Extent use of mobile phone in agriculture

Information and communication technology is a new approach for development of agriculture through dissemination and obtain new technology and agriculture information, timely and in appropriate format to each and every farmer of country. Mobile phone is a tool of ICT with high potential of dissemination and acquisition of information. This study was conducted to assess the extent of use of mobile phone by farmers for their crop management, agriculture related queries and other agriculture advisory services. The results shows that 73.75 per cent respondents had medium use followed by high extent of use of mobile phone (22.50% respondents) and majority of respondents made use of mobile phone for gaining information about crop production practices with 51.81 MPS followed by contact with peoples (i.e.38.37MPS).