An Integrated Conceptual Framework for ICT-based Market Information Source Adoption among Smallholder Farmers

Nwafor, Christopher Ugochukwu

doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0163.v1

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“…Waqas et al (2015) further acknowledged that different socio-economic factors among farmers influenced the information sources used. Among extension personnel studied by Ochei-Idiake et al (2016), key personal features were found to influence their information-seeking behaviour; while Nwafor (2020) averred that the personal characteristics of farmers accounted for many of their ICT-source adoption attributes. Different methods used to search for information are influenced by diverse factors (Azadeh and Ghasemi, 2015), and therefore different variables affect information seeking in different ways.…”

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Marketing Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Smallholder Livestock Farmers in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Nwafor¹,

Ogundeji²,

Westhuizen³

2020

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This study examined marketing information needs and seeking behaviour among smallholder livestock farmers from the Eastern Cape province in South Africa. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from 150 livestock farmers and analysed using percentages, weighted means for ranking and correlation. The results show a dominance of market price information requirement among farmers (65%), immediate market price information need (38%), high level of need (48%), and a strong reliance on sources such as other farmers (36%), phone calls (24%) and auctions (23%) for market information. In addition to this, the listed demographic characteristics of farmers namely age, sex, education, marital status, household size, income and herd size strongly influenced their information seeking behaviour (p<0.05). Provision of additional sources of market price information, and ensuring that the personal features of farmers are taken into consideration when designing information service interventions is crucial. Keywords: behaviour, information need, information-seeking, livestock farmer, smallholder

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Section: Factors Influencing Information-seeking Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 97%

Marketing Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Smallholder Livestock Farmers in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Nwafor¹,

Ogundeji²,

Westhuizen³

2020

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Digital Economy: ICT Framework for Farming Information Dissemination and Management in DRC By IJISRT

Kamba Kabangu,

Otshakoto,

Junior

et al. 2024

International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Techno

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The agricultural sector is increasingly becoming both knowledge-intensive and techno-intensive. Generally speaking, agriculture sector is dynamic, farmers actively seek timely, accurate and relevant information to keep up with daily challenges. These challenges will significantly grow as a result of climate change that causes changing rainfall patterns and extreme weather events including, more frequent droughts and floods. ICTs has been instrumental for information broadcasting to farmers. Policy makers, extension practitioners, scholars and development agencies including, NGOs are advocating ICTs as a tool to foster smallholder farmers productivity, efficiency and performance through information including, new variety of seeds, fertilizer, livestock breeds, emerging diseases, vaccines, farming technologies, use of pesticides as well as market information. In addition, they enable large hub of know-how and sharing opportunity between agriculturalists, investors and entrepreneurs. Most African countries are essentially agrarian economies and agriculture turns out to be livelihoods of hundreds of millions households as well as a key driver of the economic development. However, most farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo – especially smallholder farmers – perform below their potential. Many governments and scholars have developed innovative solutions related agricultural practice. The challenge is to enable information dissemination by large numbers of smallholder farmers. The study aims to propose a framework and policies for farmers to share information through ICTs. It used both quantitative and qualitative methods. The case study design is applied where empirical data was collected using questionnaires, interviews, documents analysis, and group discussions with farmer groups. Based on the research objectives, it was discovered that ICT policies is quasi-inexistent in agricultural sector. The government provides no agricultural information to farmers. In terms of ICT access, 36% of farmers own a telephone. 58% use basic feature phone while 42% of the respondents use smartphone. 66% of farmers would like to be provided information by a mobile phone. 63 % of farmers would prefer to have information in video format while 34 % in audio format. 95% of respondent strongly agree that ICT can improve their farming condition.

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E-Agriculture Framework to Improve Agricultural Productivity: Literature Review

Awuor¹,

Ireri²

2022

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The agricultural sector is increasingly becoming knowledge-intensive as farm automation is significantly improving the productivity of these farms. Hightech developments in agriculture offer vast possibilities for entrepreneurs, agriculturalists, and investors to ameliorate the productivity and efficiency of agriculture at a time when several issues, such as drought, emerging diseases, fertilizer dependency, and global warming, are threatening food security. While there have been significant innovations and increased adoption of ICTs in agriculture, it is arguable that this has not been reflected in agricultural productivity as much. In improving agricultural output, farmers need access to timely, accurate, relevant, and consumable information in relation to their farming activities. In this regard, this paper seeks to identify and demonstrate the role of digital applications in improving agricultural productivity and output, and to review the E-agriculture frameworks supporting the design and development of these digital solutions for improving agricultural productivity.

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An Integrated Conceptual Framework for ICT-based Market Information Source Adoption among Smallholder Farmers

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Marketing Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Smallholder Livestock Farmers in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Marketing Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Smallholder Livestock Farmers in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Digital Economy: ICT Framework for Farming Information Dissemination and Management in DRC By IJISRT

E-Agriculture Framework to Improve Agricultural Productivity: Literature Review

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