1. Exploring usage of smartphone among farmers of district bahawalnagar for agricultural extension information
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Riaz, Saqib (author), Iqbal, Ashraf (author), and Husain, Basharat (author)
- Format:
- journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-09-02
- Published:
- Pakistan: Directorate of Agricultural Information Lahore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12678
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 60, N. 3
- Notes:
- 5 pages, The current study also focuses and analyses the farmers’ inclination and their usage of smart phone for agricultural extension. This research is based on survey research method in which a closed-ended questionnaire was developed after the review of relevant literature. Furthermore, purposive and convenient sampling techniques were used to collect the data from the respondents who are farmers in Punjab. The study was conducted during the year 2020 in the selected district of Bahawalnagar. Overall results elaborate that age and education were among the factors that accounted for familiarity with apps. However, 42.9 percent of the respondents with the age 30 to 40 were somehow familiar with Agri-apps and 17.3 percent of respondents with twelve years of schooling were familiar with the apps usage. Likewise, 37 respondents in age bracket of 20 to 30 were of the view that usage of apps have resulted in increased agricultural production. It was concluded that age and education of the respondents had significant impact on the usage and familiarity of the apps available on smart phones.