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ICTs for Agricultural Extension in India: Policy Implications for Developing Countries

ICTs are changing all the spheres of human lives. Hence, it is a popular belief that, agricultural extension also no exception to this. It is also expected that the ICT led extension systems are going to act as a key agent for changing agrarian situation and farmers’ lives by improving access to information and sharing knowledge. Hence, renewed enthusiasm to use new ICTs for agricultural advisory services led to mushrooming of e-initiative pilots in India. Development practitioners are experimenting innovative ICT initiatives exclusively for agricultural information and knowledge delivery.

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