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Title

Evaluation of Small-Scale Women Farmers’ Utilization of ICT in Accessing Agricultural Information in Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja, Nigeria

Authors

Nwali Perpetual Nkechi,*a Sennuga Samson Olayemib and Okpala Emeka Franklinb

aDepartment of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Abuja, FCT, P.M.B. 117, Abuja, Nigeria.

bSchool of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Royal Agricultural University, Stroud Road, Cirencester, Gloucester, GL76JS, United Kingdom.

*Corresponding author E-mail address: pnkechi94@gmail.com (Nwali P.N.)

Article History

Publication details: Received: 07th January 2022; Revised: 08th March 2022; Accepted: 08th March 2022; Published: 19th March 2022

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Nwali P.N.; Sennuga S.O.; Okpala E.F. Evaluation of Small-Scale Women Farmers’ Utilization of ICT in Accessing Agricultural Information in Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja, Nigeria. Green Rep., 2022, 3(7), 34-38.

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Abstract

This study was carried out to evaluate the small–scale women farmers’ utilization of ICT in accessing agricultural information in Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja, Nigeria. A purposive and simple random sampling technique was adopted for sampling while questionnaires were used for data collection. A total of 100 small-scale women farmers, 20 each from five out of the ten political wards in the study area were sampled. The result of the revealed that majority of the respondents (35%) were at the age of 31-40 years, married (46%) while majority of the respondents (68%) had farm size in hectare of ≤ 5 hectares. The result equally indicated that GSM phones (98%), Radio (88%), television (83%), among others were the major ICTs available in the study area. On the other hand, majority of the respondents reported limited or unavailability of ICT facilities such as Zoom (59%), desktop (56%) and laptop (48%) respectively. The result indicated also that majority of the respondents were using GSM phones (98%), Radio (78%), and television (74%) respectively for information sourcing. However, majority do not use email (77%), Zoom (75%) desktop (69%) and newspapers (65%). The study therefore, recommends among others that there will be a need to create more awareness by educating the small-scale women farmers in the study areas on the need to embrace other information communication technology facilities such as Zoom and WhatsApp video conference calls usage which can be used to conduct meetings, training and pass other information as if the people are meeting physically and immediate responses to any issues raised obtained.

Keywords

evaluation; small-scale; women farmers; utilization; ICT 

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Cited By

This article is cited by 2 publications.

  1. Abraham, O.A., Merianchris, E.E., Oludare, O.O., Olayemi, S.S. and Mongalaku, B.T., 2022. Effect of Social Media in Enhancing Agricultural Extension Services among Farmers in Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja, Nigeria. Science and Technology, 3(4), pp.24-32. [Link]
  2. Abenga, J.K., Alabuja, F.O., Bako, H., Ajayi, A.H. and Sennuga, S.O., 2022. Barriers to Effective Extension Agents and Smallholder Farmer Communication in Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja, Nigeria. [Link]