The Role and Potential of Information Technology in Agricultural Development

Abstract

Rural people are migrating towards urban areas to search the better opportunities for last couple of decades. Basic infrastructure facilities available in rural area are very less. Due to the lack of development and opportunities rural community will migrate to urban areas in search of jobs. This causes decline in economy of rural areas. Special focus has to be given for rural development which can enhance economy, social status and life style and living standards of the rural people. The task is to find different ways of using the ICT to assist development in activity in rural to improve living standard and achieve a specific goal or objective Agriculture is one of the major components of economy and plays a key role in the nation development. But improvements in agricultural sector are uneven and disappointing. ICT has the potential to address the challenges, however use of the technology in agricultural and rural areas is very slow. Purpose of the proposed study is to review the opportunities, potential and contribution of ICT in agricultural sector

Utilisation of Information Communication Technologies among Male and Female Rural Dwellers of Southwestern Nigeria

“…The network facilitation identified as the most benefitderived corroborates the result of this study (Tabe 2) that the main purpose of respondents' use of ICTs was for networking which was in line with the outcome of the study. The result of this study suggests that the networking done by the respondents via the tools used might facilitated the time saved in carrying out some activities by the respondents which is in line with the research outcomes of Ramanna, 2020;Yahaya et al, 2019& Deepak, 2021. Nevertheless, the result further suggests that the networking of the respondents via the ICTs use might not always be for employment as this was the least benefits derived from the ICTs utilization.…”