Attitude of crop farmers towards e-wallet platform of the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme for input delivery in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo state

Fadairo, Olushola; Olutegbe, Nathaniel Siji; Tijani, Adewale M

doi:10.17700/jai.2015.6.2.184

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“…It can be deduced that as an individual get more exposed to formal education, they get civilized and the better they are bound to respond to innovation. The finding corroborates the summation of Fadairo, Olutegbe and Tijani (2015) that says the basic objective of any form of education is to impact knowledge which would influence a change in attitude, skills, or knowledge. Also, when people get married, they tend to assume more responsibility and as such their drive to explore healthier, medicinal and economically friendly nutritional practices like entomophagy increases.…”

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Determinants of edible insects consumption level in Kogi State, Nigeria

Meludu¹,

Onoja²

2018

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Section: Constraints To Edible Insects Consumptionsupporting

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Determinants of edible insects consumption level in Kogi State, Nigeria

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2018

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“…(Anjum, 2015;Brugger, 2011;Caine, Dorward, Clarkson, Evans, & Canales, 2015;David-West, 2010;Fadairo, Olutegbe, & Tijani, 2015;GF, 2014;Ifeoma & Mthitwa, 2015;Jato & Terna, 2015;Liu & Palmisano, 2012;McCole, Culberttson, Suvedi, & McNamara, 2014;Motilewa, Worlu, Adepoju, & Fayomi, 2015;Nwaobiala & Ubor, 2016;Schalkwyk, Young, & Verhulst, 2017;Tisselli, 2015).…”

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“…Other obstacles related to network communication include weak networks in remote areas (Ifeoma & Mthitwa, 2015), frequent electricity load shedding or unreliable sources of electricity (Anjum, 2015), poor network connectivity (Nwalieji, 2015), limited network coverage (Nwaobiala & Ubor, 2016), delayed alert messages (Fadairo et al, 2015), intermittent and weak broadband signal (Tisselli, 2015), and a limit on SMS technology that does not allow number of characters to exceed 160 (Ifeoma & Mthitwa, 2015).…”

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“…Unfortunately, only a few studies have explored mobile phone technology use in crop farming projects and identified challenges facing SSFs. For example, most of the studies have focused on the impact of application of mobile phones (Balraj & Pavalam, 2012;McCole, Culberttson, Suvedi, & McNamara, 2014), the effectiveness of mobile phone technology use (Nwaobiala & Ubor, 2016), the assessment of farmers' attitudes (Fadairo, Olutegbe, & Tijani, 2015), farmers' empowerment (Saravanan & Bhattacharjee, 2013), comparative factors involved in mobile phone use (Arinloye, Linnemann, Hagelaar, Coulibaly, & Omta, 2015), and potentiality of the role of mobile phone technology in agriculture (Adebo, 2014).…”

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Challenges facing sub‐Saharan small‐scale farmers in accessing farming information through mobile phones: A systematic literature review

Misaki

Apiola

Gaiani

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The use of mobile phone technology has increasingly been advocated to assist smallscale farmers. Accordingly, numerous studies have been conducted on the impact, effectiveness, user's attitude, assessment, empowerment, and the potential use of mobile phone technology in agriculture. This study explores the challenges that small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa face when using a mobile phone technology in crop farming projects and proposes areas for future improvement. The study used a systematic literature search conducted by authors at 3 levels, in which 134 studies initially identified were then narrowed to 11. These 11 studies generated 7 projects that use specialized applications in a farming value chain. The findings from the study indicate some of the challenges faced by small-scale farmers, including the lack of their involvement in the initial phase of the invention process. Other obstacles include low trust and transparency, inappropriate use of foreign language (English) in a local cultural context, bureaucracy, and theft of mobile phones. On the basis of these results, the authors conclude that there are generalized factors for understanding deficiencies experienced by small-scale farmers, which ought to be understood by all crop farming stakeholders. These factors can be used by software engineers to design future technologies beneficial to small-scale farmers. KEYWORDSchallenges, farming information, mobile phone, small-scale farmers, sub-Saharan Africa | INTRODUCTIONSeveral studies postulate that mobile phone technology use is important to farmers and supports crop production (Baumüller, 2013;CIARD, 2012;De Silva & Ratnadiwakara, 2008;Duncombe, 2016;Furuholt & Matotay, 2011;Gayi & Tsowou, 2016;Wellard, Rafanomezana, Nyirenda, Okotel, & Subbey, 2013). The use of mobile phone technology in the crop farming value chain enables small-scale farmers (SSFs) to access farming information that supports optimal decision-making and increases crop productivity. Consequently, it is envisaged that SSFs using mobile phone technology may have the potential to improve food security and reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Mungera and Karfakis (2013) describe SSFs as people who own between 0.1 and 10 hectares of land. Small-scale farmers commonly have access to less than 2 hectares of land (NEPAD, 2013;Vanlauwe et al., 2014). This study reiterates that SSFs are characterized by limited access to land, low skills, family labour, and subsistence farming practices based on rudimentary inputs and are rainfall dependent with low bargaining power.In Tanzania and Zambia, 75% of the total population derives their livelihoods from agriculture (Kalinda, Filson, & Shute, 2010;Misaki, Apiola, & Gaiani, 2016). Hence, an innovation that increases agricultural productivity cannot be ignored as it improves the livelihood of most farmers. Studies that address challenges facing SSFs may be pivotal in reversing a decline in food production and deserve attention (Kalinda et al., 2010). One of the many difficulties SS...

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“…Specifically, in addition to occasional physical meetings or visits, online or phone-based systems of engagement with the forest-edge communities must be established in order to promote a sense of collective ownership and a more meaningful impact of the project at the local level. The success stories on the use of e-wallet for facilitating farmers access to agrisupport services in rural areas of Nigeria (Fadairo, Olutegbe, and Tijani 2015) indicates that the phone-based system of engagement with forest communities in Nigeria is workable. Also, there needs to be a provision of policy procedures through which individual members of the REDD+ communities can submit complains and grievances anonymously so that possible threats to beneficiaries' cooperation and project sustainability are quickly detected and addressed appropriately.…”

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confidence: 99%