S. KUMAR1
1=Sukanto Kumar, Assistant Teacher, 19 No. Sonatonpur Govt. Primary School, Harinakundu, Jhenaidah, Bangladesh. E-mail: shrutydebnath@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The study has been conducted at Harinakundu Upazilla under Jhenaidah District of Bangladesh during September to December 2017. Fourteen (14) Villages of four unions out of 8 unions in this upazilla were selected randomly for this study. The villages are Shakharadah, Kapashatia, Valki, Chandpur, Kismotpur, Mandartola, Sonatonpur, Varakhali, Dakholpur, Falshi, Harishpur, Kalishankorpur, Ghoragacha, Talbaria. Acknowledging the importance of ICT in Agricultural sectors, Govt. has launched different ICT portals in order to make a digital Bangladesh and open market economy or globalization. The main function of these portals is to give update information about the information of weather, price, production and cultivation techniques, plant, nutrients and water usage, health information for their livestock, Govt. and Non-govt. facilities, diseases and infect information for the farmers so that they do not become hampered. But most of the farmers of these 14 villages of Harinakundu opine of having no idea about these portals and still now they do not get updated agricultural information through these portals. This analytical study depicts the contemporaneous miseries of these farmers.
Keywords: Web portals, E-Agriculture, ICT flaws and Empowering farmers.