ABSTRACT The dairy sector in India plays a pivotal role in upliftment of socio-economic and employment generation for rural households. India is the top milk producing nation in the world contributing about 15% to the global milk pool. In the ongoing decade (2000 onwards) the compound growth rate of milk production has been more than 3.5% per annum. The contribution of agriculture and allied sectors is about 14.20% of total GDP while livestock sector alone is contributing about 32% of agriculture. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the operational process, rural development, communication, just in time services plays the major roles in fulfilling the needs to achieve the productivity of their services and products. Hence, the only alternative to empower the villages is to use ICT tools to bridge the gaps in adoption of recommended new technologies. The ICTs include community radio and television, cellular-telephony, use of computing devices, digital imaging, the Internet and Wide Area Networking (WAN), Wi-Fi and Mixed Media. The use of ICT to contribute for sustainable growth in livestock production in India is not a matter of providing computers and Internet connectivity or computerization of livestock research and development institutions. Krishi Vigyan Kendra is very important base for transfer of technology from laboratory to farmers' field with respect to agricultural and allied subjects. The KVK model is aimed to provide timely and appropriate technical advice to the needed farmers on need basis. The modern information tools viz., mobile, lap-top and internet, agri-portal system through internet, market price information system through mobile phone are the key ICT based technologies delivered to the farmers and timely information/advices are communicating as per the need of the situation
