Understanding roles of different stakeholders influencing the use of mobile phones to access agricultural information: A case of Kilolo and Kilosa districts, Tanzania
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Date
2020-06
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IJASRT in EESs
Abstract
T
he study investigated roles of different stakeholders influencing the use of mobile
phones in accessing agricultural information in Tanzania. While information is
becoming an important ingredient in agriculture, farmers in Tanzania suffer the problem of
lacking access to agricultural information. Promisingly, mobile phone technology has
become the most valued infrastructure which gives people access to information and
services they need. Actually, the subscription of mobile phones in Tanzania is ubiquitous
and is ever-growing. However, many farmers are not fully utilizing the potential that the
technology prevails. There is an apparent disparity between mobile phone subscriptions
which is increasingly being adopted on one hand and their uptake into farming practices.
The question is, why farmers not fully utilizing the potential the technology prevails in
agriculture and how could they be helped? The research adopted a multi-stage sampling
technique whereby, initially two districts were purposively selected followed by a simple
random sampling technique to obtain 240 respondents. Data collection methods used was:
interviews, key informants interviews, and focus group discussions. Quantitative data were
analyzed using Statistical Package for Social (SPSS), whereby some descriptive statistics
including frequencies, means, percentages and standard deviations were determined. Chi-
square tests and regression analysis were also performed to test for the relationship between
variables and determine variables that are the best predictors, respectively.
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Multistakeholders Roles, mobile phones, agricultural information, agricultural information access