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International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2019, Volume : 7, Issue : 3
First page : (253) Last page : (256)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.6749

Farmers’ Perception towards the Use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) Tools for Goat Rearing Practices in
Fatehpur District of Uttar Pradesh, India

Prabhat Yadav¹, Braj Mohan², Mahesh Chander¹, Jayant Goyal¹*, Amit Kumar¹, Rita Bharti¹

¹Division of Extension Education, ² Division of Extension Education,
ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Goats, Makhdoom-281122 (U.P.), India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: jayantvety@gmail.com
Received: 27.07.2018 | Revised: 30.08.2018 | Accepted: 10.09.2018  

 ABSTRACT

The study investigated perception of goat rearing farmers towards the use of information communication technology tools in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh state. This study was conducted to identify the awareness, accessibility, utilization pattern and constraints perceived by 150 goat rearing farmers towards the use of ICT tools in Fatehpur districts of Uttar Pradesh. The result revealed that majority of the respondents (80.66%) had low awareness level of using of ICT tools, 48.00 per cent respondents had low level of accessibility of ICT tools, whereas 90 per cent of respondents had low utilization level of ICT tools. Among constraints, lack of training for using ICT tools was perceived as serious constraints by 95.34 per cent of respondents. Hence, study recommends that government agencies should conduct training programme and awareness campaign to disseminate beneficial effect of using ICT tools for improvement of livelihood of the goat farmers.

Key words: Awareness, Accessibility, Goat farmers, Information communication technology, Utilization pattern.

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Cite this article: Yadav, P., Mohan, B., Chander, M., Goyal, J., Kumar, A., Bharti, R., Farmers’ Perception towards the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) Tools for Goat Rearing Practices in Fatehpur District of Uttar Pradesh, India, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.7(3): 253-256 (2019). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.6749