STUDY ON MOBILE PHONE UTILIZATION PATTERN OF POST GRADUATE AGRICULTURE STUDENTS IN CHHATTISGARH, INDIA
Priyanka Chandrakar, M. L. Sharma, Muzammal Ahmad Khan, Piyush Pandey, Indira Gandhi, Krishi Vishwa · 2015
The present investigation was carried out in Indira Gandhi Agriculture University, Raipur (Chhattisgarh), India with its specific objective to find out the extent of mobile phone and ICT tools utilization by the post graduate students of the university. There were around 380 students studied in post graduate courses under the faculty of Agriculture and Agriculture Engineering during the academic session of 2013-1014. Out of them 50% students were selected randomly for this study. The findings of this study revealed that maximum number of students were high extent of utilization of mobile. Majority (94.74%) of the students were using mobile phones for getting contacts with friends, batch mates and colleagues, as compared to 88.94 per cent students using mobile phone for contact with parents. Majority (57.36%) of students used internet on mobile phone for downloading songs and videos or ring tones, followed by 51.57 per cent used it for social media like facebook and whatsapp etc. 70.53 per cent students had higher extent of utilization of mobile phones.