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4.3 Determinants of Mobile Phone use in receiving agricultural information
In order to estimate the contributing factors on the use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information binary logistic regression analysis was used which is shown in Table 4.14
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
Mobile user Mobile non-user Total Category Number of farmers Category Percent
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Table 4.10 Binary logistic regression coefficients of contributing factors related to the use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information
Overall percentage of correct prediction = 56.7%
Omnibus test of model coefficient = 125.327**
Cox and Snell R2 = 0.648 Nagelkerke R2 = 0.869
Table 4.14 shows that level of education, on farm income and expensiveness were the important contributing factors (significant at the 5% level of significance). The data in Table 4.14 test the final null hypothesis: There is no relationship between the selected characteristics (age, farm size, off farm income, organizational participation, innovativeness, cosmopoliteness, attitudes towards mobile phone use and ease of use) and the probability of use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural Dependent
Variable
Independent
variable B S.E Wald Sig. Exp (B)
Use of mobile phone by the
farmers in receiving agricultural information
Age -.002 .043 .002 .965 .998
Education .599 .303 3.902 .048* 1.820
Farm size -.919 1.043 .777 .378 .399
On farm income .014 .007 4.083 .043* 1.014 Off farm income .003 .006 .228 .633 1.003 Organizational
participation -.536 .309 2.998 .083 .585 Innovativeness -.427 .307 1.937 .164 .653 Cosmopoliteness -.058 .311 .035 .851 .943 Attitude towards
mobile phone use -18.820 1093
9.01 .000 .999 .000
Ease of use 26.640 1093
9.01 .000 .998 .017
Expensiveness 2.523 1.093 5.323 .021* 12.463 .
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information. In order to assess which factors, contribute to the use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information, Binary logistic regression analysis was used. The analysis suggests that the respective authority should consider the respondents’ level of education, on farm income and expensiveness for increasing the use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information.
The Cox and Snell R2 = 0.648 of the variation in the respondents changed the probability of use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information can be attributed 64% to their respondents’ level of education, on farm income and expensiveness. However, each predictor may explain some of the variance in respondents’ use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information simply by chance. Besides, the overall percentage of correct predictness is 56.7% and the omnibus test of model coefficient is 125.327 which is significant at 1% level (Table 4.15). These findings indicate that, the model is valid.
4.3.1 Determinants of mobile phone use in receiving agricultural information
The contribution of education on the probability of use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information by testing the following null hypothesis;
“There is no contribution of education in the probability of use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information”.
Based on p value and the direction of coefficient value of the concerned variable of the study under consideration the following observations were made.
a. The contribution of the education was significant at 5% level. So, the null hypothesis could be rejected.
b. The direction between education and the use of mobile phone is positive.
Based on the direction of coefficient value it can be said that a farmer with more education increased the probability of using mobile phone in receiving agricultural information. Moreover, the odd ratio value (1.82) indicates a farmer with high
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education has 1.82 times higher probability of using mobile phone in receiving agricultural information. Education enhances the abilities of the farmers at short time to use mobile phone in receiving agricultural information problems.
4.3.2 Determinants of mobile phone use in receiving agricultural information
The contribution of on farm income on the probability of use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information by testing the following null hypothesis;
“There is no contribution of on farm income on the probability of using mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information”.
The p value of the concerned variables was found .043. The following observations were made on the basis of the value of the concerned variable of the study under consideration.
a. The contribution of on farm income was significant at 5% level. So, the null hypothesis could be rejected.
b. The direction between on farm income and the use of mobile phone is positive.
Based on the direction of coefficient value it can be said that a farmer with more on on farm income increased the probability of using mobile phone in receiving agricultural information. Moreover, the odd ratio value (1.014) indicates a farmer with high on farm income has 1.014 times higher probability of using mobile phone than the others who have less on farm income. On farm income enhances the abilities of the farmers to purchase and use mobile phone which they can use in receiving agricultural information.
4.3.3 Deteminants of mobile phone use in receiving agricultural information
The contribution of expensiveness on the probability of use of mobile phone in receiving agricultural information by testing the following null hypothesis; “There is
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no contribution of expensiveness in the probability of using mobile phone in receiving agricultural information”.
The p value of the concerned variables was found .021. The following observations were made on the basis of the value and coefficient of the concerned variable of the study under consideration.
a. The contribution of expensiveness was significant at 5% level. So, the null hypothesis could be rejected.
b. The direction between expensiveness and the probability of using mobile phone is positive.
Expensiveness was the highest contributory factor on use of mobile phone by the farmers in receiving agricultural information. The farmers who thought that mobile phone is expensive had probability to use this tool. The finding is contradict with generalization. However, some farmers commented that despite expensiveness they should use mobile for getting information timely and conveniently.
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SUMMERY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION This chapter presents the summery of findings, conclusions and recommendations of the study.