• Dr.S.Karthikeyan

India is a developing nation among world nations in which web based infrastructure and its various benefits were enjoyed only the urban and semi urban masses. Whereas the rural masses lacks behind these technological improvements as we all know “India lives in Villages”. 70% of the India’s population resides in villages and there is a serious need for IT based and web based development in rural India, so as to bridge the digital divide. To bridge the existing divide , Information Technology (IT) and various programs of Information Communication Technology (ICT) plays an vital role in building the gap made by the digital divide made due to un equality developments of Urban and Rural India and eventually set of poverty alleviation to a greater extent as rural India is concerned. Rural development can be achieved by improving various facilities of Information Communication Technology (ICT). By means of Awareness and usage of Various ICT programs among the rural masses leads to fruitful results that is raise in social and economic wellbeing and livelihood. Improved agricultural practices with high productivity ,profitability and marketing of agricultural outputs by means of usage of new advanced technology and ICT enabled tools is said by E-agriculture. There Awareness of E-agriculture among the rural masses is first important criteria so as to practice various E-Agriculture techniques in rural India. FAO proposes the following definition: “e-Agriculture is an emerging field in the intersection of agricultural informatics, Agricultural development and entrepreneurship, referring to agricultural services, technology dissemination, and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies. More specifically, it involves the conceptualization, design, development, evaluation and application of new (innovative) ways to use existing or emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs)”.

E- Agriculture

"A STUDY ON PERCEPTION OF E-AGRICULTURE APPS AMONG SMALL FARMERS IN COIMBATORE CITY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.172-176, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812023.pdf

"A STUDY ON PERCEPTION OF E-AGRICULTURE APPS AMONG SMALL FARMERS IN COIMBATORE CITY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp172-176, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812023.pdf