Mobile Use Pattern of Agri-Graduates Bhavani Gottemukkula1,*, Naik V. Ravinder2, Sreenivasulu M.3, Sai P. Akshith4, Babu K. Madhu5 1Ph. D. Scholar, Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India 2Associate Professor, Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India 3Professor, Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India 4Post Graduate Student, Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India 5Professor and Head, Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India *Corresponding author email id: bhavanig0712@gmail.com
Online published on 30 January, 2020. Abstract Mobile phones play vital role in every one's life and students are not exceptional to it, as it is the most significant part of their life indeed. Now a days it has become a part and parcel and an important accessory across all the streams of students viz., Engineering, medical, agriculture etc., Younger generations are most attracted with the mobile phone and hence increased use may result in dependence. A study was carried out to understand the mobile use pattern of Agri graduates amongst the 100 Agri-graduates. This study revealed that, majority of the students (71%) using mobile handsets from 5 years, while Redmi, Samsung, Mi, Nokia, honor, One Plus, iPhone, vivo and Lenovo are the most preferred brands. Jio network is the mostly used (71%) network service provider preferred by the respondents. About, 90 per cent of the students possessed their phones from their parents while only a meagre (2%) section of the students got it from their friends as a gift. This study has indicated that, more than half of the students (52%) spent about, Rs.15200–23901 for mobile purchasing while only very few (2%) students spent about Rs.41, 303 to Rs.50, 000 for same. About 52 per cent of the students spent more than an hour time on the internet. Around, 66 per cent of the student's expressed that, browsing of useful information at any time possible is the reason for the mobile phones at their own convenience. About 59 per cent of them has never used their phones to generate self-employment. The usage of mobile phones will have an impact in the student's learning when used in a constructive way, but the excessive use of mobile phones should not lead to no kind of dependency of students on their phones. Hence, some interventions are required to motivate the youth against it. Top Keywords Agri-graduates, Mobile phone usage, Time spent on mobile phones, Use of mobile, Service providers. Top |