Role of ICT in hill agriculture system

Data regarding use of ICT media as a information sources indicates that radio, TV, various print media sources, farm advisory service, extension staff, Fellow farmers, Non Governmental Organizations, Farmers fair/Exhibition/Field days and Kisan Gosthi is the major source of agriculture for farm families. People have to depend on radio to meet their needs of information, education and entertainment. It was further found that various programmes on radio were listened occasionally as Kheti Ki Baten (45%), Kisan Vani (25%), Gram Jagat (40%) and Krishi Samriddhi (35%). Approximately 20% of respondents did not listening agricultural radio broadcasts.