Author(s): Ejemeyovwi J., Akhigbemidu A, Agharevba W., Arome V, Akaraiwe O, Ogunlusi T, Owuama. I.

Abstract: This paper empirically examines the role of ICT on agriculture by exploring the application of the theoretical prescriptions of the diffusion model to crop production, an agriculture subsector from 1985 - 2014. This research postulates that crop production can be achieved by increasing the availability, reducing the cost of ICT and utilising ICT in the crop production value-chain process. The OLS results showed that internet utilisation has a positive impact on crop production; mobile cell subscription has a negative impact in the short run while the correlation results showed that ICT adoption and crop production have a strong positive association.

Keywords: ICT adoption, Crop production, Correlation Analysis, and OLS.

DOI: 10.24001/ijels.2.6.1