Agricultural workers’ perception of information and communication technology usage for agricultural development in Southwest Nigeria

Lawal-Adebowale, Okanlade Adesokan; Akeredolu-Ale, BI

doi:10.4314/jsda.v25i2.65060

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“…Smallholder farmers in Africa produce the majority of food consumed. For many of these smallholder farmers, m-Agri services could revolutionise their access to information and extension services, and, ultimately, improve their livelihoods [86]. Currently, these smallholder farmers are not always best served by the m-Agri services available and this should be improved.…”

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The Revolution of Mobile Phone-Enabled Services for Agricultural Development (m-Agri Services) in Africa: The Challenges for Sustainability

2020

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The provision of information through mobile phone-enabled agricultural information services (m-Agri services) has the potential to revolutionise agriculture and significantly improve smallholder farmers’ livelihoods in Africa. Globally, the benefits of m-Agri services include facilitating farmers’ access to financial services and sourcing agricultural information about input use, practices, and market prices. There are very few published literature sources that focus on the potential benefits of m-Agri services in Africa and none of which explore their sustainability. This study, therefore, explores the evolution, provision, and sustainability of these m-Agri services in Africa. An overview of the current landscape of m-Agri services in Africa is provided and this illustrates how varied these services are in design, content, and quality. Key findings from the exploratory literature review reveal that services are highly likely to fail to achieve their intended purpose or be abandoned when implementers ignore the literacy, skills, culture, and demands of the target users. This study recommends that, to enhance the sustainability of m-Agri services, the implementers need to design the services with the users involved, carefully analyse, and understand the target environment, and design for scale and a long-term purpose. While privacy and security of users need to be ensured, the reuse or improvement of existing initiatives should be explored, and projects need to be data-driven and maintained as open source. Thus, the study concludes that policymakers can support the long-term benefit of m-Agri services by ensuring favourable policies for both users and implementers.

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confidence: 99%

The Revolution of Mobile Phone-Enabled Services for Agricultural Development (m-Agri Services) in Africa: The Challenges for Sustainability

2020

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“…The study was conducted in the southwest farming zone of Nigeria comprising the Delta, Edo, Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, and Lagos States. (Idowu, 1988;Adedipe, 1994;Idachaba, 1997;Lawal-Adebowale, 2009), with a view to responsively satisfy the farmers production needs and the farming conditions of the southwest farming zone of the country.…”

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Essentialities of Digital Technology Incorporation in Research Tasks by Agro-Researchers in the Southwest Nigerian Farming Zone

Lawal-Adebowale

2017

International Journal of ICT Research in Africa and the Middle East

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The study examined the incorporation of digital technologies in the Nigerian agricultural research system and showed that digital technologies such as digital balance, digital pH meter, phone sensors, and the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Geographic Information System (GIS), among others, had a high rate of incorporation in agro-research activities in the southwest farming zone of Nigeria. Determinants of such incorporation in agro-research activities were accuracy of data collection, enhancement of research task execution, improvement of research quality, usage convenience and portability of the devices, convenience of usage for data storage, and ease of data retrieval. The Spearman rho correlation test showed a significant correlation between the use of digital oven and its ready availability/accessibility (r = 0.168); digital pH meter and convenient of data storage on the device (r = 0.157); Spectrophotometer and convenient of data storage (r = -0.161); phone sensors and ready availability/accessibility of the device (r = 0.156); use of GPS/GIS and convenience of usage of the devices (r = -0.173) at p<0.05 level. It concluded that only a few of the digital technologies were readily incorporated in research activities by the Nigerian agro-researchers. It was also recommended that application of digital devices in agro-research activities should be intensified for agro-research development in the country.

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“…Ogbonna and Agwu (2013) researched on access and use of ICT by rural farmers; Cynthia and Nwabugwu (2016) examined the challenges to adoption of ICT tools by agricultural extension workers. Ajayi et al (2013) explored the knowledge and perception of extension agents on ICT use in extension service delivery, while Lawal-Adebowale and Akeredolu-Ale (2010) studied agricultural workers perception of ICT usage for agricultural development. Prior studies on use of ICTs concentrated more on either perception of extension practitioners or constraints to using these tools well in extension organizations that are public-based and how they use these technologies in their extension service delivery.…”

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Extension Practitioners Perception and Constraints on ICT Use in Southwestern Nigeria

Taofeeq,

Ayotunde Olayinka,

Kayode Samuel

2023

SAGE Open

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The study examined the perception and constraints of extension practitioners on utilization of communication technologies in southwestern Nigeria. This was necessitated by the need to ensure a practicable, vibrant, and efficient extension service delivery in the study area. 124 public and 41 non-public extension practitioners were selected through a three staged sampling procedure. Questionnaires were used to elicit vital information on their perceptions on ICT use, constraints faced during ICT use and other components. These were analyzed using descriptive statistics, mean difference, PPMC, and independent sample t-test. The results showed that (61.0%) of respondents from non-public organizations fell within those with favorable perception level. Also, (64.50%) of respondents had high level of constraints to ICT access. Moreover, (58.10%) of respondents from the public organizations’ encountered high level of constraint to ICT use. Result showed that respondents from the public extension organizations were more constrained in access to (14.10 ± 3.17) and use of ICT tools (10.84 ± 3.30) and were significant. The study has implications for providing functional ICT tools to the respondents for effective extension delivery. Agricultural extension service organizations should organize more frequent in-house trainings on the benefits of ICT use in relation to their extension work.

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Agricultural workers’ perception of information and communication technology usage for agricultural development in Southwest Nigeria

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The Revolution of Mobile Phone-Enabled Services for Agricultural Development (m-Agri Services) in Africa: The Challenges for Sustainability

The Revolution of Mobile Phone-Enabled Services for Agricultural Development (m-Agri Services) in Africa: The Challenges for Sustainability

Essentialities of Digital Technology Incorporation in Research Tasks by Agro-Researchers in the Southwest Nigerian Farming Zone

Extension Practitioners Perception and Constraints on ICT Use in Southwestern Nigeria

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