How ICTs can play a key role to provide extension services in agriculture??
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Icts play important role in spreading information regardingemerging new technologies to solve the problems in agriculture
In the days ahead, the use of ICT is going to increase further.
Through the tools of ICT one can reach to the farmers in remote areas in shortest possible time.
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It plays an effective role to bridge the extension gap in yield. It is more cost effective and efficient means of ToT. One can reach to large mass within shorter time.
Agricultural Extension is essentially a means of information, a stimulator of innovation and a facilitator of economic development of smallholders, who exists in disperse settlements. The best tool of an extensionist is the ICTs it makes his work easier, reach wider audience and provide an open channel of information flow. The social media anchored by ICTs is now revolutionizing extension as it enables real time advisory services and can also be used as an innovation plarforms.
Use of ICTs in agricultural extension can be helpful to farmers to access from the sources and spread Early Warning information and appropriately responds to and in areas of market prices and marketing of agric produce with good profit margins and markets dynamics.
Extension has been battling with the issues of low extension agent to farmer ratio and inability to reach farmers when they need them most. With ICTs these challenges are brought to barest minimum because teachings and learning can be done real time including practical demonstrations and a large number of people can be reached at the same time
The use of ICT is essential for new rural extension instruments and training in this area, especially related semi-presential courses and the establishment of learning networks.
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