E-agriculture, i.e., Information and communication
technology (ICT) in agriculture enriches the agriculture and
brings rural development. Due to this upbringing of information
and communication technology, agricultural production has
increased and also enhancing the market which indicates a
complete change of makeover. Indian farming is revolutionized
and all farmers including small landholders are benefited
through the use of ICT in agriculture. ICT helps a lot to increase
the demand for new perspectives in agricultural field. The
present study was basically conducted in Jorhat district of Assam
during the time of 2018 and data was collected from 40 farmers
through a well structured questionnaire. The main mathematical
or statistical tools that have been used in this study are
percentages, Likert Scale and measurement of central tendency.
The present study tries to analyse the socio-economic
characteristics of the farmers which consider or use the
information and communication technology in agriculture. This
study also focuses on the farmer’s attitude towards using ICT in
agriculture and also the frequency of using ICT in agriculture.
In this study, it is obtained that there are highest 37.50 percent of
farmers are small farmers with a land holding of 1-2 ha and
highest 40 percent of farmers have 16 to 20 years of farming
experience. From the analysis, it is also noticed that
majority(4.68) of farmers strongly agree with the statement that
ICT helps in community based planning by providing timely
information regarding agricultural field which is followed by the
concept of ICTs helpful for reducing the distance in Digital
Divide or Technological gap(4.63). With some statements the
farmers are strongly disagree or disagree such as ICT helps to
exchange the opinion, knowledge, experience and also the
assets(2.94) and by improving rural livelihoods ICT fill up the
social segregation gap(2.15). Again it is observed that to gaining
knowledge and information all 40 farmers are using mobile
phones as ICT very frequently.