Analysis of smallholder farmers’s ICT-adoption and use through their personal information space

Csótó, Mihály (2017) Analysis of smallholder farmers’s ICT-adoption and use through their personal information space. AGRÁRINFORMATIKA / JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL INFORMATICS, 8 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2061-862X

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Abstract

ICT has now apparently penetrated the agricultural production processes and farm management tasks. It is necessary to understand the characteristics of these processes in order to effectively exploit the potential inherent in infocommunication devices. The aim of the research was to explore the personal information space and the fundamental relations of information management of farmers from which important conclusions can be drawn in regard to the design, introduction and operation of information services provided to farmers and reducing the information deficit in the agricultural sector.Analysing the database comes from a questionnaire survey conducted in May and June 2015 in Hajdú-Bihar County among smallholder farmers. The article concludes that farmers have different preferences in regard to using information sources, based on which they can be divided into distinct categories, while the information space that results from their choices of these sources gives a clear pictureto ICT adaptation and usage. Three distinct groups could be set up, each withtheir own attributes, information preferences and information activities: ‘the information accumulators’, ‘the analytically-minded’ and ‘the isolated ones’.

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