Exploring The Adoption Of Information And Communication Technology For Agriculture Sustainability: The Case Of Hadiya Zone, Ethiopia

Abstract

Currently Adoption of ICT for Agriculture sustainability, especially in developing countries, has increased in amount and complexity due to governance, social perspective, and adoption of information technology. The aim of this study was to explore the Adoption of ICT for Agriculture sustainability: The Case of Hadiya Zone Ethiopia. Poor ICT adoption poses serious risks to the productivity, resulting in everything from backward to promote society economy, highlighting the need for creative for information communication methods. The problems with ICT as a rationale are a power for everything in the world with the great advance in promoting the important tools of information and communication technology adoption in sustainable agriculture mixed-method approach was used, including a quantitative survey, and qualitative investigation. This study was employed with different data sources. The primary data was gathered from DA, model formers and agriculture office communication experts. The qualitative data was obtained through face-to face interviews with key informants and focus group discussions (FGD). The result looks to Assess to Adopt ICT for Agriculture Sustainability were made on decision of agree and strongly agree where as few respondents were give clue on disagree of adoption of ICT Agriculture sustainability. In addition, ICT tool preference and adoption were in the respondent’s weighs using ICT increasingly in the locality where as the rest of respondents believe on decreasing. accessing to Adopt ICT for agricultural information (such as mobile phone television radio, internet computer and targeted programs for instance 8023 but remaining finding infer about no change from the previous. The determinants that can hide adoption was age, environmental factors, economic and educuational background. As recommendation to keep model farmers on the path of current agriculture sustainability in the sector, this study supports frequent grass root technological training gap that will expose these farmers step by step to the adopt on ICT world.