Abstract:
The purposes of the study were to describe the selected characteristics of
the farmers, to determine the extent of use of Electronic and ICT-base
media and to explore the contribution of the selected characteristics of
the farmers to their use of Electronic and ICT-base media. The study
was undertaken in three villages of Shahjahanpur upazila under Bogura
district. Validated and well-structured interview schedule was used to
collect data from 116 sample farmers during 15th February, 2022 to 15th
March, 2022. Descriptive statistics, multiple regressions were used for
analysis. The majority 63.79 percent of the farmers had medium use of
Electronic and ICT-base media in agriculture compared to 15.52 percent
had high and 20.69 percent had low use of Electronic and ICT-base
media in agriculture. Among 10 selected characteristics of the farmers,
three characteristics namely- education, extension contact and
knowledge on ICT of the farmers had significant positive contribution
with their use of ICT media in agriculture and problem faced in using
Electronic and ICT-base media had negative contribution to their use of
Electronic and ICT-base media in agriculture. The rest 6 characteristics
namely age, family size, farm size, annual family income, training on
agriculture and experience in farming had no significant contribution to
the use of Electronic and ICT-base media in agriculture.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to Department of Entomology,
Faculty of Agriculture.
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University,
Dhaka-
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTERS OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & INFORMATION SYSTEM
