Digital competency among Farmers of southern Gangetic plains in Bihar A gender perspective study

Abstract

Agriculture is a gigantic sector of the Indian economy as it contributes about 17 per cent to the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides employment to over 60 per cent of the population. In spite of a large Indian economy, agriculture is lagging behind many are aspects and characterize by low degree of market integration and connectivity, low accessibility of reliable and timely information to the farmers, small land holdings, non-adoption or less adoption of improved technology and so on. Competency is defined as the ability to perform specific tasks. They are the underlying knowledge, skills, abilities, personality traits and know- how that results in effective task fulfilment. newline