Factors affecting use of information communication technologies among extension agents in North-East, Nigeria

IF 0.5 Q4 AGRONOMY

Journal of Agricultural Extension Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI:10.4314/jae.v26i1.5

M. Sa’adu, M. Norsida, Arif Shah Jasmin, H. K. Nitty, A. Ahmadu

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Abstract

The study identified the levels of ICT use, awareness, accessibility, perceived organizational support, assessed the perception of the respondents on problems in using ICTs for agriculture extension work and, clarifies the relationships between awareness, accessibility, perceived organizational support, and use of ICTs. Data were collected through the use of a questionnaire distributed to 254 respondents using a multi-stage sampling and stratified sampling procedures. Mean, frequency, standard deviation and structural equation modelling in analysis of morement structure (AMOS) was used. Findings revealed that levels of ICT use (x̄ = 3.43), awareness (x̄ =3.40) accessibility (x̄ 3.66), and perceived organizational support (x̄ 3.574) were moderates. The high cost of ICT garget (x̄ =4.71), poor electricity supply (x̄ =4.69), lack of training (x̄ =4.63), ICT illiteracy (x̄ =4.61), outdated contents (x̄ =4.61), inability to use ICT (x̄ =4.55) and network issue (x̄ =4.34) were the critical problems in using ICTs in extension work. There was relationship between awareness, accessibility and motivation with ICT adoption among extension agents. Governments should design a policy that will focus on awareness, training, access to ICTs among the extension agents, provide an alternative source of power, this will enable them to remain within the system and also increase their usage of ICTs in extension service delivery.

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影响尼日利亚东北部推广人员使用信息通信技术的因素

该研究确定了信息和通信技术的使用、意识、可及性、感知的组织支持水平，评估了受访者对将信息和通信科技用于农业推广工作的问题的看法，并澄清了意识、可获性、感知组织支持和信息和通信技术使用之间的关系。数据是通过使用多阶段抽样和分层抽样程序分发给254名受访者的问卷收集的。采用均值、频率、标准差和结构方程建模方法进行了莫尔结构分析。研究结果显示，信息和通信技术的使用水平（x̄=3.43）、意识水平（x＝3.40）、可及性水平（x×3.66）和感知的组织支持水平（x～3.574）是调节因素。信息和通信技术成本高（x̄=4.71）、电力供应差（x̃=4.69。推广人员的意识、可及性和动机与采用信息和通信技术之间存在关系。各国政府应制定一项政策，重点关注推广人员的意识、培训和获得信息和通信技术的机会，提供替代的权力来源，这将使他们能够留在系统内，并在提供推广服务时增加对信息和通信技术的使用。

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Journal of Agricultural Extension AGRONOMY-

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1.10

自引率

25.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Agricultural Extension (JAE) is devoted to the advancement of knowledge of agricultural extension services and practice through the publication of original and empirically based research, focusing on; extension administration and supervision, programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, diffusion and adoption of innovations; extension communication models and strategies; extension research and methodological issues; nutrition extension; extension youth programme; women-in-agriculture; extension, Climate Change and the environment, ICT, innovation systems. JAE will normally not publish articles based on research covering very small geographic area that cannot feed into policy except they present critical insights into emerging agricultural innovations.