The Complementary Roles of Information and Communication Technology in Bangladesh Agriculture

Kashem, MA; Faroque, M. A. A.; Ahmed, Gmf; Bilkas, SE

doi:10.3329/jsf.v8i1-2.14639

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“…On the other hand, their annual income farming experience were moderate and it was 113.3 thousand BDT and 24.28 years respectively. While mean organization participation score was poor (2.95) compared to highest organization score (10). However, though the mean availability of ICT based media score in the study area was poor (3.47) but their average knowledge on ICT score was medium (7.01).…”

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“…There are 245 AICCs in the country those providing services like weather information, crop cultivation techniques, disease and insect information and latest price information to 40-50 famers per day which is not really sufficient [9]. However, the cost factor in faceto-face information dissemination at the right time , and the difficulties in reaching the target audiences, has also created the urgency of introducing ICT based media in agricultural technology transfer [10]. Considering these realities the present study was undertaken to assess the level of access of the farmers to ICT based media for receiving agricultural information and to explore the factors responsible to affect farmers' access to ICT 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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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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“…Agriculture is the important sector and key contributors to the national GDP of Bangladesh. Around 20.60% of the total GDP of the country comes from the agricultural sector [11].…”

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“…On the other hand, although the appointed Village Local Workers (VLWs) disseminate the information, they hardly accept any accountability. The cost factor in face-to-face information dissemination at the right time, and the difficulties in reaching the target audiences, has also created the urgency to introduce ICT [11]. Thus, the present study is an attempt to investigate the preferences of different ICT tools by the Upazila Agricultural Officers.…”

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Preferences of ICT Tools by the Upazila Agriculture Officers (UAOs) for the Information Exchange in Bangladesh

Kabir

Roy

2015

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The purpose of the study was to investigate the preferences of ICT tools by the Upazila Agricultural Officers, Bangladesh for the exchange of information. Data were collected using distributed questionnaires among the respondents. The findings showed that majority of the respondents (93.8%) had highly favorable attitude towards ICTs while 6.3% percent had moderately favorable attitude and there was no respondent had slightly favorable attitude towards ICTs. It also found that the highly preferred ICT tool by the UAOs is cell phone (1.76) and the second highly preferred tool is tab with the mean value 1.74, and on the other hand, internet (1.31) is the least preferred tools by the respondents. Correlation showed that age, job duration, personality characteristics, ambition and access to ICT tools showed significant relationship with the preferences of ICT tools by the UAOs. Challenges in using ICTs revealed that load shedding problem (2.21), lack of training facilities (2.19) and indifferences of farmers to get information through ICT (2.19) are the major challenges faced by the Upazila Agriculture Officers. Thus, it can be recommended that more ICT tools should be made available to the respondents with properly addressing the challenges so that they will be able to choose from various alternatives and also be able to gather and disseminate useful information to the farmers.

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“…Agriculture, being one of the major driving forces is contributing maximum share to the GDP and the growing economy of the country. Almost 80% of the total workforce directly connected to agriculture (Kashem et al, 2010). Due to the rapid growth of population the food demand is increased.…”

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ICT management tool uses in agricultural extension services in Bangladesh

Rahman

Mohammad

Sultana

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Bangladesh J. Agric. Res

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Bangladeshi farmers gain traditional agricultural knowledge and skills by hereditary. Such experience and historic knowledge are now inadequate to meet the food requirement of the huge population of the country. Thus modernization of the traditional system is very essential for the agriculture sector of Bangladesh. This article focuses on the innovations and developments. As such we have given focused on by ICT access in agricultural sector of Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a developing country. Agriculture, being one of the major driving forces is contributing maximum share to the GDP and the growing economy of the country. Almost 80% of the total workforce directly connected to agriculture (Kashem et al., 2010). Due to the rapid growth of population the food demand is increased. Though the agricultural sector is developing it does not achieve the optimum level due to lack of up to date knowledge and information. Usually the farmers counter difficulties in obtaining the proper information as they collect information from conventional and traditional sources like extension fellow farmers. From season to season there is high demand of up to date information for new cultivation processing techniques, pest and diseases control, marketing and consumer demand, crops transport etc (Malone et al., 2012).Timely and accurate information can assist farmers to protect from potential seasonal losses. Up to date knowledge can helps them to make optimum use of limited resources. As such the conventional method of cultivation is to be changed using modern digital ICT services.The Country has stepped into new era of digital world with a spectacular vision for making Digital Bangladesh. This vision would be saddled by e-agriculture involving multi disciplinary initiatives of agricultural information, agricultural development and entrepreneurship towards building a hunger free, efficient and resourceful Bangladesh.The history of ICT use in Bangladesh agriculture is not so rich. ICT taskforce program launched in 2003 by the ministry of agriculture perhaps would be the first initiative to set up on Agricultural Information system. Recently a dedicated division Agricultural Statistics and Information & Communication Technology (ASICT) has been established in BARI for providing the agricultural Information

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The Complementary Roles of Information and Communication Technology in Bangladesh Agriculture

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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

Preferences of ICT Tools by the Upazila Agriculture Officers (UAOs) for the Information Exchange in Bangladesh

ICT management tool uses in agricultural extension services in Bangladesh

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