
skills in efficient maintenance of online information and lack of
dynamic facilities available on internet on the server of
government of Gujarat.
15. The major suggestions to overcome constraints faced by the
agricultural personnelregarding e-agriculture portal in
descending order of rank were; each agricultural personnel
should be provided an advanced computer set with internet
facilities, the e-agricultural portal should be modified and made
it user friendly, refresher training on efficient e-agricultural
portal for agricultural personnel should be organized, work
should be rational and make system easy to ensure time
availability for accessing internet and compulsory provision of
training should be there to create computer literacy at advance
level.
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Keywords
Agriculture, Distance Education, study