The inspiration of the construction of the international agricultural information on the agricultural market information service in Chongqing

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tan Yong
Keyword(s):  
Information Service ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Agricultural Market

Understanding Crowdsourcing of Agricultural Market Information in a Pilot Study

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 898-913
Author(s):  
Musa Fadhili Juma ◽  
Kadeghe Goodluck Fue ◽  
Alcardo Alex Barakabitze ◽  
Neema Nicodemus ◽  
Mawazo Mwita Magesa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Agricultural Market ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Marketing Information

Access to agricultural markets and marketing information are essential factors in promoting competitive markets and improving agricultural sector development. The agricultural sector employs majorities in developing countries and contributes greatly to its development. Unluckily, majorities of the farmers are smallholders living in rural areas and thus, lack appropriate access to markets for their products and also, they are deprived of agricultural market information. As results, farmers are exploited by middlemen who offer low prices for their agricultural produce. This study presents the best way for the agricultural stakeholders to obtain easily agricultural market information service. This study presents a novel agricultural market information system which was implemented using some concepts of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing allows sellers to broadcast whatever produce they want to sell and customers are allowed to submit their requests using either SMS or web.

Understanding Crowdsourcing of Agricultural Market Information in a Pilot Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Musa Fadhili Juma ◽  
Kadeghe Goodluck Fue ◽  
Alcardo Alex Barakabitze ◽  
Neema Nicodemus ◽  
Mawazo Mwita Magesa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Agricultural Market ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Marketing Information

Access to agricultural markets and marketing information are essential factors in promoting competitive markets and improving agricultural sector development. The agricultural sector employs majorities in developing countries and contributes greatly to its development. Unluckily, majorities of the farmers are smallholders living in rural areas and thus, lack appropriate access to markets for their products and also, they are deprived of agricultural market information. As results, farmers are exploited by middlemen who offer low prices for their agricultural produce. This study presents the best way for the agricultural stakeholders to obtain easily agricultural market information service. This study presents a novel agricultural market information system which was implemented using some concepts of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing allows sellers to broadcast whatever produce they want to sell and customers are allowed to submit their requests using either SMS or web.

Understanding Crowdsourcing of Agricultural Market Information in a Pilot Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 895-910
Author(s):  
Musa Fadhili Juma ◽  
Kadeghe Goodluck Fue ◽  
Alcardo Alex Barakabitze ◽  
Neema Nicodemus ◽  
Mawazo Mwita Magesa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Agricultural Market ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Marketing Information

Access to agricultural markets and marketing information are essential factors in promoting competitive markets and improving agricultural sector development. The agricultural sector employs majorities in developing countries and contributes greatly to its development. Unluckily, majorities of the farmers are smallholders living in rural areas and thus, lack appropriate access to markets for their products and also, they are deprived of agricultural market information. As results, farmers are exploited by middlemen who offer low prices for their agricultural produce. This study presents the best way for the agricultural stakeholders to obtain easily agricultural market information service. This study presents a novel agricultural market information system which was implemented using some concepts of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing allows sellers to broadcast whatever produce they want to sell and customers are allowed to submit their requests using either SMS or web.

ICT-Based Market Information Services (MIS) Projects, Deployment Environment, and Performance

2012 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Julius Juma Okello
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Transactions Costs ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Agricultural Commodity ◽  
Service Projects ◽  
And Performance

The need to provide agricultural information to farmers has led to emergence of numerous electronic-based MIS projects in developing countries. These projects aim at promoting farmer linkage to better markets. However, experiences from past and present projects show mix cases of success and failure, despite some projects meeting their goals. This study examines how the environments in which such ICT-based MIS are deployed affect their performance. It specifically uses two ICT-based market information service projects, the DrumNet and Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE) projects, to assess how the socio-economic, physical, and institutional environments in such projects are deployed affect the performance of such projects. The study finds that a number of environmental factors related to socio-economic, physical, market, and legal environment affect the performance of ICT-based projects. Some of these factors exacerbate transactions costs thus undermining the performance and even sustainability of ICT-based MIS projects. It discusses policy implications of these findings.

The Role of ICT-Based Market Information Services in Spatial Food Market Integration

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samson P. Katengeza ◽  
Barnabas Kiiza ◽  
Julius Juma Okello
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Agricultural Markets ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Agricultural Commodity ◽  
Service Project ◽  
The Government

The government of Malawi in 2004 initiated an ICT-based Malawi Agricultural Commodity Exchange (MACE), a market information service project, to improve access by farmers to market information. MACE was intended to improve the efficiency of agricultural markets as part of the strategy to improve food security. This study uses quantitative methods to examine whether MACE has contributed to efficiency of rice markets in Malawi. It especially tests if MACE has contributed to spatial integration of rice markets. As hypothesized, the study finds that the tendency of rice prices to move together in spatially separated markets has significantly increased since the implementation of MACE. It concludes that ICT-based market information services project enhances linkages between markets and can therefore improve the efficiency with which agricultural markets perform. The study discusses implications of this finding for policy.

Influence of performance expectancy on commercial farmers’ intention to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural market information dissemination in Uganda

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 346-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benard Engotoit ◽  
Geoffrey Mayoka Kituyi ◽  
Musa Bukoma Moya
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Agricultural Market ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
Performance Expectancy

Purpose This paper to examine the relationship between performance expectancy and behavioural intention to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural market information dissemination in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach A descriptive field survey method was adopted. A total of 302 commercial farmers and agribusiness traders in Eastern Uganda participated in the study from whom data were collected using self-administered questionnaires. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, correlation and regression analyses were used in the study. Findings The findings reveal a significant positive relationship between performance expectancy and behavioural intentions to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural information access and dissemination. This implies that, commercial farmers’ behavioural intentions to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural market information dissemination and access will be influenced if they anticipate mobile-based communication technologies to offer greater performance in their daily transactions. Research limitations/implications This study was conducted in the context of resource constrained countries particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, however reflecting knowledge from other contexts. The study was conducted with a structured questionnaire being the main data collection tool, and this limited the study from collecting views outside the questions asked in the questionnaire. The variables studied could not be analysed for a long time, given that the study was cross-sectional in nature. Practical implications The study provides recommendations on how to further boost farmers’ behavioural intentions to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural information dissemination. Policy makers need to ensure that policies are put in place that encourage third party software developers and telecommunication companies to provide software products and solutions that are beneficial to the commercial farmers and can enable them complete their agricultural transactions in time. Social implications The study provides critical literature on the influence of performance expectancy on commercial farmers’ behavioural intentions to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural market information access and dissemination in resource constrained settings. Originality/value It is noted that farmers in Uganda are slowly progressing to newer mobile information and communication technology tools for market information access and dissemination; however, little is known as to why there is slow adoption of these mobile technologies for agricultural purposes; yet policy makers need to come up with proper strategies to encourage wide scale use of mobile technologies for agricultural market purposes.

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