Factors Influencing the Adoption of Mobile Phones among the Farmers in Bangladesh: Theories and Practices

Islam, M. Sirajul; Grönlund, Åke

doi:10.4038/icter.v4i1.4670

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“…In agreement, Muto and Yamano [55] contend that compared to other channels of information access, the spread of information is faster among households that use mobile phones in agriculture. However, this is not without challenges, which include a lack of an information center specifically for agriculture, a lack of access to power for charging phone batteries, network problems, insufficient funds for recharging their phones and language barriers [56][57][58]. The mere availability of mobile phones in agricultural communities does not inherently indicate that farmers are making use of them as a solution to their information problems.…”

Section: Do Farmers Use Mobile Phones To Access Agricultural Informatmentioning

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Agricultural Informatization and Technical Efficiency in Maize Production in Zambia

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The cropland productivity gap between Africa and the rest of the world is widening. Fortunately, increasing farmers’ access to useful agricultural information reduces the costs of searching for information, thereby leading to higher agricultural productivity and sustainability. This study investigates the association between the adoption of mobile phones to collect agricultural information and farmers’ technical efficiency (TE) in Zambia. Different from previous studies, we focus on the actual use of mobile phones by farmers rather than mere ownership. Farmers were selected using a two-stage sampling procedure, and the Cobb-Douglas (CD) production function is adopted to estimate the association using two approaches—the conventional stochastic production frontier (SPF) and propensity score matching-stochastic production frontier (PSM-SPF) model. In both cases, we found that the use of mobile phones is significantly and positively associated with farmers’ TE. However, the conventional SFP model exaggerates the TE scores by 5.3% due to its failure to mitigate biases from observed variables. Regarding the agricultural growth indicators (income and output) related to TE, a close inspection reveals that increasing mobile phone use to close the TE gap between the two groups could result in a 5.13% and 8.21% reduction in severity of poverty and extreme poverty, respectively. Additional research is essential to corroborate the findings and analyze the potential causal mechanisms. Our study provides strong evidence to promote mobile phone use in agricultural production in rural Zambia.

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Section: Do Farmers Use Mobile Phones To Access Agricultural Informatmentioning

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Agricultural Informatization and Technical Efficiency in Maize Production in Zambia

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“…We expect that understanding these factors could help increase uptake of TC banana planting material. Recent applications of UTAUT for assessing uptake of a new technology such as TC banana include: Wu, Tao, and Yang (2007); Maldonado et al (2009);Islam and Grönlund (2011);and Taiwo and Downe (2013). Specifically, UTAUT has been applied to examine rural farmers' adoption of agricultural information technology services (Wu 2012); farmers' uptake of solar water pump technology in Northern Pakistan (Zhou and Abdullah 2017), and farmers' acceptance of pressurized irrigation technology (Nejadrezaei et al 2018).…”

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“…The promotion of TC planting materials amongst smallholder farmers for adoption mirrors this structural set of the UTAUT model in the sense that the focus is on farmers' acceptance of TC as a technology. UTAUT explains that people accept new ideas, such as using banana TC planting materials, following a series of complex mental processes in which intentions precede behaviour (Venkatesh et al 2003;Islam and Grönlund 2011). However, the concept of effort expectancy, which recounts the extent to which a farmer believes that using TC planting material is free of effort, was dropped in the analytical framework because it is a notion farmers in the current study communities are ardently aware of, having interfaced with this technology for over a decade now.…”

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Unravelling technology-acceptance factors influencing farmer use of banana tissue culture planting materials in Central Uganda

Mulugo

Kyazze

Kibwika

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African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Developm

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Effective management of plant health is fundamental for food and income security to meet the growing demands of local and global markets. This however requires farmers' adequate access to quality planting materials under the prevailing contextual and psycho-social factors. This study, anchored in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technologies, unravels technology-acceptance factors that influence farmers' intentions to use banana tissue culture planting materials in the control of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt. Data were collected from 248 randomly sampled banana farmers using a structured questionnaire and analyzed using structural equation modelling to examine hypothesized paths in the uptake of banana tissue culture planting materials. Results show that farmer intentions to use tissue culture planting materials are dependent on two constructs: social influence and farmer innovativeness. However, social influence is the main predictor of intentions to use tissue culture planting materials. In particular, farmer innovativeness mediates facilitating conditions and social influence in predicting intentions to use tissue culture planting materials. Thus, this study reveals two factors that influence farmer intentions to use tissue culture planting materials: social influence and farmer innovativeness. The findings imply that social influence and farmer innovativeness are critical in disseminating novel agricultural technologies in Uganda and elsewhere.

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“…They believe in usual farming practices etc. [11,12]. They (old farmers) are more traditional in nature and they are much interested to follow their customary ways in doing agriculture.…”

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Relationship between Socioeconomic Characteristics and Usability of Online and Mobile Media among Farmers of Punjab

Kaur

Thapar

2019

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The present paper is an endeavour to analyze the accessibility and usability of online and mobile media among farmers and to find out the relationship between socioeconomic variables and various online and mobile media. The primary data were collected from randomly selected 720 farmers from 16 villages of Punjab through self-structured questionnaire. The findings of the study indicate that 99.17 per cent of farmers in the study area had access to mobile phones while 78.05 per cent farmers were using internet on their mobile phones. However, 60.56 per cent farmers had used agri-apps and agricultural websites to obtain agricultural information. Only 43 per cent of them had positive perception towards the usefulness of information attained through online and mobile media. Further, there was a positive correlation of socioeconomic characteristics such as education, income and land with usage of online and mobile media whereas age and experience had shown negative correlation. This implies that with the increase in age and experience of farmers, the possibility of using mobile and online media for agricultural information declined whereas higher education, larger landholdings and more income facilitated greater use of mobile phones and internet for agriculture purposes. Thus, the socioeconomic characteristics of farmers had a direct and deep relationship with the accessibility and usage of online and mobile media among farmers of Punjab. The study recommends that a policy should be framed to educate the elderly farmers regarding the use of the new media. The scope of formal education among the youth should also be expended to realize the full potential of this medium.

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Factors Influencing the Adoption of Mobile Phones among the Farmers in Bangladesh: Theories and Practices

Cited by 36 publications

References 50 publications

Agricultural Informatization and Technical Efficiency in Maize Production in Zambia

Agricultural Informatization and Technical Efficiency in Maize Production in Zambia

Unravelling technology-acceptance factors influencing farmer use of banana tissue culture planting materials in Central Uganda

Relationship between Socioeconomic Characteristics and Usability of Online and Mobile Media among Farmers of Punjab

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