REVIEW OF USABILITY AND DIGITAL DIVIDE FOR ICT IN AGRICULTURE.

Agriculture in the backbone of Indian economy and 70% of Indian population is mainly dependent on Agriculture for their livelihood. Since ages, lots of developments are going on in this field. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is a resource society which provides access and knowledge. ICT is a resource society which needs active participation along with literate participation of the user. The internet nowadays is of little use to people who are not able to make use of electronic access to digital data to improve their lives. In the past decade, farmers had access to various agricultural information provided by many information and communication technology (ICT) projects in Indian agriculture. Different services are provided by ICTs. ICTs have the potential to reach many farmers with timely ,useful and accessible content. But the content delivered has importance and relevance only if the information is content specific and localized. In India most of the population lives in rural areas and is dependent on agriculture for their living. But because of digital illiteracy, farmers are not aware of different data of agriculture available for them, in spite of numerous efforts taken by Government. The prime focus is on improving the usability of knowledge shared by different digital media. Hence minimization of digital divide in rural areas will take place. It will help to design and implement better service tools.