1Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad-580005, Karnataka, India
Divison of Dairy Extension, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal-132001, Haryana, India
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Online published on 25 July, 2018.
The study was conducted to elicit the knowledge of farmers of Belgaum district of Karnataka about information and communication technology (ICT) projects. Among the various ICT projects in operation, four projects namely Kisan call centre (KCC), e-Choupal, Krishi Marata Vahini and Raith Mitra Kendra's web portal were selected for the study. A sample of 140 respondents was selected randomly and was personally interviewed using pre-tested schedule. It was revealed that most of the respondents had high knowledge of KCC (40.00%) followed by medium of e-Choupal (39.29%) and Krishi Marata Vahini (37.14%) but low knowledge of Raith Mitra Kendra (30.71%). It was also observed that most of the farmers with high knowledge of all four ICT projects were young (53.33%) followed by middle age (22.03%) and old (15.69%). Most of the farmers were having low knowledge of ICT projects that needed special attention to make them well informed of functioning of these projects.
ICT projects, information technology, knowledge, farmers
