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 |
Agriculture is one of the most important sector in India which could be benefitted tremendously with application of information and communication technologies. In this regards, extensive use of modern ICT tools need to be promoted to farm level for the transfer of technologies and information in a cost effective manner. This study was conducted in the Tirunelveli districts of Tamilnadu during 2019-20 to assess the perception of farmers towards use of modern ICT tools using for farm communication. Proportionate random sampling technique was used in the selection of 150 farmers as the sample of the study. A well structured interview schedule was used for data collection and appropriate statistical tools were used to analyze the collected data. Among 150 farmers selected for the study, majority of the respondents (80.66%) had low awareness level of using ICT tools, (48.00%) of the respondents had low level of accessibility of ICT tools whereas (90.00%) of the respondents had low utilization of using of modern ICT tools. Among the constraints lack of training for using ICT tools was perceived as a major constraints by(95.34%) of the respondents. Hence this study recommends that government agencies should provide training and awareness programme to disseminate the beneficial effect of using ICT tools for the improvement of the livelihood of the rural farmers.
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