Attitudes of Arable Crop Farmers towards the Use of Information Communication Technologies in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Akinnagbe Oluwole Matthew and Oladipupo Gbemisola Temitayo

 

Full Length Research Paper  I Published December, 2018

 

Journal of Agricultural Science and Food Technology  Vol. 4 (9), pp.182-189.

 

ABSTRACT

The study was undertaken to ascertain Attitudes of Arable Crop Farmers towards the Use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Multi stage sampling procedure was used to select one hundred and twenty respondents. Data were collected through the use of structure interview schedule. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage and mean statistic. Results of the study showed that majority (70.8%) of the respondents were male and married (53.3%). The mean age of the farmers was 48.5 year. About 57% of the respondents used hired labour as source of farm labour. Majority (82.5%) of the arable crop farmers have favourable attitude towards and they believe that ICTs can provide solutions to the present-day agricultural situation in agricultural information dissemination (x=4.30). The major ICTs the farmers had access to were radio (85.0%), mobile phone (77.5%) and television (70.8%). The study recommends that government should ensure that farmers should have access to and use ICTs by putting in place policies to ensure all rural area have regularly access to ICTs tools and other infrastructures like electricity that will work with ICT facilities.

Key Words: Access, Usage, ICTs and Agriculture.

 

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