FARMERS’ USE OF ELECTRONIC AND ICT-BASE MEDIA IN SHAJHANPUR UPAZILA OF BOGURA DISTRICT

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.