ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION AMONG PIG FARMERS IN ENUGU STATE

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ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION AMONG PIG FARMERS IN ENUGU STATE

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1,1 Background of the study

Information has received a wide range of acceptance as an essential resource of this century. It has been described as a simulating creativity, resulting in new outcomes and processes. All human societies depend very much on information for existence that is information is life. The proper identification and use of information sources are prerequisites for objective decision making. Consequently, the possession of awareness and use of appropriate information guarantee individual and organizational functioning. The major function of information is to increase the knowledge of the user, to reduce his level of uncertainty or reduce the varieties of choices available to the users of information. For information to be effective, it must be accurate, timely and relevant.

Ayanyemi (2006) referred to information as an essential resource for individual growth and survival. An informed mind is an enriched mind and if one is not informed he will be deformed. Information is a common term. It is often in the mouth of people, attracting diverse and ambivalent meanings and interpretations. Uhegbu (2007) opined that hardly can one mention the word ‘information’ without referring to somebody; the educated understand information from their various backgrounds.

Anything human beings interact with or observe can be a source of information (Bates 2012). The information source is a medium in which knowledge and/or information is stored. In other words, it is understood as something that contains and/or stores information (Bitso, 2012). Sources of information are tools that can possibly meet the information needs of different categories of users. They are the information carriers. There are different sources of information but what matters are ‘what’ sources are available and relevant to the different categories of users and what sources of information are useful for their different seeking behaviour, and mainly for utilization in order to accomplish tasks/needs.

Information sources are various means by which information is recorded for use by an individual and organization. Sources of information are: radio, television, extension workers, cooperative societies, friends and colleagues, newspapers and magazines, books/leaflets, phones, libraries and institutes. Also, observation of people organizations, speeches, documents, picture and art work can also be described as information sources.

Information services are the activities performed to facilitate any stage of the life cycle of information. The life cycle includes the creation, organization, use and disuse. Information services can be defined as services which provide (serves) data, knowledge, and information that are of interest to users. The interaction is that an information service collects (retrieves), manages (structures) and stores data. Productivity is measured as the ratio of agricultural input to output however; individual products are measured by weight and their densities. Measuring overall agricultural output are difficult because the output is usually measured as market value of final product; which excludes intermediate materials that goes to production such as corn feed used in the meat industry.

Agricultural productivity may also be measured by what is termed total factor productivity (TFP). This method of calculating agricultural productivity compares an index of agricultural input to an index of output. Productivity therefore measures changes in efficiency with which input is transformed into output. The indices for measuring are land, input hire, labourer energy input agricultural chemical input, pesticides consumption, fertilizer and capital.

Statement of the Problem

Information is an indispensable factor in the development of any nation. Choo (2012) affirmed that people use information to create knowledge, but not just in the sense of data and facts but the form of representations that provide meaning and the context for purposive action. Information service provision to farmers in Enugu state has been ineffective for the production of varieties of food and, raw materials for sustenance of the people. Majority of our rural farmers depend on indigenous or local knowledge for improved farming systems. Such knowledge (indigenous or local knowledge) refers to skills and experiences gained through oral tradition and practice over many generations but the use of such primitive skills by our rural farmers, especially those in Enugu State, Nigeria, has not substantially helped to improve yield.

Agricultural information is meant to get to rural farmers via extension workers, community libraries, radio, television, film shows, agricultural pamphlets, state government agricultural agencies. However, rural farmers in their efforts to access these agricultural knowledge and information from available sources for better farming system and improved agricultural yield are confronted with certain constraints.

Aina (2008) observed that the missing link between research and sustained productions is lack of effective service delivery services. There is a wide gap between available knowledge of improved technology and actual practice and this has had a considerable effect on the attempt at increasing food production. Thus, this study was conceived to identify the use of agricultural information sources and services by farmers for improving productivity in Enugu State for better farm practices.

Objectives of the Study

The objectivesof this research study are to:

1. Determine the demographic characterisitics of the farmers in the study area

2. Examine the level of availability of proven pig technologies to the respondents.

3. Identify information source through which farmers receive technologies

4. Ascertain respondents perceived role of extension agents as information channel

5. Ascertain respondents perceived role of different information sources

6. Identify the farmers perception of factors that constraint extension agents in communicating technologies to them and factors that constraint them from adopting new technologies

Research Questions

The following research questions are pertinent to this study:

1. What are the demographic characterisitics of the farmers in the study area

2. What is the level of availability of proven pig technologies to the respondents.

3. What is the information source through which farmers receive technologies

4. What are respondents perceived role of extension agents as information channel

5. What are respondents perceived role of different information sources

6.What are the farmers perception of factors that constraint extension agents in communicating technologies to them and factors that constraint them from adopting new technologies

Research Hypothesis

H0: There is no relationship between agricultural information and productivity among pig farmers

H1: There is no relationship between agricultural information and productivity among pig farmers

H0: Agricultural information does not have a significant impact on agricultural productivity of pig famers

H1: Agricultural information have a significant impact on agricultural productivity of pig famers

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