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Determinants for Adoption of ICT-Based Market Information Services by Smallholder Farmers and Traders in Mayuge District, Uganda

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  • Sekabira, Haruna
  • Bonabana-Wabbi, Jackline
  • Asingwire, Narathius

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Market access is increasingly relying on ICTs that are adopted haphazardly yet less is known about available ICTs; technology, potential users, and characteristics of both entities hence the study assessed adoption of ICTs in market services by smallholders determining; components, factors influencing adoption, choice of combinations and 150 farmers and 50 traders were interviewed randomly. Majority of respondents had knowledge of ICT groups but only 22% had membership despite 80% agreeing that ICTs benefit agriculture. Radio and mobile phone were most used and poverty, poor power/network coverage limited ICT use whereas experience, family size and land farmed influenced adoption.

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  • Sekabira, Haruna & Bonabana-Wabbi, Jackline & Asingwire, Narathius, 2012. "Determinants for Adoption of ICT-Based Market Information Services by Smallholder Farmers and Traders in Mayuge District, Uganda," 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 126198, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iaae12:126198
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.126198
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    1. Sekabira, Haruna & Qaim, Matin, 2016. "Mobile Money, Agricultural Marketing, and Off-Farm Income in Uganda," GlobalFood Discussion Papers 234998, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, GlobalFood, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.
    2. Sekabira, Haruna & Qaim, Matin, 2016. "Mobile Phone Technologies, Agricultural Production Patterns, and Market access in Uganda," 2016 Fifth International Conference, September 23-26, 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 246310, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).

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    Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies;
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