Information and Communication Technologies in Modern Agricultural Development

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication

scholarly journals Frequency of use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Among Women Farmers in Agricultural Development Programme Zones in Oyo State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Sampled Data ◽  
Monthly Income ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Average Monthly Income

The potential of ICTs in retrieving vast amount of agricultural information at relatively low cost is invaluable, hence the study assessed the frequency of use of ICTs among women farmers in Agricultural Development Zones in Oyo State. A total of 120 respondents were sampled. Data were retrieved using interview schedule and were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Statistics reveal respondents average age, average household size and average monthly income as x =45.8, x =10.6 and x = ₦7,800.34 respectively, majority (86.7%) were married, 58.3 % representing respondents with primary education. Mobile phone was the most available (x=0.98) and the most frequently used (x=1.83 ) ICT by the respondents among all the ICTs available. Provision of information on fertilizer sources and application ( x=1.66) was the benefit derived most from the use of ICTs while poor ICTs infrastructure ( x=1.55) and difficulty in the utilization of ICTs gadgets (x=1.62) ranked highest as constraints to the utilization of ICTs. Significant relationship existed between respondents average monthly income (r= 0.492, p=0.000), educational level (χ2 = 4.726, p= 0.021) constraints to the utilization of ICTs (r=0.423 p=0.000) and utilization of ICTs. Scaling up the ICTs infrastructure base around farming clusters and capacity building on enhancing the utilization of mobile phones for agricultural information retrieval is advocated for women farmers.

scholarly journals Information and communication technologies (ICT) towards agricultural development in rural areas: case of smallholder farmers in Umzimvubu local municipality of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Z. Makaula ◽  
S.F.G. Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Eastern Cape Province ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Local Municipality ◽  
Information And Communication

This paper was initiated in order to find the usage and relevance of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by the smallholder farmers of the Umzimvubu Local Municipality of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. A survey questionnaire was then developed to collect the relevant data from randomly selected six villages of Umzimvubu Local Municipality targeting 138 respondents. The questionnaires structure employed both closed and open-ended questions that were administered using a face to face interview, conducted on the sample population in each village. There seems to be a correlation between ICT usage and the economies of scale in agricultural development, where smallholder farmers tend to use less of highly modernized ICT, while commercial large scale farmers use more of the modernized ICT. This disparity amongst farmers is exacerbated in many areas by the differing support systems employed by the public extension services. 

scholarly journals Business rules in the agricultural area 

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (No. 7) ◽  
pp. 335-340
Author(s):  
I. Rábová
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Area ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Sustainability Criteria ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Information And Communication

The identification of the improvement areas and utilization of information and communication technologies in agriculture, as the support of the agricultural development in line with the environmental sustainability criteria, have gained importance and priority in our knowledge driven society. Rules define constraints, conditions and policies of how the business processes are to be performed but they also affect the behavior of the resource and facilitate the strategic business goals achieving. They control the business and represent business knowledge. The article deals with business rules and rule technology and identifies the business and technical opportunities they afford company. It shows also how to specify and classify business rules from the business perspective and to establish an approach to managing them that will enable a faster change in business processes and other business concepts in particular business in agricultural area. This article could provide business analysts with an essential approach to understanding, redesigning and communicating what really happens in the business processes. 

Mobile Ict Integration in Extension Service Delivery: Case Assessment of Application Variance in Extension Tasks Executions in Southwest Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. A. LAWAL Adebowale
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Time Usage ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Mobile Ict ◽  
Extension Personnel

The study examined the usage of mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) in execution of extension tasks by extension personnel in southwest Nigeria. Findings are that mobile phones, laptops, and multimedia projectors were intensively used by all the extension personnel. Extension tasks executed were connectivity and linkages with stakeholders in agricultural development, presentation and teaching of extension messages, typesetting, and sourcing of extension information. Effects of mobile ICT applications in extension tasks executions include enhanced quality time usage in reaching out stakeholders in agriculture, reduced the risks of having to travel round the extension clients for interactions, and enhanced social interactions. Recommendation is that among several emerging mobile ICTs, appropriation of the devices for extension service delivery should be ensured.

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