AN EVALUATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

ABSTRACT

Lack of adequate and timely information is one of the factors that could be responsible for low agricultural production in the rural areas of developing nations this could be sequel to the fact that many extension service providers are handicapped by administrative bottlenecks, declining public funds, farmers’ conservativeness, lack of accessibility and network connectivity, high rate of illiteracy of the farmers, outrageous extension agents/ farmers ratio, coupled with extension agents’ disposition to change which could affect their use of ICTs. Hence this study was conducted to assess ICTs adoption among extension workers in service delivery in Edo State, Nigeria by addressing the following objectives the socio-economic characteristics of extension agents, technologies extension agents have disseminated with ICTs; frequency of technologies dissemination with ICTs; access to training on ICTs; ICTs needs for extension services delivery; and challenges to effective use of ICT tools in extension service delivery in Edo State.