Agribusiness is one of the primary source of income throughout the world. In fact, we all depend on agriculture directly or indirectly. Communication and Information matters a lot in the development of any field, In agriculture also right Information at the right time matters a lot to the farmers. Modern ICT tools have fulfilled this dream. Smartphone is one of the most popular modern ICT tool that is playing a strategic role in the development of modern farmer. Smartphone and its applications has come with great innovations. Several mobile applications have been developed by government, private companies and non government organization to help farmers to reduce stress, acquire relevant information on good agriculture practices, weather, quality input, markets tendency, etc. This study focuses on how techie our Indian farmers are, and how mobile apps are helping them in easing their daily farm related tasks and increasing their income.

Mobile apps , Modern ICT , Digital agriculture

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