Farmers’ awareness on use of ICT in farm practices

Fahim Hasan, M. Rahman, M. Hoque, Khondokar Kamruzzaman, Md. Azizur Rahman, Subrato Mojumder, Mt Mimi Talukdar
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The main purpose of the study was to understand the extent of awareness of farmers on use of ICT in farm practices. At the same time, important factors were identified those could contribute to farmers‟ awareness on use of ICT. The study was conducted in the existing CIG of Ishwarganj upazila in Mymensingh district. Data were collected from 110 CIG farmers in the selected upazila during the period from 03 October to 05 November, 2018 by using a pre-tested structured interview schedule. Farmers‟ awareness was measured by checking extent of their extent of awareness of seven selected ICT services as cell phone, smart phone, personal computer, services from AICC, services from UDC, Krishi Call Centre and mobile apps. A number of characteristics of the farmers were selected as the factors for explaining farmers‟ awareness on use of ICT. Appropriate scales were developed and used in order to measure the concerned variables. Correlation test was used to ascertain the relationships between the concerned variables, while multiple regression (enter method) analysis was also used to determine the contributions of the farmers' selected characteristics to their opinion on selected ICT based facilities. Results showed that 23.7 percent farmers had “moderate awareness” on use of ICT in farm practices while 60 percent and 12.7 percent of the farmers had “low” and “very low awareness” on use of ICT based facilities in their farm practices. Farmers' characteristics such as education, knowledge about ICTs, ability to use ICTs, access to ICT facilities, attitude towards ICT had significant positive relationship with their awareness on use of ICT; while age, household size and annual income had significant negative relationship with the awareness on use of ICT. Results of multiple regression analysis revealed that the influential factors on the farmers‟ awareness on use of ICT were household size, knowledge about ICT, ability to use ICT and attitude towards ICT. The R2 value indicated that, four explanatory variables together explained 80.0 percent variation infarmers‟ awareness on use of ICT. The study also identified some constraints faced by the farmers while using ICT services in receiving agricultural information. The study revealed that an overwhelming majority of the farmers (97.3 percent) had high level problems in using ICTs while only 2.7 percent faced medium problems. Lack of training facilities on ICT, cost of using ICT services, low knowledge on availability of ICT based facilities, lack of operational knowledge of computer, low bandwidth speed of internet, limited availability of ICT services, poor level of education/ illiteracy, and so on were identified as the major constraints faced by the farmers. Asian Australas. J. Biosci. Biotechnol. 2019, 4 (1), 34-47
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农民在农业实践中使用信息通信技术的意识
这项研究的主要目的是了解农民对在农业实践中使用信息和通信技术的认识程度。同时,还确定了有助于提高农民使用信息和通信技术意识的重要因素。该研究是在Mymensingh地区Ishwarganj upazila现有的CIG中进行的。在2018年10月3日至11月5日期间,通过预先测试的结构化访谈时间表,从选定的upazila的110名CIG农民中收集了数据。通过检查农民对手机、智能手机、个人电脑、AICC服务、UDC服务、Krishi呼叫中心和移动应用程序等七种选定ICT服务的认识程度来衡量农民的意识。选择农民的一些特征作为解释农民使用信息通信技术意识的因素。为了测量相关变量,开发并使用了适当的量表。采用相关检验确定相关变量之间的关系,同时采用多元回归(进入法)分析确定农民所选择的特征对他们所选择的ICT基础设施的意见的贡献。结果显示,23.7%的农民对在农业实践中使用ICT有“中等意识”,而60%和12.7%的农民对在农业实践中使用ICT基础设施有“低意识”和“非常低意识”。农民的教育程度、信息通信技术知识、信息通信技术使用能力、信息通信技术设施获取情况、信息通信技术态度等特征与信息通信技术使用意识呈显著正相关;而年龄、家庭规模和年收入与信息通信技术使用意识呈显著负相关。多元回归分析结果显示,农户信息通信技术使用意识的影响因素为家庭规模、信息通信技术知识、信息通信技术使用能力和信息通信技术态度。R2值表明,四个解释变量加在一起解释了农民对ICT使用意识的80.0%的变化。该研究还确定了农民在使用信息通信技术服务获取农业信息时面临的一些限制。研究显示,绝大多数农民(97.3%)在使用信息通信技术方面存在严重问题,而只有2.7%的农民面临中等问题。缺乏信息和通信技术培训设施、使用信息和通信技术服务的成本、对信息和通信技术设施可用性的认识不足、缺乏计算机操作知识、互联网带宽速度低、信息和通信技术服务可用性有限、教育水平低/文盲等被确定为农民面临的主要制约因素。亚洲Australas。j . Biosci。生物技术,2019,4 (1),34-47
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