The current study
aimed to provide comparative analysis between Pakistan and China regarding
factors inhabiting ICTs usage by farmers. Population of this study contained
two categories. Firstly, the population was comprised of PunjabprovinceofPakistanselected purposively. Secondly,
population comprises ofHebeiprovinceofChinaselected purposively as the study
province. For this purpose 160 respondents were selected from eight villages of
Punjab province inPakistanand 122 respondents were selected from six villages ofHebeiprovince inChina.
The results revealed that there is significant influence of socio-economic
characteristics like age, education, and income and sources of farmers inPakistanwith compare toChina. In case of Pakistan
information and communication technologies used by farming community are in the
form of telephone (6.25%), mobile (100%), computer (38.12%), internet (11.88%),
TV (80.63%), radio (10.63%) and newspaper (7.5%) while in case of China rural
farmers are using telephone (18.03%), mobile (99.18%), computer (29.51%),
internet (17.21%), TV (99.18%), radio (9.02%) and newspaper (3.28%) of farmers
have no opinion. Keeping in view the results the government ofPakistanshould
concentrate on efficient use of computer and internet. Similarly, government ofChinashould also concentrate on best use of computer and internet towards adoption
of advanced technologies.