National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
There have been number of ICT initiatives implemented by central, various state governments and private sectors for the benefit of the farming community. An effort was made in 2017 to analyse the perceived effectiveness of ICT tools among the farmers in Koppal district of Karnataka state. Two villages from all the four blocks of the district were selected. From each revenue villages 15 farmer respondents were selected by employing multistage random sampling method which constituted total of 120 respondents. Majority (86.80 %) of the respondents had medium level of perceived effectiveness of ICT tools in agriculture, followed by 9.10 per cent of the respondents had low level of perceived effectiveness of ICT tools in agriculture. Very meagre (3.30 %) portion of the respondents had high level of perceived effectiveness of ICT tools in agriculture. In particular over whelming majority (96.70 %) of the respondents perceived that ICT tools reduce the cost of transportation in acquiring information. Vast majority (95.80 %) of the respondents quoted that ICT tools help to store and retrieve information any number of times.
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