This research was conducted to determine rural farmers' access to agricultural information in ido local government area of Oyo state. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 120 respondents for the study. Primary data were collected using an interview schedule and were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results revealed that majority (70.0%) of the respondents were male, married (62.5%) and aspect of agriculture they engaged with was crop farming (83.3%). The most popular source of information among the respondents was radio (72.5%) and agricultural information they have access to were market information, storage information and fertilizer application. Chi-square results at 0.05 level of significance indicated that there was significant relationship between rural farmers' sex (X 2 = 8.265, p = 0.004), marital status (X 2 = 16.420, p = 0.003) and correlation analysis of the result revealed that there existed a correlation between income (r = 0.229, p = 0.012), sources of agricultural information (r = 0.582, p = 0.000) and access to agricultural information. Therefore, the research study recommended that rural farmers should be educated and public awareness of agricultural information should be emphasized and created by the information providers.
The study investigated benefited from the use of ICTs in Northeastern Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 230 respondents. Data for the study were collected using interview schedule and analysed with percentages, mean and weighted score and Chi-square and PPMC at α0.05. Results show that the available ICT tools to the respondents were radio (97.4%), mobile phone (92.6%) and television (88.3%). The most perceived benefits of ICTs were keeping in touch with friends with (158.8) and provision of information on weather, disease outbreak and new agricultural techniques (141.7). However, the majority (54.3%) of the respondents had low level of benefit of ICT use. Constraint encountered using ICTs were high cost of maintenance (126.5), high call tariff (126.4) and language barrier (124.8). Significant relationship existed between respondents' age (r=-0.61), sex (χ 2 =56.50) and benefits derived from the use of ICTs. Respondents' low level of benefit derived could be due to language barrier, high cost of tariff and maintenance. Developmental practitioners should continue the use of ICTs to propagate information to target audience while high priority should be given to local language when packaging such information.
Part of Nigerian government efforts toward food security and development of agriculture was the provision of an improved maize storage structures to farmers in all local government of the states. Despite this effort, most of the maize farmers in Ido local government area of Oyo state used different indigenous storage structures in stored their maize while some farmers often sell the larger proportion of their produce at harvest. In view of this situation, the research therefore investigated the assessment of use of maize storage structures among maize farmers in Ido local government area of Oyo state. A multistage sampling procedure was used in selecting 120 respondents and the data for this study were obtained through the use of interview schedule which were therefore subjected to analysis. Descriptive statistics and inferential tools were used in describing and making inferences. At p 0.05 level of significance there was correlation between age (r = 0.000), household size (r = 0.000), income (r = 0.000), constraints (r = 0.000), benefits (r = 0.000) and the used of maize storage structures. Chi-square analysis also revealed that level of education was significant to the use of maize storage structures (x 2 = 28.03, p = 0.000). The study then concluded that there was low use of maize storage structures due to high cost of an improved storage structure, high cost of used and high cost of storage chemicals. Based on these findings, the study recommended that maize farmers should pool their resources together in order for them to afford an expensive improved storage technologies and credit facilities should be made available to farmers by the government so as to overcome the challenges they are facing in storing maize produce.
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