Information is the basic necessity of everyday life. This paper aims to study the information needs of the farmer to be made available through selected information technology enabled systems (ITES)namely web browsing, agricultural portals, agricultural expert systems, digitized databases and on line trading in agriculture and to study the level of satisfaction of farmers in meeting their information needs through these ITES. The study was conducted in the three districts of Kerala namely Thrissur, Malappuram and Idukki. A total of 300 computer literate farmers were the respondents of the study. The most information need of the farmer was found to be information on marketing scenario followed by plant protection and weather forecasts. Regarding the satisfaction level of farmers, the farmers were satisfied with information on crop production and moderately satisfied with rest of the information needs. Here it is recommended that efforts should be made to develop farmer centred ITES and update the same regularly so as to satisfy the information needs of the farmer.
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
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