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Enhancement of Usability for Farmers:
User Interface for Rural Community
Muhammad Faraz Khokhar, Hassan Ejaz, Tayyab Asif Butt, Shahzaib Iftikhar,
Umar Muzaffer, Abbas Ilyas, Faizan ul Mustafa,
Adeel Mushtaq, Usman Ahmad, and Usman Asghar
University of Gujrat, Pakistan
{10050656-021,10050656-091,10050656-115,10050656-068,
10050656-087,10050656-096}@uog.edu.pk,
faizan_ab@gmx.com, {ch.adeelmushtaq,
itprof.usman,usmanasghar.pk}@gmail.com
Abstract. This research covers how to empower or improve the role of technol-
ogy and bridge rural digital divide via ICT solutions in the agriculture sector of
rural belt of Pakistan and suggests some new ideas like interconnection of web
communities with e-boards and mobile phones for sake of giving access to all
latest agricultural updates and news. Farmers will be encouraged towards the
use of technology for their betterment, ease and efficient output in simple way
while using HCI techniques.
Keywords: Farmers, Rural area, Pakistan, E-board, Mobile Phones, linkage.
1 Introduction
World has become a global village, technology is spreading at great speed in the de-
veloping countries too and like other fields of life, its proliferation has also encour-
aged agriculture sector very efficiently. Importance of food growers cannot be ignore
[30][37][38] because according to a survey, roughly agriculture is accounted for be-
tween 38-45 % of world’s labor force whereas in the developing countries it is about
55% of the labor force in agriculture [12]. 45% of the population of Pakistan works in
agriculture field [35]. Pakistan cultivates about 25% of its land and agriculture is the
largest income and the employment-generating sector of Pakistan’s economy. Being a
dominant sector according to recent Pakistan economic survey 2012-13 it exhibited
growth of 3.3 percent in agriculture related sub-sectors also contributes 21.4% to the
gross domestic product (GDP) employs 45 percent of country’s labor force [35] and
also contributes in other growth of other domains in economy [10]. A lot of people
who are linked with this field but still they rely on face to face communication [37].
In section 2 background of research is discussed to explore, problem statement and
research question, than in section 3 research methodology along with proposed model,
finely conclusion.
The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum for this chapter can be
found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07635-5_71