Study on the ICT Adoption for Agriculture by Farmers

The economic benefit of successful Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption is recognized there remains a considerable variation in adoption rates between countries, branches of agricultural production, perception of benefits, national ICT infrastructures for rural areas, costs and policies. A slow rate of adopting ICT for agriculture is a major concern of agricultural sectors in all countries. A series of studies evaluated ICT adoption constraints. Sonic recent efforts, summarized here, were a symposium and questionnaire carried out at the Montpellier. These collated comments and observations geared to serve "ICT in agriculture" professionals as a tool to calibrate their experience, evaluate their observations and tine-tune their future activities and decisions.