Research in Cultivation of Farmer’s Information Literacy in Information Age

Abstract

Information literacy of farmers is especially significant for the growth of farmer, increasing farmers' income, promoting efficiency of agriculture and rural development. But current farmer's information literacy is apparently incompatible with the demand for them in information age. Therefore, this paper puts forward several suggestions in the aspect of strengthening rural information publicity and stimulating farmers' awareness for information; constructing farmers' educational platform, enriching informational knowledge, to enhance the information ability of farmers; construction of agriculture information dissemination platform, enriching the source of rural information; strengthening the legal and moral education, improving farmers' information ethics literacy; cultivating ``local information capable person{''}, to led an overall growth of farmers.