Profile of Farmers Using MMS Network for Dissemination of Technologies in Bangalore Rural District

摘要

Mobile phones are tools that can help farmers to climb out of poverty. The mobile phone technology is being used creatively in poor countries to help spur development and reduce poverty, particularly in remote rural areas. A research study was undertaken to know the Profile of Farmers using MMS for Dissemination of Technologies. The study was conducted at Doddaballapur taluk of Bangalore Rural District ofKarnataka during 2010-11. The respondents were 40 farmers selected using simple random technique.Findings reported that forty per cent of farmers had favourable attitude towards MMS network. Education, Farm size, Material possession, Economic motivation, Innovative proneness, Achievement motivation, Cosmopoliteness, Mass media participation and Extension participation had positive and significan t relationship with attitude of farmers at one per cent level of significance. Whereas, cropping intensity, Irrigation intensity, Decision making ability and Social participation had positive and significant relationship with attitude of farmers at five per cent level of significance. As far as age was concerned, it was found that negative and significant relationship with attitude offarmers at five per cent level of significance. Other variables such asfarming experience, occupation, family size and annual income were found to have non significant relationship with attitude of the farmers and eighteen variables fitted together in the regression model explained 84.00 per cent of the variation in the attitude of farmers about MMS network.