Gratification Sought and Obtained from Mobile Phone by Aquaculture Farmers: Implication on Advisory Services Payment by Ifejika, P.I. National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research, P.M.B. 6006, New-Bussa, Niger State, Nigeria E-mails: [email protected]& [email protected]Mobile Phone: +2347089523717, +2348054565773 1
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Gratification Sought and Obtained from Mobile Phone by Aquaculture Farmers: Implication on Advisory Services Payment
byIfejika, P.I.
National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research, P.M.B. 6006, New-Bussa,
• Introduction• Methodology• Result & Discussion• Conclusion• Recommendations
Outline of Presentation
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Introduction
• Mobile phone status in African continent – About 65% of the population in Africa had access to
mobile phone services in 2008– 95% for North Africa and 60% for Sub Sahara Africa (SSA)
countries (Aker and Mbiti, 2010)• Mobile phone brought about changes in perceptive – Which gave rise to:• contemporary information society• new information behaviour • value for information
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Introduction: Mobile phone in agriculture
• In agriculture– farmers share in mobile phone information revolution – emergence of mobile phone innovative platforms
• Mobile phone functions and benefits in agricultural extension services include (Aker, 2010) – increase access to private information– increase access to public information– reduce costs of extension services– improve information quality– improve farmers’ management of input and output supply chains– facilitate service delivery– improve accountability via data collection– strengthen links with research systems
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Introduction: Innovative platforms• Innovation system is “a network of organizations focused on
bringing new products, new processes and new forms of organization into social and economic use, together with the institutions and policies that affect their behaviour and performance (The World Bank, 2007)
• Mobile phone innovative platforms in agriculture advisory services facilitates the following;– repackaging of information in usable form – investment – creditability – relevance – quality – effectiveness in terms of clarity, timeliness and comprehensive – cost sharing to meet needs
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• Mobile phone innovative platforms provide “operational information” which is information that is practical, concrete and able to help solve existing problems (Gachie, Ruault and Mendy, 2006).
• India had 59 ICT platforms– 10 depend sole on mobile phone (Saravanan, 2010)
• In Africa, 60 projects in 20 countries use ICT innovative platform (Gakuru et al., 2009) – 38 of them rely on mobile phone platform
• 22 use voice calls and 16 use SMS
• “E-Wallet” is the only mobile phone platform in agriculture extension services at federal level in Nigeria – Used to distribute fertilizer to crop farmers through SMS
(Ifejika, 2013)
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• Capture fisheries had received more attention mobile innovative platform (Jensen, 2007; Ifejika and Oladosu, 2011; Killian, 2011).
• Theories applied in the study of mobile phone in capture fisheries found in literature were: – Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology
(Shaffril, Omar, Hassan, et al., 2012) – Gender Theory and Activity Theory (Komunte, Rwashana
and Nabukenya, 2012)– Capability Theory (Ifejika and Oladosu, 2011) – Livelihood Approach (Myhr and Nordström, 2006) – Adoption and Diffusion Theory (Ofuoku, 2007)
Uses and Gratification Theory (UGT) in the study of mobile phone
• Communication experts – activated UGT in the study of mobile phone– provide better understanding of “why and how” we use
media• Katz, Blumler and Gurevitch (1973) – institutionalised UGT with the following assumptions;
• members of the audience are not passive but take an active role in interpreting and integrating media into their own lives
• audience are responsible for choosing media to meet their needs and fulfilment of specific gratifications
• UGT belongs to – social functionalism and– psychological communication perspectives (Luo, 2002)
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UGT usefulness in mobile phone studies• Understanding of gratifications – sought and obtained – clarify activity and activeness of media audiences
• Explains 3 attributes of new media like mobile phone (Quan-Haase and Young, 2010; Ruggiero, 2000).– interactivity • provide content in response
– demassification • control of the individual over the medium
– asynchroneity• storing of information
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Problem statement
• Aquaculture is scaling up without commensurate extension services
• Aquaculture production rose from 5% in 2001 to 32.5% in 2010
• Issues raised in UGT are critical – advisory services provision in aquaculture – functional mobile phone innovative platform
• Communication scholars focus on young people • Limited application of UGT in mobile phone studies
among farmers particularly aquaculture• Gap in literature on mobile phone investigation among
aquaculture farmers
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Justification for the studies
• Present study seeks to break the jinx and to unfold why fish farmers acquire mobile phone and use it in job activities
• New information services delivery are needed to support fast growing aquaculture sub-sector
• Provide baseline information needed to setup mobile phone innovative platform for aquaculture operators
• Provide clue to setup mobile phone platform model for aquaculture in on going WAAPP programme.
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Research questions
• What are the gratifications fish farmers’ sought and obtained from mobile phone?
• What is their mobile phone communication behaviour?
• What are their antecedents’ to subscribed mobile phone services?
• Will they be willing to pay and how much for aquaculture mobile phone advisory services?
• What is their personal profile?
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Objectives set to accomplish were• General objective– determine gratification sought and obtains from mobile
phone and it’s consequences on advisory services payment• Specific objectives were to: – Ascertain gratifications subjects sought and obtained from
mobile phone, – Determine subjects’ mobile phone communication behaviour, – Find out their antecedents on subscribership to mobile phone
services; – Verify their willingness to pay and how much for mobile
phone advisory services, and – Determine their personal profiles.
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Hypotheses
• Null hypothesis: There is no significant relationship between gratification sought and obtained from mobile with selected personal profiles in the States.
• H1. Alternative hypothesis: Significant relationship exists between gratification sought and obtained from mobile phone with selected personal profiles in the States.
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Area of Study and Methodology
• Area of Study – Study was carried out in Niger state– Located in guinea savannah, the north central geo-
political zone.– Lies on latitude 80o to 11o:30’ North and longitude 03o
30’ to 07o 40’ East– Blessed with hydroelectric power dams located at
New-Bussa, Jebba and Shiroro to boost aquaculture – Presence of Fisheries Research Institute and NCoS under
WAAPP – Renewed interest in aquaculture but weak extension
services
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Methodology• Secondary information collected from Minna, Bida and
New-Bussa put the population of fish farmers around 1000• Sample size for the study was contact fish farmers with ADP
and NIFFR estimated at 250• For the study, 44% of sample size i.e. 110 were randomly
selected as respondents from Minna, New-Bussa & Bida zones .
• Instrument for data collection was semi-structured questionnaire
• Face validated by experts in agricultural extension • Cronbach Alpha values of 0.70 coefficient was obtained
which confirmed instrument reliable
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Measurement of variables and data analysis• Variables were measured at
– Nominal (Yes-1; No-0)– Ordinal (No-0; Low-1; High-2) – Interval (state age in years)
• Categorization of scores: – Low < 50– High> 50
• Data analysis• Primary data was generated through face to face interview by
enumerators in 2013• Analysed with descriptive tools
– frequency, mean, percentage, standard deviation • Inferential tool
– Pearson Product Moment of Correlation • Results were presented in tables, figures, charts
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Result and Discussions
Caller tone Music Joke News alert Love message
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Figure 1: Respondents' atecedent to subscribed mobile phone services
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Tried
Stopped
Still use
Adopted paid services
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Table 1: Responses on gratification sought to acquire mobile phone (%)
Gratifications sought No Low High
Socialization 12 43 45
Job Accomplishment 6 26 68
Connected to people 4 15 81
Time management 46 22 32
Mobile & Accessible 2 2 96
security 40 30 30
Boost image 31 39 30
Categorization
High 57%
Low 43%
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Table 2: Job related gratifications obtained in aquaculture practice