Awareness about agricultural applications by the farmers of Banaskantha district

Abstract

The study was conducted in Deesa, Vadgam and Dantiwada talukas of Banaskantha district. Five villages from each taluka were selected randomly. For selection of the farmers from each village, twenty android mobile phone holder farmers were selected randomly, thus a sample of total 300 respondents was selected for the study. From the study it can be observed that most of the respondents were middle aged group (82.00%) followed by young age, had higher secondary level of education (41.33%), low to medium level of farming experience (57.67%) and innovative proneness (65.00%), had small size of land holding (49.00%), medium to high level of mass media exposure (78.00%) and economic motivation. Most of the respondents were aware about how to download mobile application (66.00%), use of applications in plant protection measures, for getting information about current market price, but very few of the respondents (4.33%) were aware about the mobile applications which can be useful for controlling farm machinery from remote locations and the consent of user before starting the application. Among the seven independent variables three variables like mass media exposure, economic motivation and innovative proneness were highly and significantly correlated with awareness of the farmers about agricultural applications.