Enhancing farmers’ uptake of digital technologies through empirical research, innovation and policy intervention (EFUDTRIPI)

Peer-reviewed journal article - 18pp

Enhancing farmers' uptake of digital technologies through empirical research, innovation and policy intervention (EFUDTRIPI)

Several firms in Ghana are using digital technologies to provide services in the agricultural sector in the form of extension information, data capture, market linkages, and financial and product traceability services. These services are not well connected and coordinated to create synergies among critical agricultural actors to ensure that job opportunities in the agricultural sector for youth and women are attractive. The situation leads to low adoption of the technologies by farmer groups, limited incentives for agricultural digital service providers to improve their service delivery, as well as limited resources to effectively scale up such digital services. There is also poor internet connectivity in some farming communities and the seemingly high cost of internet service which makes it expensive for the farmers to patronise the service.

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