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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
Agrotechnology, an open access journal
ISSN: 2168-9881
Agri 2017
October 02-04, 2017
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10
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International Conference on
AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE
October 02-04, 2017 London, UK
Influence of ICTs Services and Applications on Agricultural Development
Tahir Munir Butt
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1
University of Agriculture, Pakistan
2
China Agricultural University, China
T
he major problem was to bring improvement in the quality of life of rural people without ICTs services and applications
in Agriculture. In rapidly changing local and global agricultural market and price mechanism, it is difficult for traditional
and poor farmers to maintain their farm productivity and one of the major problem is clear the weakness of physical distance
and logistic problems with time availability of relevant information are the foremost hurdles in personal communication and
dissemination of information about cropping technologies especially in critically stage of crops, weather forecast. Punjab-
Pakistan province was selected purposively as the study province for the said study. In the present study, convenient and simple
random sampling techniques was used to cover the whole province of the Punjab. Total sample size of the study was three
hundred (300) user-ICTs. It was concluded that information attained by ICTs (services and applications) like a telephone with
toll-free number application, cell phone with text and robo calls applications, computer with internet application, personal
characteristics and capacity building of the farmer were significantly correlatedwith the decision-making aspects with important
for awareness, knowledge, capacity building, timely information, improved productivity and also marketing purpose etc. There
is need to restructure and redesign present technology transfer and flow of information scenario of agricultural extension
system to make convenient efforts for provision of counseling services and agricultural information sources (Information Hub
Center) to rural farming societies by Government.
tahirmunir2013@gmail.comAgrotechnology 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2168-9881-C1-028