TY - JOUR AU - P J, Boniface AU - A M, Jose AU - Husain, A. Sakeer PY - 2019/08/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Training Needs of Farmers and Agricultural Extensionists on Selected Information Technology Enabled Systems for Agriculture JF - Journal of Extension Education JA - JEE VL - 31 IS - 1 SE - Research Article DO - 10.26725/JEE.2019.1.31.6209-6215 UR - https://extensioneducation.org/index.php/jee/article/view/371 SP - AB - <p><em>The study analyses the training needs of farmers and agricultural extensionists of Kerala,</em><em>India on selected Information Technology Enabled Systems (ITES) such as web browsing, </em><em>agricultural </em><em>portals, agricultural expert systems, digitized databases and on line trading in agriculture. Computer </em><em>literate farmers and agricultural extensionists from the districts of Thrissur, Idukki and Malappuram of </em><em>Kerala consisting of 300 farmers and 120 agricultural extensionists were the respondents of the study. </em><em>Training on agricultural portals was identified as the highest training need among both farmers and </em><em>agricultural extensionists. The study points to the need of imparting IT oriented training to both farmers </em><em>and agricultural extensionists which would enable them to get right information at the right time for the </em><em>overall development of agriculture.</em></p> ER -