Smallholder Rice Farmers’ Perceptions on Usefulness of Mobile-Phone Technology in Bahi District.

Information has always been an important component in agricultural development processes [1]. Irrespective of their location and type of agricultural enterprises, farmers’ most commonly searched information has been the know-how aspects, which give them fundamental agricultural facts. For instance, farmers may want to know the best cultivation practices, sources of improved seeds and or animal feeds, amount and type of inputs to use, also contextual information such as weather, as well as market information, including prices, demand indicators, and other logistical information [2,3]. Essentially, poor access to agricultural information has been a potential explanation for the limitation of agricultural performance in developing countries and has made farmers vulnerable to several risks, both during farming, transportation and marketing of their crops [4-6].One major explanation associated with farmers’ poor access to agricultural information has been the under-utilization of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) [7-9]. Limited access to agricultural information affects the usefulness of various agricultural technologies that directly relate to agricultural performance.