Abstract:
The prime objective of the study was to find out the impact of ICTs use as
perceived by the farmers of Bangladesh. Appropriate scale was developed to
measure the impact effectively. Seven items of ICTs was taken as TV
agricultural program, Radio agricultural program, Telecommunication,
Poster, Newspaper, Multimedia, and Internet. Attempt was also made to
explore the relationship between the impact ofICTs use by the farmerswith
their selected characteristics. The characteristics were age, education, farm
size, annual income, social participation, use of ICTs materials, farming
experience, cosmopoliteness, agricultural knowledge and innovativeness.
Data were collected from 1 02 farmers which were randomly selected from
Itbaria union of Patuakhali Shadar Upazila under Patuakhali district. About
four percent had no impact where 16.6 percent had very low impact, 34.4
percent had low impact and 44.l percent had medium impact of ICTs use.
Significant relationship was found with farmers' education, farm size,
annual income, use of ICTs materials, cosmopoliteness, contact with mass
media, agricultural knowledge and innovativeness. No relationship was
found with farmers' age, social participation and farming experience.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
