Information and Communication Technologies' role in Livestock Production in Sierra Leone | Chapter 1 | Cutting Edge Research in Biology Vol. 5

 Livestock is an elemental part of the agriculture arrangement, providing a vital security guarantee of money and food for a solid proportion of the rural society, especially the poor and underprivileged. A reorientation of the production order toward more efficiency and a heightened devote effort to something quality is required to equal the rising demand for livestock-located products in two together local and international markets, as indicated by current trends in the livestock area. Advancements in information and ideas technologies (ICTs) have allowed for novel procedures of sharing and expanding news and knowledge throughout breeding communities, conceivably boosting livestock output. The study aims to evaluate the ICT devices approachable and used by livestock peasants and farmers’ ideas about the vital role of ICTs in reconstructing livestock farming in Sierra Leone. The study was conducted in six chiefdoms of the Koinadugu parish of Northern Sierra Leone. A semi-organized questionnaire was used to gather facts from 262 livestock farmers. The result shows that cellular telephone (Χ =4.63), radio (Χ ¯=4.51), internet (Χ ¯=4.23), CD-ROM/VCD/DVD (Χ ¯=3.76), TV set (Χ ¯=3.69), and video performer (Χ ¯=3.52) were the ICT devices that livestock ranchers always access. Mobile phone (Χ ¯=4.53), wireless (Χ ¯=4.21), television Χ ¯ =3.74), CD-ROM/VCD/DVD (Χ ¯=3.68), internet (Χ ¯=3.57), and broadcast player (Χ ¯ =3.51) are bovine animals farmers' most frequently secondhand ICT devices. The result also discloses that advertising a commodity, contacting potential buyers, reconstructing access to a new market, providing news on food processing and protection, increasing crop potential, providing information on market prices, and expediting payment online for animals raised on a farm products are the strongly seen role of ICTs in bovine animals marketing. Low level of education, lack of power, low income of laborers, high ideas costs, language barrier, and lack of ICT abilities, among others, were the main restraints associated with the access and use of facts and communication electronics among livestock laborers. Therefore, the government should specify continuous power or auxiliary power for detached farmers to use ICTs for livestock administration activities and promote tenable livestock progress.

Author(s) Details:

Abdul Rahman Sesay,
Njala University, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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