The study was carried to determine the knowledge of ICT based research life cycle among the research faculties of CCS Haryana

Agricultural University, Hisar in 2023. All the colleges of university were selected for collection of data. Data were collected personally from 120 research faculties selected by simple random sampling technique through a structured questionnaire and analyzed with the help of appropriate statistical tools by using 26 version Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). A set of 9 independent, 3 communication and 3 dependent variables were selected for the study. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the respondents were male having age between 37-47 years with PhD with NET having service experience of 6-10 years belonged to nuclear type of family and had medium family educational status. They had annual income in between ` 8 lakhs to ` 14 lakhs and in service and family income was in between ` 15 lakhs to 25 lakhs. It was noted that regarding the knowledge of ICT based on research life-cycle, majority of the respondents had knowledge about remote sensor, coding, presentation, audio/ video interaction.

Highlights

• Everyday work of researcher involves writing proposal, developing model and experiments and collecting data, analysis of data, collaborating with people, surveying literature, reviewing data, writing articles.
• ICT plays a crucial role in research life cycle, enabling researchers to efficiently conduct their work, collaborate with others and disseminate their findings.
• Remote sensing data, geophysical survey and solute transport modelling are the most used tools and techniques in the detection and mapping of soil salinity.