| Abstract: |
Knowledge is an increasingly significant factor of production in modern
agriculture. Information and communication Technology (ICT) generated lot of
hopes to disseminate updated information to the farming community, overcoming
the barriers of distance, socio-economic status, gender etc. ICTs can
accelerate agricultural development by facilitating knowledge management.
Several ICT initiatives in rural India and implementation of ICTs in
agriculture has been proposed and developed in the recent decades. though
there are so many ICT tools available in villages still many of the farmers
are not making use of these tools for obtaining timely information due to
physical, social and psychological barriers. Especially, attitude of the
farmers plays a significant role in accepting and using these tools. since
these initiatives are new to their social system and establish rare contact
with the external world. Hence, the study was conducted in Karnataka state to
know the attitude of farmers about ICT tools using for farm communication. The
findings of the study revealed that more than two-fifth of the farmers had
favorable attitude towards ICT tools followed by least favorable attitude and
most favorable attitude towards ICT tools. Majority of the respondents had
knowledge about TV and mobile which are providing agricultural information but
majority of the respondents didn’t know regarding internet, agricultural
DVDs, social media and interactive conferencing. Hence, there is need to
educate the farmers regarding ICT tools like internet, conferencing and
agricultural DVDs by means of providing training and make availability of
these ICT tools in rural areas. |