Henan Farmers’ Internet Use Survey Research

The Internet is the most important part of the construction of rural informatization,The Internet hasincomparable advantage that compared with traditional media:a large amount of information, informationcoverage, high transmission speed and so on.As new media of the mobile phone, is pursueding by audiencebecause of itsown characteristics and terminal characteristic.Farmer is vulnerable groups in society,they areeasy to accepting mobile phone internet because of funding, time, culture level.The Internet and mobileInternet is playing an increasingly important role in narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas in thedigital divide.The development and popularization of information technology are the main factors thatinfluence the digital divide, but it is not the only factor,Integration of economic development, peasantideology, government guidance and other factors determine the new gap.According to the degree of economic development for the450farmers in three regions of HenanProvince, Zhengzhou city standard, Jiaozuo City, Xinyang city as the research object,throughquestionnaires, interviews, observation and other side of empirical study, investigate of Henan province therapid development of the Internet, the use of the Internet application status of farmers, farmers’ mobilephone Internet and cognition on the Internet.The article collect450questionnaires and discuss the farmeruse of the Internet in the three representative areas of Henan province through date and charts.In the latterpart of the analysis,this paper discusses three aspects:Internet infrastructure,the impact of the Internet onthe production and life of farmers,the relationship between farmers’ consciousness and the Internet,finally,extending to the the digital divide between the development of the Internet and Henan country.The digitaldivide of the three regions in Henan has large relations of the region’s economic development level andawareness of farmers, and farmers’ basic individual qualities,the differences between digital divide among regions will be relatively large in the early development of Henan rural informatization,and when theInternet and mobile Internet development is mature, the differences will be gradually reduced.