Assessing the information seeking behaviour and utilization of rice farmers in the Ejisu-Juaben municipality of Ashanti Region of Ghana

Acheampong, Lawrencia Donkor; Frimpong, Benedicta Nsiah; Adu-Appiah, Alexander; Asante, Bright Owusu; Asante, Maxwell Darko

doi:10.1186/s40066-017-0114-8

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“…Past experience may have taught the farmers to utilize the meteorological services. These findings confirms those of Thomas and Sanyaolu (2017), Acheampong et al (2017).…”

Section: Influence Of Socioeconomic Attributes On Utilization Of Agro-meteorological Servicessupporting

confidence: 90%

Delta Eyaleti, Nijerya'da Meteoroloji Hizmetlerine Erişim ve Kullanım Kısıtlamaları

Ofuoku

Obiazi

2021

Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Tarım Bilimleri Dergisi

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Climate change effect on agricultural productivity is very glaring. There is an advocacy for arable crops farmers to take advantage of the Nigeria meteorological services (NIMET) as part of adaptation strategies against climate change. Having an insight into the constraints to access and utilization agrometeorological services is worthwhile for agricultural extension programme planning. This study evaluated assessed the constraint to access and utilization of agro-meteorological service among arable crop farmers in Delta State Nigeria. The agro-meteorological services that were most made available to them ranged from daily weather forecast to seasonal weather condition. The farmers mostly accessed and utilized daily weather forecast, seasonal rainfall prediction, information on crop stages performance and general weather condition. However, untimely release and transmission of the needed information was the major constraint to utilization of agro-meteorological services. The farmers' socioeconomic attributes such as level of formal education, household size, farm size, extension contact and membership of farmers' association influenced the utilization of agro-meteorological services. It is concluded that the level of access to and utilization of agro-meteorological services is low as a result of the constraints experienced by the farmers. It was recommended that agrometeorological services information need to be disseminated timely and the information be simplified before dissemination to farmers.

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“…Past experience may have taught the farmers to utilize the meteorological services. These findings confirms those of Thomas and Sanyaolu (2017), Acheampong et al (2017).…”

Section: Influence Of Socioeconomic Attributes On Utilization Of Agro-meteorological Servicessupporting

confidence: 90%

Delta Eyaleti, Nijerya'da Meteoroloji Hizmetlerine Erişim ve Kullanım Kısıtlamaları

Ofuoku

Obiazi

2021

Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Tarım Bilimleri Dergisi

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“…Lack of information and understanding of crop nutrient requirements and appropriate application timings among farmers is another reason for the suboptimal use of fertilizers ( Emran et al, 2019 ; Jat et al, 2015 ; Mujeri et al, 2013 ). Besides incentives, farmers also need scientific information to change their fertilizer use and adopt agronomic practices that affect the nutrient recovery efficiency of cereal crops ( Acheampong et al, 2017 ; Ladha et al, 2020 ; Yang and Fang, 2015 ).…”

Section: Key Lessons On Nutrient Management and Fertilizer Use In Cermentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of balanced nutrient management innovations in South Asia: Perspectives from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

Kishore¹,

Alvi²,

Krupnik

2021

Global Food Security

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Imbalanced application of fertilizers is a major fiscal and environmental problem in South Asia. We review fertilizer policies and extension efforts to promote the balanced application of nutrients in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and draw 4 important lessons. (1) Fertilizer sector reforms need to be fiscally sustainable and politically feasible. Governments in South Asia have abolished fertilizer subsidies on multiple occasions, only to restore them a few years later. (2) The use of phosphate and potash did not decline much even after a sharp increase in their prices in India in 2011–12. Therefore, rationalizing subsidies, while necessary, may not be sufficient to ensure balanced use of fertilizers. Changing farmers' practice requires combining the right incentives with the right information. (3) Soil test based soil health cards (SHC) hold promise, but there is limited evidence on their utility. India's SHC program had very little impact on fertilizer use. (4) Direct cash transfer (DCT) of fertilizer subsidies can reduce distortions, but Sri Lanka's experience shows that implementing it is more challenging than universal subsidies. DCT requires the removal of price controls, integration of land records, farmer identity cards, a cash transfer system with universal coverage, and a competitive fertilizer retail sector.

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“…The subject of investigation for this study regarding information quality was on five attributes for convenience and clarity to the respondents. The attributes were operationalized as timeliness [the extent to which information is up to date and is accessible on time for its planned use], costeffectiveness [the degree to which information access is affordable by the user], usability [the ease of understanding information and thus being able to apply it], accuracy [the extent of user's perception of information as correct and reliable] and relevance [the level of match between supplied information and that which is required to make a decision] (Acheampong et al, 2017;Kumar & Jakhar, 2010;Ofuoku et al, 2008). The utilisation of information for the intended purpose is hampered if the source does not give credible and quality information.…”

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Effect of market information quality, sharing and utilisation on the innovation behaviour of smallholder pig producers

Mugonya

Kalule

Ndyomugyenyi

2021

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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Although pig farming can accelerate Uganda's economic development, the value chain is undeveloped with poorly organized informal markets. Buyers take advantage of farmers paying low prices, pointing to the poor quality of pigs and pork. Farmer innovation can remedy this situation by enabling farmers to reduce costs, improve pig productivity and quality of pigs and pork. Leveraging farmer innovation behaviour calls for appropriate agricultural information. However, the effect of market information quality, sharing, and utilization on the innovation behaviour of pig producing farmers is not fully known. This study sought to determine the effect of information quality, sharing, and utilisation on the innovation behaviour of pig producing farmers in Northern Uganda. A cross-section survey of 239 respondents selected through multiple stages of purposive and random sampling was done. Data were analysed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results show that information quality contributes significantly to innovation behaviour directly (β = 0.247; P < 0.01) as well as indirectly through the partial mediation of information utilization (β = 0.176; 95% CI = 0.040 0.349). Therefore, interventions that seek to enhance smallholder farmer innovation should provide quality information and support farmers to utilise it.

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Assessing the information seeking behaviour and utilization of rice farmers in the Ejisu-Juaben municipality of Ashanti Region of Ghana

Cited by 20 publications

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Delta Eyaleti, Nijerya'da Meteoroloji Hizmetlerine Erişim ve Kullanım Kısıtlamaları

Delta Eyaleti, Nijerya'da Meteoroloji Hizmetlerine Erişim ve Kullanım Kısıtlamaları

Development of balanced nutrient management innovations in South Asia: Perspectives from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

Effect of market information quality, sharing and utilisation on the innovation behaviour of smallholder pig producers

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