NASS Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Constraints of Women Farmer’s Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Agricultural Information in Oyo State, Nigeria

Adebisi Gbadebo

Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology

Martins M.O

Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36956/njas.v2i1.27

Received: 7 August 2020; Published: 29 September 2020

Abstract

The study investigated constraints of women farmers access to ICTs for agricultural information 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 (x=0.98) was the most available among the respondents while poor ICTs infrastructure (x=1.55) and difficulty in the utilization of ICTs gadgets (x=1.62) ranked highest as constraints access to ICTs for agricultural information. Significant relationship existed between respondents average monthly income (r= 0.492, p=0.000), educational level (x 2 = 4.726, p= 0.021) and the constraints access to ICTs for agricultural information. Scaling up the ICTs infrastructure base around farming clusters and capacity building like training on ICTs to access agricultural information retrieval is advocated for women farmers.

Keywords: Keywords, ICTs, access, constraints, agricultural information.

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