“…Due to their incapacity of gaining knowledge, farmers are mostly prevented from adopting advanced farming methods (e.g., improved seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides). The challenge of inadequate information again restricts farmers from improving their sales through relatively higher prices, which hampers farm households' welfare and agriculture development (Ben Hassen and El Bilali, 2021;Ma and Wang, 2020;Zheng and Ma, 2021). Access to information technologies (such as mobile terminals, the Internet, radios, and television) can provide services that can help farmers adopt advanced technologies, increase their investment in farming inputs, and make the best sales decisions, resulting in increased farm income through improved production and marketing performance (Gaiani, 2008;Hudson et al, 2017;Siaw et al, 2020).…”