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Title: | Sensitising users for increased information use: the case of Nigerian farmers |
Author: | Ekoja, Innocent I. |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 193-204 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | information services agricultural extension |
Abstract: | Report of descriptive research that used a questionnaire, documentary sources and interviews to find out to what extent Nigerian farmers know and access NAERLS (National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services) information services, and to what extent such knowledge and access have acted as impetus for increased information use as revealed in farmers' level of information needs. The six broad information services of NAERLS are farm broadcasts (radio and television), extension publications, agricultural shows and farmers' field days, training, extension advisory services, and library services. Generally, the information services are well known and accessed by farmers in the (five ecological) zones they are meant for, especially services rendered via extension agents, posters and leaflets, the radio, agricultural shows and farmers' field days. Little known and accessed services were television programmes, English-language radio broadcasts, and most extension publications. The sustained provision of the NAERLS information services has also adequately sensitized many Nigerian farmers to their information needs, and as a consequence, they are likely to use more agricultural information, if made available. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |