Abstract:
Farmers invest much money for their cultivations
but they failed recover their cost due to not having
latest agricultural information. Mobile applications are
maintained by local agencies to enhance information
richness of farmers. However, the farmers do not use
those applications. Therefore, the objective of this study
was to investigate the factors affecting for the usage of
mobile applications among farmers in agriculture in
Bulathsinhala area. The administrative questionnaire
was developed getting help from previous studies and
data were collected from 100 respondents who had
smart phones using purposive sampling technique. The
respondents were farmers who engaged with Land, Mud
and Animal farming. The results revealed that Education
and Knowledge, Social & Family Factors and Economic
Condition had a significance relationship with usage of
mobile application. According to Pearson correlation,
Facilitating Conditions is also statistically significant to
use mobile application by farmers but using regression
rejects it. Famers must be educated to use agricultural
applications, as well as agricultural societies must share
the cost of those applications.
