Determinants for Adoption of ICT-Based Market Information Services by Smallholder Farmers and Traders in Mayuge District, Uganda

Market access is increasingly relying on ICTs that are adopted haphazardly yet less is known about available ICTs; technology, potential users, and characteristics of both entities hence the study assessed adoption of ICTs in market services by smallholders determining; components, factors influencing adoption, choice of combinations and 150 farmers and 50 traders were interviewed randomly. Majority of respondents had knowledge of ICT groups but only 22% had membership despite 80% agreeing that ICTs benefit agriculture. Radio and mobile phone were most used and poverty, poor power/network coverage limited ICT use whereas experience, family size and land farmed influenced adoption.

[1]  J. Voogt,et al.  International handbook of information technology in primary and secondary education , 2008 .

[2]  Mehruz Kamal,et al.  Meeting the challenges of ICT adoption by micro-enterprises , 2008, J. Enterp. Inf. Manag..

[3]  R. Dholakia,et al.  Factors Impacting the Adoption of the Internet among SMEs , 2004 .

[4]  M. Herselman,et al.  Information Access for Development: A Case Study at a Rural Community Centre in South Africa , 2006 .

[5]  Kenneth C. C. Yang,et al.  Exploring factors affecting the adoption of mobile commerce in Singapore , 2005, Telematics Informatics.

[6]  J. Donner,et al.  Mobile banking and economic development: linking adoption, impact, and use , 2008 .

[7]  Derek H.T. Walker,et al.  Factors affecting ICT diffusion: a case study of three large Australian construction contractors , 2005 .

[8]  Faisal Buyinza,et al.  Adaptation to climate change in Uganda: Evidence from micro level data , 2011 .

[9]  Klong Luang,et al.  Selected Success Stories on Agricultural Information Systems , 2006 .

[10]  William A. Amponsah,et al.  Computer Adoption and Use of Information Services by North Carolina Commercial Farmers , 1995, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

[11]  Martyn Warren,et al.  Farmers online: drivers and impediments in adoption of Internet in UK agricultural businesses , 2004 .

[12]  C. Barrett,et al.  An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia , 2006 .

[13]  Brychan Thomas,et al.  Farmers' Markets in Wales: Making the 'Net work? , 2004 .

[14]  C. Soriano.  Exploring the ICT and Rural Poverty Reduction Link: Community Telecenters and Rural Livelihoods in Wu'an, China , 2007, Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries..

[15]  Richard Heeks,et al.  ICT Initiatives, Women and Work in Developing Countries: Reinforcing or Changing Gender Inequalities in South India? , 2004 .

[16]  Jeffrey Scott Vitter,et al.  Random sampling with a reservoir , 1985, TOMS.

[17]  J. Okello.  Compliance with international food safety standards: the case of green bean production in Kenyan family farms , 2005 .

[18]  P. Schmidt,et al.  Limited-Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics. , 1984 .

[19]  Luis H. Gutiérrez,et al.  An Approximation to the Digital Divide Among Low Income People in Colombia, Mexico and Perú: Two Composite Indexes , 2008 .

[20]  Md. Salleh Hassan,et al.  Developing agriculture in Malaysia: internet utilization among Malaysian youth agro-businessman , 2009 .

[21]  Claudia Ringler,et al.  Determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia , 2009 .

[22]  R. Bogdan.  Qualitative research for education : an introduction to theory and methods / by Robert C. Bogdan and Sari Knopp Biklen , 1997 .

[23]  Paul Beynon-Davies,et al.  Older people and internet engagement: Acknowledging social moderators of internet adoption, access and use , 2008, Inf. Technol. People.

[24]  Bahaman Abu Samah,et al.  Contribution of information and communication technology in increasing agro-based entrepreneurs productivity in Malaysia. , 2009 .

[25]  Jonathan Donner.  Customer Acquisition among Small and Informal Businesses in Urban India: Comparing Face‐to‐face and Mediated Channels , 2007 .

[26]  Sarah Parkinson,et al.  Using a Sustainable Livelihoods Approach to Assessing the Impact of ICTs in Development , 2007, J. Community Informatics.

[27]  S. Zingore,et al.  The Dynamics of Social Capital in Influencing Use of Soil Management Options in the Chinyanja Triangle of Southern Africa , 2008 .

[28]  R. Jensen.  The Digital Provide: Information (Technology), Market Performance, and Welfare in the South Indian Fisheries Sector , 2007 .

[29]  Gill Green,et al.  Policy Issues of e-Commerce Technology Diffusion in Southeast Nigeria: The Case of Small Scale Agribusiness , 2009 .

[30]  R. Garrett,et al.  Protest in an Information Society: a review of literature on social movements and new ICTs , 2006 .

[31]  C. Barrett.  Smallholder market participation: Concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa , 2008 .

[32]  Siriginidi Subba Rao.  Role of ICTs in India's rural community information systems , 2004 .

[33]  Arlene Bailey,et al.  Issues Affecting the Social Sustainability of Telecentres in Developing Contexts: A Field Study of Sixteen Telecentres in Jamaica , 2009, Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries..

[34]  Glen M. Farrell.  Survey of ICT and education in Africa : Uganda country report , 2007 .