Factors Militating against Information Seeking Behaviour of Benue Farmers for Sustainable Agricultural Development
Authors : Lughlugh Joseph
The study investigated factors militating against Information Seeking behaviour of Benue farmers for sustainable agricultural development. Two purposes with corresponding research questions guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The population of the study comprised of 4200 registered farmers with Benue State Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (BNARDA). The sample size for the study was 365 farmers who were selected using multi-stage sampling procedure. The instrument employed for data collection was a self-developed questionnaire titled “Questionnaire on Factors Militating against Information Seeking Behaviour of Benue Farmers” (QFMAISBBF) which was validated by three experts. The reliability of the questionnaire was established using Cronbach Alpha method and a reliability coefficient of 0.72 was obtained which showed that the instrument was highly reliable. Data collected for the study were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The findings of the study revealed that there are several constraints facing famers in search of agricultural information for Sustainable Agriculture Development in Benue State. It also revealed several strategies for surmounting these challenges face by famers among others to include provision of agricultural education, radio and television broadcast in local dialect Recommendations were made that there should be provision of Radio / Television broadcast in local dialect in order to enhance accurate and timely dissemination of needed information to the farmers at the grass roots.
Keywords – Information need, information seeking behavior, Benue farmers, sustainable development
DOI : 10.26761/IJRLS.6.1.2020.1308 DOI URL: https://doi.org/1026761/ijrls.6.1.2020.1308
Cite This Article As: Lughlugh, J. (2020). Factors Militating against Information Seeking Behaviour of Benue Farmers for Sustainable Agricultural Development. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 6(1),47-52. www.ijrls.in
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