CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

According to the business dictionary, information is defined as a “Data that has been verified to be accurate and timely. It is specific organized for a purpose and presented within a context that gives its meaning and relevance which can lead to an increase in understanding and decrease in uncertainty. Reits (2010) defines information that when experienced at the conscious level as a question, gives rise to a search for an answer, information is a fact and knowledge needed to answer some questions faced by people in their daily life.

The world Encyclopedia defines information is any kind of event that affects the state of a dynamic system. The valve of information lies solely on its ability to affect a behaviour, decision or outcome. A piece of information is considered valueless, if after receiving it, and things remain unchanged. Agriculture play an essential role in everyday human activities ranging from the provision of primary needs like food, clothing and shelter to secondary needs like construction, manufacturing etc. while much of the world is still stuck in subsistence agriculture majorly in remote part of the country, a little proportion of agriculture is just being practiced under the light of civilization and mode4rnization. That is to say farmers in the remote part of the country need to be constantly fed with information, idea, knowledge and skills developed from the Research Institute for better Farming Practice and eventual increase in yield. Information might be inform of new technology like storage facilities, better farming system like mechanization, access to credit facilities etc. for Agricultural information to be effective, after the information has been conveyed from the door, i.e. ministry of agriculture and the subordinate like research institute, Agricultural Development Project (ADP) etc to the receiver to the donor of the information must be accomplished.