INVESTIGATION INTO THE INFORMATION SHARING STRATEGIES OF FISH FARMERS IN ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Information sharing is one of the ways fish farmers adopt to have information that will be useful to them in boosting their activities. They also device ways to make it easy for sharing information among them, the activities of information sharing and sharing strategies help them in no small measure. The study investigated the Information Sharing Strategies of fish farmers in Adamawa State, Nigeria. The researchers used quantitative research methodology and survey design was adopted. The research instruments used was questionnaire. The population of the study was drawn from registered fish farmers with the Ministry of Environment in Adamawa State. (232) questionnaire was administered to them but only 216 of the retrieved questionnaires were found useful which was used to analyze this data. Descriptive analysis statistics was used to analyzed the data which the result shows that fish farmers in Adamawa State have sharing strategies among themselves. The findings of the study indicated that their information sharing strategies includes friends, neighbors, colleagues, community meetings, GSMs, festive gathering, religious gathering, associations, market gathering, workshops/seminars and conferences. Therefore, the researchers recommended that the Adamawa State government should make available more educators, extension workers, organize workshops, seminars and conferences since fish farmers indicated that they share ideas and information in such gathering to help boost their activities. Steady power supply should be provided to make powering of gadgets and devices like GSMs easier.