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A Case of ICT in Agriculture and Rural Development in J&K


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1 Dept of Computer Science & IT, Baba Ghula Shah Badshah University, Jammu, India
2 Dept of Computer science & IT, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
 

In order to transform rural community into an information driven, modern and competitive society, the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) can not be ruled out. The existing Transfer of Technology mechanisms and extension programs, mostly run by the government departments, eg: Community Information centers (CIC) by National Informatics Center (NIC) in Jammu and Kashmir state & North eastern states, Agriculture Universities, Agriculture knowledge centers (Known as Krishi vigyan kendras (KVK)) of India are slow and in many cases ineffective as bridges between the research community and the farmers as the proper use of ICT hasn't been made till date. For this study, a Stratified sampling has been done for the in-depth analysis to find out the relation of ICT with agriculture and rural development on a five point likert scale and using a Socio-Economic-Scale named Uday Pareek scale (Uday Pareek, 2001).

Keywords

ICT, Agriculture, Rural Development, Technology Divide, Farming Community, Community Information Center, Agriculture Knowledge Center, Krishi Vigyan Kendra.
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Sanjay Jamwal
Dept of Computer Science & IT, Baba Ghula Shah Badshah University, Jammu, India
Devanand Padha
Dept of Computer science & IT, University of Jammu, Jammu, India

Abstract


In order to transform rural community into an information driven, modern and competitive society, the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) can not be ruled out. The existing Transfer of Technology mechanisms and extension programs, mostly run by the government departments, eg: Community Information centers (CIC) by National Informatics Center (NIC) in Jammu and Kashmir state & North eastern states, Agriculture Universities, Agriculture knowledge centers (Known as Krishi vigyan kendras (KVK)) of India are slow and in many cases ineffective as bridges between the research community and the farmers as the proper use of ICT hasn't been made till date. For this study, a Stratified sampling has been done for the in-depth analysis to find out the relation of ICT with agriculture and rural development on a five point likert scale and using a Socio-Economic-Scale named Uday Pareek scale (Uday Pareek, 2001).

Keywords


ICT, Agriculture, Rural Development, Technology Divide, Farming Community, Community Information Center, Agriculture Knowledge Center, Krishi Vigyan Kendra.