Correlates of farmers’ use of information sources in Benue, Nassarawa and Plateau state, Nigeria

Abstract

Pearsom product moment correlation coefficient (r) was employed to ascertain the relationships between certain independent variables and three categories of information sources, namely, personal localite, personal cosmopolite and mass media sources. The results indicate that social participation, leadership, estimated annual income, farm income, yield, age, aspiration, knowledge and attitude are significantly related to one or more of the information sources. Additionally, radio, family members, village extension agents and direct observations constituted the major sources of information which were ranked first, second, third and fourth, respectively.