Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
SK Mahajan, RP Kadam, GS Pawar and Bangar RU

Abstract:
The present investigation is conducted in Marathwada region of the Maharashtra state during 2021-2022with the objective to study “Attitude of farmers towards use of information and communication technology on agricultural production and marketing”. Parbhani district was selected randomly from Marathwada region. Three talukas from Parbhani district and five villages from each talukas were selected randomly for the study. From each selected village, ten farmers were selected randomly on the basis of awareness about ICT tools to acquire farm knowledge in this way total 150 respondents were considered for thestudy. An Ex-post-facto research design was followed for the study. Data was gathered using a well-structured interview schedule created with the study's objectives in mind. The collected data was analysis, classified and tabulated. Statistical tools such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and coefficient correlation were used to interpret findings and draw conclusions. Among the 150 selected farmers majorityof the farmers that is more than half (74.00%) of the farmers had moderately favourable attitude towards use of ICT tools, followed by less favourable attitude i.e. 14.67 percent and very few respondents had highly favourable attitude towards usages of ICT (11.33 percent).