Farmers Use of Icts for Marketing Information Outlets in Oyo State, Nigeria

Type Journal Article - Journal of Agricultural Science
Title Farmers Use of Icts for Marketing Information Outlets in Oyo State, Nigeria
Author(s)
Volume 5
Issue 11
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
Page numbers 150-158
URL http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/download/31275/18302
Abstract
The study examined the use of ICTs for accessing marketing information outlets in Oyo State, Nigeria. A simple
random sampling technique was used to select 150 respondents for the study. Data collected were analysed using
frequencies counts and percentages to describe the findings while, Chi-square and PPMC were used to test for
relationship between the variables in the study hypotheses. The results of the findings showed that majority (70%)
of the sampled respondents were male while (69.3%) were married with (84%) of them having a family size of less
than five members. Large proportion (59.3%) of the respondents fall within the ages of 31-50 years, and majority
(74.7%) of them were rural residence. The results also showed that majority (81.3%) of them required information
for the sales of their agricultural products. The major sources of agricultural marketing information outlets to the
respondents were fellow farmers (81.3%), radio (85.4%) and GSM (83%).The study found that (61.3%) of the
respondents were in low level category of ICTs users. Inferential statistics indicates that, there were significant
relationship between level of use of ICTs for agricultural marketing information and marital status (?
2
=10.46,
p>0.05) and level of educational attainment (?
2
=16.35, P>0.05). However, age (?
2
=5.5, p<0.05), sex (?
2
=5.99,
p<0.05) and family size (?
2
=6.22, p<0.05) had no significant relationship with marketing information outlets.
PPMC analysis revealed that radio(r=0.28, p>0.05), fellow farmers(r=0.19, p>0.05) and GSM (r=0.88, p>0.05) as
a source of marketing information were highly significant. The study recommends that government and other stake
holders in the information and communication technology industries should endeavour to eliminate the identified
barriers to the effective use of ICTs for marketing information outlets in the study area.

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