Poziom rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczego obszarów wiejskich a wykorzystanie technologii informacyjno-komunikacyjnych (TIK) w rolnictwie województwa mazowieckiego
Level of socio-economic development of rural areas and ICT usage in agriculture in the Mazowieckie voivodeship

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the relationship between the level of socio-economic development in rural areas of the Mazowieckie voivodeship and the degree of modern information-communication technologies in agriculture in these areas. The case study area was the Mazowieckie voivodeship, which is very diversified in both the level of rural area socio-economic development and the types of agriculture. Empirical data was obtained by a survey of over 1400 questionnaires. They were addressed to farmers from 20 selected communes, diversified by location in the voivodeship functional-spatial structure background and by the type of agriculture. This group of respondents revealed a rather low level of ICT application in agriculture. The results were analysed by regression analysis between the level of socio-economic development and indexes of the ICT application level in a given commune. The level of socio-economic development was measured by the Hellwig index of distance to theoretical exemplar of development. It takes into consideration three dimensions of development: economic, demographic-social and infrastructural. Characteristics of ICT application in agriculture were used to describe four categories: infrastructural equipment, frequency of ICT usage, scope of application of the Internet in household and for agricultural purposes. The results were verified by regression analysis, where the Hellwig index values for a given commune were the describing variables and the index of ICT application in agriculture was the described variable.

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