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Socioeconomic Characteristics of Farmers Who Use of Mobile Phone for Farming in Lakhnaur Block of Madhubani District of Bihar

Pankaj Kumar Mandal, Dipak De, Kirti ., Anupam Dakua

Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology · pp. 1–5 · Published 24 Sep 2016

10.9734/AJAEES/2016/27986

Abstract

Modern agriculture has become highly knowledge intensive and requires appropriate, consistent, precise and timely information on various aspects like crop management, markets, weather information etc. The nature of information always depends on a number of factors such as the farm activity, land holding, climatic conditions, marketing opportunities etc. Using the available information further depends on various factors like literacy, and economic status etc. This study is attempting to undertake a micro level analysis of collected data to assess characteristics of the respondents using mobile phone through study of Independent variables in Madhubani District of Bihar. Total of 100 farmers were randomly selected from Block Lakhnaur in Madhubani district of Bihar. Lakhnaur block consists of 44 villages, out of which 2 villages were selected randomly for this study. The data was collected through personal interview with the help of structured interview schedule.

Mobile farmer agriculture information socio-economic farming.

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