Abstract

Aim: The study was conducted to investigate the use of Information and Communication Technologies by farmers in Oluyole Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria using the logit and probit approach.

Method and Materials: A multistage sampling technique was used to select the local government, villages and farmers per village. One thousand (1000) respondents were sampled. Analytical techniques included descriptive statistics of logit and probit model analysis.

Results: Mode age of the farmers was observed between 51 and 60 years, while majority (78.4%) were male and 21.6% were female. The study revealed that majority of the respondents did attend school and high percentages (86.0%) of the respondents were married. The majority ICTs usage led by the respondents is radio. Logit and Probit model results show that independent variable like age, marital status and major occupation were positively related to the use of information technology and were significant at 0.01 and 0.05 level of probability.

Conclusion: Logit and Probit model concluded that the independent variables like age, marital status and major occupation were positively related to the use of information communication technology and were significant at 0.01 and 0.05 level of probability. The marital status will enhance increase family labour while the major occupation (farming) which is positively related will improve food security and standard of living of the farmers.

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