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Impact Of Mobile Phone On Agricultural Information Among Otukpo Farmers
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Communication which is so much a part
of us, sees to be everywhere at the same time, it is central to all
human interactions. It is the most basic and one of the earliest
activities of human beings. Communication as an integral part of our
existence for there to be any meaningful development, there has to be
communication between initiator of the developments process and the
target audience of these development project. All development depends on
knowledge and this knowledge is a function of the amount and quality of
facts at ones disposal. The farmers needs information on possibilities
that exist for improving on their lot and how to effect the necessary
changes. They also need specific information on how to do things that
will result in an improvement of their farming yield.
Agreeing on
the role of communication, Ebo (1999:24) observes that communication in
development can teach new skills act as multiplier of resources, raise
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for action, raise level of
people, help to find new norms and harmony in periods of transaction
change the structure in a society by knowledge to the mares, create
sense of nationality and led to increased political participation,
promote people need in satisfying developments projects and making
economic, social and political development a self perpetual process.
Due
to this important role of communication, mobile phone have been given a
prominent role in communicating development messages to the people. In a
similar view Abiri (2011:1) says that today’s world seems to be
dominated by improved technology has made much impact in communication,
mass communication in particular. Improved technology has greatly
increase the efficiency of communication to the extent that the process
can send and receive messages around the world and into space with
maximum speed and efficiency.
The point of the matter here however
is on the telecommunication industry. Technological revolution has
impacted so much on telecommunication sectors to the extent that it
becomes of the fastest growing industries in the world. Efficient 13
telecommunication
services play vital role in modern societies of money developed and
developing nations. In Nigeria, the first national development plan
(1963 – 1968) identified the need for rapid development of
telecommunication sector.
Commenting on telecommunication Ndula
(2002:5) asserted that today the growth of telecommunication has been
accompanied with significant advances in technology research. One of the
latest in modern telecommunication, central to information technology
is the mobile phones. Today the much anticipated system of mobile
communication recently introduced in Nigeria has brought about a total
revolution in the history of telecommunication development in Nigeria.
The
importance of mobile phones among farmers cannot be overemphasized as
it makes it very easy for farmers to interact with ease and immediacy.
Farmers operators use mobile phones to make speedily appointments, quite
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Mobile phones
have gone through a long process of evolution and all through about six
decades of continuous evolution, the mobile phone has retained its
relevance to the life of the modern man. At every stage in his growth
curve, it has undergone metamorphosis, adding features and
functionalities that make it even more indispensable. It started as an
extension of the landline, a bridge between the home and office
landlines. It found relevance in the need of the modern professional to
remain in communication in and out of home or office, at lay in the car,
at lauch and anywhere else. The mobile phone has since moved up from
this sophistic role to become more actually involved in the way modern
business are educated. Apart from, being a tool for mobile voice
communication, mobile phones today are a hybrid of personal computers
and a communication device. They come with screens, miniky boards
storage for personal information such as contacts, email, documents, the
ability to play video files, games and a communications capacity. With
these features and functionality. Come a wide range of other uses, a
mobile phone can put into a business or work environment apart from the
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traditional voice communication. Now mobile phone makes it
possible for a busy executive to work from any part of the world. He can
access the treats critical emails sent to him regardless of how far way
from the office her or she works. All he needs to do is to access the
internet via his or her mobile phone.
What promises to be a killer
application in mobile services in a short while is mobile television.
This service will enable mobile phone subscribers watch television
programmes on the mobile phones. Imagine driving on your car to your
office and watching amplitude modulation express on Nigeria television
authority on your mobile phone or wanting at the airport for a flight
and catching up with your favourite comedy series on a local television
station. Imagine sharing your television experience with your friends
and family and receiving advertising targeted to your needs. These are
all possibilities that mobile television offered.
It was in this
regard that Comer and Howthon (400:11) says communication is essentially
a social affairs man has evolved a lost of different systems of
communication which render his social life 16
possible and not in the sense of living a packs for hunting or making war, but in a sense unknown to animals.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study “The Impact of mobile phone on Agricultural Information among Otukpo Farmersâ€. A study of Agric information dissemination among Otukpo farmer, Otukpo Local Government Area. Using a survey of five villages in Otukpo town, Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, the researcher found that Otukpo farmers has adopted the impact of mobile phones in getting agric information due to the benefits derives from it such as enabling verification/discussion with chief farmers and ex ... Continue reading---
