Extent of Adoption of Agro Advisories Disseminated Through Annapurna Krishi Prasar Seva (AKPS) at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Palem in Telangana State, India
Banda Rajashekar
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Palem, Nagarkurnool District, Telangana, India.
Mandla Rajashekhar *
Institute of Biotechnology, PJTSAU, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India.
Thalla Prabhakar Reddy
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Palem, Nagarkurnool District, Telangana, India.
Maligi Jagan Mohan Reddy
Extension Education Institute, PJTSAU, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India.
Adhi Shankar
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Palem, Nagarkurnool District, Telangana, India.
Kommagoni Ramakrishna
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Palem, Nagarkurnool District, Telangana, India.
Ongole Shaila
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Palem, Nagarkurnool District, Telangana, India.
E. Jyoshna
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Palem, Nagarkurnool District, Telangana, India.
Afifa Jahan
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Palem, Nagarkurnool District, Telangana, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Agriculture is the most sector in developing countries like India, the majority of them depending on it, to upliftment of their economic status. Most farmers have adopted traditional agricultural practices for farming in the last several years. In this context, the extension system depends on the ICT platform, and it plays a greater role in uplifting the livelihoods of rural people by effectively providing need-based and location-specific information. ICT’s today serving many purposes in agriculture, business, and social development activities, etc., especially in agriculture from crop production technologies to marketing, facilitating forward & backward linkages to the farm produce. In this study impact of agro advisories disseminated through AKPS inferred that 42.50 per cent of the respondents were grouped under the medium category of adoption followed by high (40.00%), low (10.83%) and very low (06.67%) respective categories. Most of the respondents irrespective of the crop had a high level of knowledge about modern technologies. It was also found that the knowledge level of the farmers changed with what they had been growing seasonal crops.
Keywords: ICTs, agriculture, AKPS, extent of adoption, information and farmers