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2. Agriculture in the information society
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thysen, Iver (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-07
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16713
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 76(3) : 297-303
3. Assessing rural women food producers capacity to adopt modern ICTs - a case study of the Mfantsiman District of Ghana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sampong, D.D. (author), Egyir, I.S. (author), and Yaw, Osei-Asare (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10923
- Notes:
- Paper presented at the African Association of Agricultural Economists second international conference, Accra, Guana, August 20-22, 2007. 4 pages., The traditional way of information dissemination has been through people; the modern way is through the electronic media – improved information and communication technologies (ICTs). For effectiveness, modern ICTs should help women to improve on their income generating capacity. Issues of level of resource capacity of women, information needed, and current sources of such information become important. This study sought to investigate the issues above with respect to rural women food producers in the Mfantsiman District of Ghana. Simple descriptive statistics and econometric models were employed in the data analysis of 91 randomly selected respondents. The results of the study showed that: In general, the women food producers were aged, subsistence food crop farmers. They depended on the natural rainfall cycle and had inadequate funds, so they use traditional inputs for production and sell surpluses in the community. The most important agricultural information needed was on inputs, specifically, low cost in-kind or cash credit. Currently, the major information sources are relatives and other farmers in the locality, agricultural extension agents, the radio and television. This suggests that the women food producers have low resource capacity and this could limit the adoption of modern ICTs as a source of and media for information dissemination. Yet, the regression results show that the few (6) mobile phone users have a higher income generating capacity. In order to improve on capacity to use modern ICTs for increased access to other resources, women farmers’ should organize themselves into formidable groups so local institutions can assist easily.
4. Farmers' use of mobile phone for accessing agricultural information in Pakistan: a case of Punjab province
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Khan, Nasir Abbas (author), Qijie, Gao (author), Ali, Shoukat (author), Shahbaz, Babar (author), and Shah, Ashfaq Ahmad (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Pakistan
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11378
- Journal Title:
- Ciencia Rural
- Journal Title Details:
- 49 : 10, e20181016,
- Notes:
- 12 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). 12 pages., Authors focused on use of mobile phones in accessing agricultural information by farmers in the Punjab province. Major uses involved market information, plus other kinds of agricultural information. Major constraints involved farmers' limited aptitude for use of mobile phones and lack of awareness of information sources.