Factors affecting mobile phone usage by the farmers in receiving information on vegetable cultivation in Bangladesh

Asif, Abu Salem; Uddin, Mohammed Nasir; Dev, Debashish Sarker; Miah, Mohammad Alam

doi:10.17700/jai.2017.8.2.376

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“…However, age of the farmers and farming experience had shown significant and negative relationship with their access to ICT based media. Similar results were found by Asif [16]. This is may be due to the reason that young people are always interested to ICTs compared to old farmers.…”

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Farmers’ Access to ICT Based Media in Receiving Farm Information: A Grassroots Level Study from Bangladesh

Khalak¹,

Sarker²,

Uddin³

2018

AJRD

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Information is one of the vital factors of production while ICT to provide efficient and effective information. Thus, the study was undertaken mainly to determine farmers' extent of access to ICT based media in receiving agricultural information. Besides, important factors associated with farmers' extent of access to ICT based media were also explored. The study was conducted at Fulbaria upazila (sub-district) under Mymensingh district in Bangladesh. Eighty (80) farmers were interviewed using structured questionnaire to collect the data. Both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis were used to interpret the trend and tendencies of collected data. The findings of the study revealed that the majority (81.2 percent) of the respondents had low access to ICT while only 3.8 percent had medium access and 15.0 percent of them having no access to ICT based media. The step-wise multiple regression results explored that availability of ICTs, knowledge on ICT and training received on ICTs were identified as influential factors in case of increasing the extent of farmers' access to ICT based media. Lack of operational knowledge of computer, poor level of education, lack of training facilities on ICT, insufficient numbers of ICT centre, poor knowledge on the availability of ICT based facilities, lack of personal interest were identified as the major constraints faced by the farmers to access to ICTs based media.

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Farmers’ Access to ICT Based Media in Receiving Farm Information: A Grassroots Level Study from Bangladesh

Khalak¹,

Sarker²,

Uddin³

2018

AJRD

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“…On the other hand, no significant relation was found between socioeconomic characteristics of large farmers and overall usage of online and mobile media. The results of the correlations corroborate the studies by Khan et al, [8] Asif et al, [9] and Hinduja et al [10], who reported similar findings.…”

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Relationship between Socioeconomic Characteristics and Usability of Online and Mobile Media among Farmers of Punjab

Kaur

Thapar

2019

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The present paper is an endeavour to analyze the accessibility and usability of online and mobile media among farmers and to find out the relationship between socioeconomic variables and various online and mobile media. The primary data were collected from randomly selected 720 farmers from 16 villages of Punjab through self-structured questionnaire. The findings of the study indicate that 99.17 per cent of farmers in the study area had access to mobile phones while 78.05 per cent farmers were using internet on their mobile phones. However, 60.56 per cent farmers had used agri-apps and agricultural websites to obtain agricultural information. Only 43 per cent of them had positive perception towards the usefulness of information attained through online and mobile media. Further, there was a positive correlation of socioeconomic characteristics such as education, income and land with usage of online and mobile media whereas age and experience had shown negative correlation. This implies that with the increase in age and experience of farmers, the possibility of using mobile and online media for agricultural information declined whereas higher education, larger landholdings and more income facilitated greater use of mobile phones and internet for agriculture purposes. Thus, the socioeconomic characteristics of farmers had a direct and deep relationship with the accessibility and usage of online and mobile media among farmers of Punjab. The study recommends that a policy should be framed to educate the elderly farmers regarding the use of the new media. The scope of formal education among the youth should also be expended to realize the full potential of this medium.

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“…Better distribution of mass media can increase agricultural attractiveness and providing more information to stakeholder for increasing production (Rao, 2007). Mass media have potentiality to provide timely and reliable information on weather, input prices, and marketing of the products (Chapman and Slaymaker, 2002) Although a number of studies have already been conducted in Bangladesh on use of different mass media in technology transfer to farmers (Asif, 2016;Sharmin, 2013), study on effectiveness of these media particularly in agricultural area is scarcely available. However, no systematic study is available on the aspects of effectiveness of mass media in receiving technical information as well as technology transfer to the farmers.…”

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Effectiveness of selected mass media in agricultural technology transfer to the farmers of Bangladesh

Khan

Rahman

Uddin

2017

Res. Agric. Livest. Fish.

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Effectiveness Mass media Technology transfer Farmers BangladeshThe role of mass media in dissemination of farm information to the farmers is crucial. Thus, the study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of selected mass media in agricultural technology transfer to farmers of Bangladesh and identify the influential factors affecting the effectiveness of mass media in technology transfer to farmers. The study was conducted in three villages of Gouripur sub-district under Mymensingh district in Bangladesh. One hundred ten farmers were interviewed using a structured questionnaire for data collection during the period of 15 May to 15 June, 2016. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the collected data. Results show that 62.7 per cent of the farmers perceived that effectiveness of mass media in technology transfer was low, while 31.8 per cent and 5.5 per cent of them perceived the issue as "moderately effective" and "highly effective", respectively. Television was most popular mass media compared to radio, leaflet, poster and farm magazine based on the farmers' responses. Out of eight characteristics, farmers' education, extension contact and use of media had positively significant with the effectiveness of mass media. Multiple regression analysis revealed that 39.3% of the total variation in perceived effectiveness of mass media explained by two variables, namely education and use of media and identified as influential factors affecting the effectiveness of selected mass media.To cite this article: Khan S, MH Rahman and MN Uddin, 2017. Effectiveness of selected mass media in agricultural technology transfer to the farmers of Bangladesh. Res. Agric. Livest., Fish.,4 (1): 07-13. Khan et al. Role of certain mass media in agricultural technology transfer to the farmersRes.

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Factors affecting mobile phone usage by the farmers in receiving information on vegetable cultivation in Bangladesh

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Farmers’ Access to ICT Based Media in Receiving Farm Information: A Grassroots Level Study from Bangladesh

Farmers’ Access to ICT Based Media in Receiving Farm Information: A Grassroots Level Study from Bangladesh

Relationship between Socioeconomic Characteristics and Usability of Online and Mobile Media among Farmers of Punjab

Effectiveness of selected mass media in agricultural technology transfer to the farmers of Bangladesh

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