ATTITUDE OF FARMERS TOWARDS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

M.T. LAKSHMINARARYAN¹, K. SHIVARAMU², H.K. PANKAJA³, PREETHI⁴*
¹Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru, 560065, Karnataka, India
²Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru, 560065, Karnataka, India
³Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru, 560065, Karnataka, India
⁴Indo-German Collaborative Project, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru, 560065, Karnataka, India
* Corresponding Author : preethiuasb@gmail.com

Received : 27-06-2022     Accepted : 13-08-2022     Published : 30-08-2022
Volume : 14     Issue : 8       Pages : 11552 - 11554
Int J Agr Sci 14.8 (2022):11552-11554

Keywords : Attitude, ICT tools, Farmers, Mass media participation, Extension agency contact
Academic Editor : Dr Ganeshgouda I Patil
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Bio-technology (DBT), Government of India for financial support. Authors are thankful to Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru, 560065, Karnataka, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

The present study was conducted during 2021-22 to analyse the attitude of farmers towards information and communication technology tools. One hundred and ninety-six farmers in Bangalore rural and Ramanagara districts were interviewed for the purpose using a pre-tested interview schedule. The findings revealed that a larger number of farmers (38.77%) had more favourable attitude towards ICT tools, whereas 33.16 of the farmers had favourable attitude towards ICT tools and the remaining 28.07 per cent of the farmers had less favourable towards ICT tools. Education, land holding, annual income, innovative proneness, mass media participation, extension participation and extension agency contact of farmers had significant to highly significant relationship with their attitude towards information and communication technology tools. The ranking of percentages of distance measured by the important independent variables revealed that the first seven ranks comprising, annual income (21.61%), education (20.16%), mass media participation (13.12%), innovative proneness (11.10%), extension participation (9.61%), extension agency contact (8.01%) and land holding (3.06%), had contributed in developing more favorable attitude among farmers towards information and communication technology tools

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