Authors : Salih Hajem Glood, Sajad Muhil and Barakat Saad Ibrahim
Abstract: The rapid evolution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has now impacted on people’s daily lives of developing countries which led to provide positive results in different sectors of the community. This study aims to investigate about the main purpose of use of mobile phones; mobile phones saved time, money and Internet use on mobile phone. The study used quantitative method by distributing 350 questionnaires to respondents in the Federations of Farm Associations (FFAs) of the Southern Region in Iraq. Besides that, the collected data was analysed using SPSS 21 Version. The findings showed that 93.6% of the respondents have own’s mobile phones while 80% of the respondents use mobile phone to contact with their friends. Furthermore, it implied that 95.6% of the respondents did not contact with any agriculture officer about their crop issues. The result revealed that 96% of the respondent did not search agricultural information by mobile phone about market prices regarding their good and services. While only 3.2% of the respondents seek to search agricultural information about their crops and prices. It implied that the respondents who have education were high interested to get the agricultural information and only 0.8% of the respondents some time search agricultural information about their crops and prices. Result showed that large majority of the respondents did not use mobile phone for getting agriculture information and similarly internet not uses to get information regarding agriculture and crop prices. It need to provide awareness among farmers about proper use of mobile technologies for increase the agriculture product and increase their income by mobile phones in their working places.
Salih Hajem Glood, Sajad Muhil and Barakat Saad Ibrahim, 2019. Role of using Mobile Phone among Iraqi Farmers for Agriculture Development. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 5495-5500.