| dc.description.abstract | The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of use of cell phone by the farmers in
receiving agricultural information and to explore the relationships between the selected
characteristics of the farmers (age, literacy level, agricultural knowledge, farm size, annual
income, organizational participation, cosmo politeness, aspiration, self-confidence and attitude
towards technology) and their use of cell Phone. Data was obtained from 76 cell user farmers in
8 selected villages of Silam and Mogla Bazar union under Dakshin Surma upazila of Sylhet
district with the help of interview schedule. Appropriate scales were developed in order to
measure the concerned variables. Correlation test was used to ascertain the relationships between
the concerned dependent and independent variables of the study.
More than half (54 percent) of the farmers had medium use of cell phone in receiving
agricultural information from the Sub Assistant Agricultural Officer (SAAO) while 14 percent
and 32 percent of them had low and high use of cell phone, respectively. Literacy level, annual
income, cosmo politeness, agricultural knowledge, aspiration, self-confidence and attitude
towards technology of the farmers had significant positive relationship with their use of cell
phone. However, age of the respondents had negative significant relationship while farm size and
organizational participation of the farmers had no relationship with their use of cell phone. The
problems which were commonly faces by the farmers includes high call rate, lack of money,
high call rate for calling other operators, lack of adequate cell credit etc. | en_US |
