1Subject Matter Specialist, Agricultural Extension, Mahayogi Gorakhnath Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Chaukmafi (Peppeganj), Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
2Professor & Head
3Assistant Professor, Department of Extension Education, UPAC, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
4Research Scholar, Department of Extension Education, NDUA&T, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh
*Corresponding author email id: rahulrrext91@gmail.com
Mobile phones have reduced the gap among farmers and buyers, now farmers directly communicate with customers and get price of their products from market. Mobile phones have also provided new approach to farmers to get latest information from meteorological department for weather conditions before using pesticides in their farms. However, internet is also disseminating information regarding price and marketing of goods and farmers are receiving information within minutes from all over the world. Into consideration of the above fact the study was conducted to examine the knowledge level of farmers about using mobile phone in the Milkipur tehsil of Ayodhya district, Uttar Pradesh during the agricultural year 2015–16. Selection of the respondents had done by simple random sampling method and 25 respondents from each village had taken to make a total sample size of 250 from the list of ten purposively selected villages for collection of primary data.
Knowledge, Mobile phone, Primary data, Purposively, Simple random sampling
