International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2016, Volume : 6, Issue : 10
First page : ( 809) Last page : ( 821)
Online ISSN : 2249-2496.

Gender use of global system for mobile communicationsin agriculture in Abuja, Nigeria

Ajah Julius

Department of Agricultural Economics/Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Abuja

Online published on 19 November, 2016.

Abstract

The study examined gender use of Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM)in Abuja, Nigeria. The main objective is to verify if significant difference exists in the male and female farmers’ use of GSM phones. A multi-stage technique was used to select respondents in four Area Councils(Kwali, Kuje, Gwagwalada and Abaji) while questionnaires were used for data collection. A total of 380 small-scale farmers (195 males and 185 females) were randomly interviewed. Data were analysed using a two-way mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results indicated that,on average, there was no significant difference (p>.05) in gender use of GSM phones in agriculture but there was significant (p<.05) interaction of gender and location implying thatgender use of GSM phones significantly varied in some locations. Although there was no significant difference in gender use of GSM phones, the mean responses indicated that the female farmers relatively used GSM phones more than their male counterparts. Majority of the male and female farmers indicated that they used GSM phones for communication especially to get information on market prices of goods and services while they hardly useit to transfer money for business transactions. Based on findings, the study concluded that there was no significant difference in gender use of GSM phones in agriculture in the study area but there were variations in some locations.

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Keywords

GSM phones, Area councils, Agriculture, Male farmers, Female farmers.

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