Farmers’ Perception towards a Ragi Expert System

A total of 46 statements, that determine the perception of Ragi Expert System, were spread  among three main components viz., over all perception, message and technical components. Responses  were obtained through structured interview schedule from a sample of 120 respondents who were  selected from ten villages of Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu. The usefulness, merits and difficulties  that they perceived in deriving information and diagnosis symptoms and knowledge gained on remedial  measures through expert system were tabulated. Though expert system is powerful to motivate the  people, still some more pictorial representation, easy navigation, concurrent information simple and  understandable language should be incorporated to reach the farmers on a large scale.