Internet and Farmers
Berman (2008) showed that new ICT methods had played a crucial role in the development of emerging
countries. In this regard India and Sri Lanka have made significant developments in ICTs use in remote areas. In
the context of India the Proletarian Organization funded by government and United Nations Agencies have
started participatory, bottom-up approach to enhance its development projects in remote areas and implemented
Virtual Knowledge Centres (VKCs) equipped with computers, internet access, and communication systems for
farmers including the use of loudspeaker systems. These centres of the internet have played a vital role in the
capacity building of farmers in their development. Furthermore, internet increased many opportunities for
community. By using the internet farmers were getting the information about their production from different
markets of their near cities as well as big markets of the country. Similarly obtain the information about
agriculture new techniques and methods for increase their product. Internet has created a room for farmers to get
latest information on market.
Farmers mostly were using Internet and their emails for communicating with their family and friends in
other places of the country. This internet was famous among the farmers in India. Nowadays farmers are using
different websites for getting the information about proper use of pesticides in their farms (Joshi & Ayyangar,
2010).The Korean agriculture forestry fisheries information service (AFFIS) was also played a very important
role in provide information to fishermen and farmers. The education management system was established in
2002 in which the main function of this department was to provide online and off-line learning programmes and
educational information services to the fishermen and farmers. The fishermen and farmers were provided few
opportunities to learn through the internet service. It manages educational contents and has lot of information
about agriculture and fisheries. By using the Internet farmers improved their skills and achieved lot of
information and using of new technologies in agriculture sector.
Mori & Assumpção ( 2007) indicated that community Internet access centres provided good opportunities
to people. This approach could focuses on the major number of decentralized initiatives where in different rural
areas the farmers are getting benefits. This was proved the successful local government initiatives and
international experiences served as examples and encouragement for the dissemination of internet centres
throughout the country. It could not denied that the federal government with the help of local governments and
civil society organization were provided digital revolutions and good opportunities in rural areas such
technologies not only given the advantage to the farmers and fishermen community as well as to other public.
According to Sein & Furuholt (2009) the internet could also investigate in discovering the role of the
intermediary. In the DNet project Bangladesh, the community could not use internet directly but the operators
helped them to find out their requirements. Farmers use mobile phones to communicate questions by the users
to the Pallitathya Kendra Rural Information Centre. (KRIC) meanwhile the operators access the internet and