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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2019, Volume : 7, Issue : 4
First page : (485) Last page : (492)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.7764

Information and Communication Technology for Agricultural Development: A Review

Manjeet*, Joginder Singh Malik and Rupender Kumar
Department of Extension Education, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana)
*Corresponding Author E-mail: manjeetpanwar365@gmail.com
Received: 13.06.2019  |  Revised: 22.07.2019   |  Accepted: 27.07.2019  

 ABSTRACT

Agriculture is the most important sector in Indian economy along with it also play significant role to sustain the livelihood security for millions of farmers in the country. Today natural resource for agriculture like water, land have almost reached their potential limits along with this there are many problem like everyday fluctuation in the agricultural produces, profit of small and marginal farmers decreasing day by day and lack of receiving of appropriate information is resulting a huge gap for adoption of new technology. In the present context of agriculture soft resource like information and skill is also much important with hard resource like various inputs to increase the production of agriculture sector. So in present condition here the idea of ICT come in our mind. In today world almost everybody has owns a various tools like mobile phone and it has coverage almost all over the geographic area of the country. If we can utilize it as tool for technology transfer it can transform the face of agriculture in India without losing anything. Many initiatives have been taken by public and private sector in this regard to utilize the potential of ICT like ITC-e-Choupal, IFFCO, Tata Consultancy Services, Mahindra Kisan Mitra, Kisan Call Center, KVK-SMS service, e-NAM, Village Resource Centers (VRCs) etc. in agricultural advisory service for agronomic practices, weather forecasts and market price to disseminate the information for agricultural development. Hence, an attempt has been made in this paper is to explore the role of ICT to meet the information gap in the farmer community for boost up the agricultural production and profit of farmers.

Keyword: ICT, Agricultural development, Farmer, Technology transfer

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Cite this article: Manjeet, Malik, J.S., & Kumar, R. (2019). Information and Communication Technology for Agricultural Development: A Review, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 7(4), 485-492. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.7764