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The field survey and study was undertaken for 22 ICT initiatives in
agriculture and allied sector in India, mainly conducted in 48 villages of
11 states in 4 geographic regions from May 2009 to October 2010.
The study includes 1141 farmers out of which 590 were beneficiary
farmers and 551 were non – beneficiary farmers. Beneficiary farmers
were chosen from ICT utilisers in agriculture and were age matched.
In order to cover all the dimensions of agriculture sector and its sensitive
issues and orientation for different technology, a total of 159 parameters
were considered, which includes socio – economic, farming priority,
sources of information, information need, adoption level, technological
orientation, perception of ICT in agriculture and Impact analysis
According to land size, all the farmers were categorized. 62% of the total
farmers surveyed were marginal farmers with less than 2.5 hectare of
land. 22.5 % were small farmers (2.5 – 5) hectare land, 9% were medium
farmers (5 – 10) hectare land and only 6.5% were large farmers having
more than 10 hectare of land. Most of the marginal farmers interviewed
were from the west zone, whereas most of surveyed large farmers were
from South zone.
Almost 50% of the surveyed farmers are willing to Pay. The willingness
to pay depends mainly on the quality of Information services and the
monopoly of ICT initiator. It also depends upon political scenario in the
state and type of crops for which the information is required.