Transfer of Technology through Community Radio

Majority of Indian population is dependent on Agriculture as a main occupation. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of humancivilization, with the husbandry of domesticatedanimals and plants (i.e. crops) creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more densely populated and stratified societies. Agriculture has played a key role in the development of human civilization. There is no doubt that modern farm technologies evolved by systematic research, has tremendously helped the farmers to increase farm product, yet it is also true that big, educated and cosmopolite farmers were able to get the maximum benefits of new technology. In India majority of the farmers are small and marginal. They are poor, illiterate and have no or little access to the source of information. In order to upliftment of the poor farmers technology dissemination is necessary. New ICT technologies, such as e-agriculture, whereby agricultural information can be presented in multimedia formats to improve knowledge sharing in local cultural context, should be promoted” Farmers commission recommended “the Government to review its policy towards Community Radio, since a combination of the Internet and cell phone and community radio will help to take timely information to farmers even in the remotest parts of the country and judiciously harness ‘ air waves or frequencies which are public property.’ It suggests that the extension and provision of community radio licenses should be streamlined and operationalised so as to reach the target community in the shortest period. Various previous researches have confirmed that community radio is a scientific information communication tool for dissemination of the technology among the large segment of the rural people.