INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPOWERING WOMEN FARMERS

Our major sources of information in the past decades were print media, radio and TV, but as a result of the telecommunications revolution, the information and technology has reached to the households at village level. Information and technology has evolved through the years' hard work, which has important effect on modernsocieties. Technical progress at the global level has exalted human life to act at its highest level of flexibility and speed. Male and female farmers are generally curious to know their crop management and livestock management, but the lack of extension workers & due to their negligence of duty, the information does not reach farmers' at right time and untimely rain and climate change result in the event of yield loss or crop losses. The Government of India in 2009, started farmer portal to spread agricultural information and technology to ensure access. In the same sequence, through the Krishi Vigyan Kendras, the 'early message service' for farmers' in Hindi by the mobile on Agriculture, Home Science and other important information was made available for farmers, women farmers over time began immediately. In survey, 5% male farmers' and 15% female farmers participants reported to have no benefit from this scheme. It was noted that the 25-40 year old male farmers (95%) and women farmers (85%) were found to agree to get benefit from the scheme. The sequence of the various villages in the districts of Gwalior and Datia, 25 male farmers and 25 women farmers' in the survey found that 90% of the participants (male farmers) and 83% (women farmers) participants agreed with the quality of the message. 85% (male farmers) and 70% (women farmers) of the participants agreed with the statement that the information in their daily lives through mobile provides ease of doing things in their daily life.