Accessibility and utilization of electronic and web based weather information sources by farmers of Ranchi district of Jharkhand

Abstract

The present research was conducted in Ranchi district of Jharkhand in the selected eight villages. In this investigation it was found that majority of the farmers (85.8%) had low access to electronic and web based weather information sources majority of the farmers (92.5%) had low utilization of such weather information sources. Through regression analysis, it was found that the R2 between personal variables and accessibility was 0.895 and the R2 between personal variables and utilization was 0.725.