This indicates that ICT is a very useful tool in the dissemination of agricultural information to farmers especially in rural areas where cell phones have been embraced by both literate and illiterate farmers. Therefore ICT has become the most important tool in processing and disseminating agricultural information.In the same vein Bolarin & Ayanlade (2010)  maintained that mobile phones and computer systems are the most used and widely owned tools today by extension workers and their organizations. This is because, about 75% of the respondents surveyed by Bolarin & Ayanlade (2010) perceived themselves as frequent users of multimedia and other ICT tools.Other sources of information that are equally important, but less recognized are traditional sources. These include information emanating from colleagues,during weddings, naming ceremonies, burials, agricultural shows and festivals and in some cases through town criers (Aina, 1995) . Demiryurek et al.(2008)  argue that dairy farmers in Turkey use four categories of information all of which are traditional and relayed from family members. They are: extension workers,bato bucket posters and leaflets, family members and the electronic media. them, print materials have low usage due to their unavailability and illiteracy levels of most of the farmers in Tanzania.

Mass media also provides support for the growing involvement of farmers/producers and their organizations in the information dissemination arena.The rapid development of information technologies has profoundly changed the media landscape in African countries. Information and Communication Technology(ICT) is a term that combines computer and telecommunications technology in handling, acquiring, processing, storing and disseminating information(Chauhan, 2009; and Malhan, 2007)  . Information and Communication Technology is a general or an all-inclusive term that embraces all those technologies that are employed in collecting, storing, organizing and communicating information in various forms (Chisita, 2010) . ICT can become a keyenabler of the agricultural-food sector by making dynamic and real time global level exchange of data. As stated by Rao (2009: p. 492) , “Effective deployment of ICT can lead to increase in agricultural competitiveness through cuts in production and transaction costs, raising production efficiencies and farm incomes,conserving natural resources, and by providing more information, choice and value to stakeholders”. In using ICT successfully to support farmers and rural communities, the first step is to empower farming communities to define their own needs (Ballantyne, 2009: p. 356) .

With wider access to and use of ICT, the potentials of opening up of communication as well as sharing information would be enhanced so as to assist farmers, researchers, dutch bucket hydroponic extension workers and policy makers. It will also narrow the information gap that exists between farmers and the researchers because there will be a feedback (Ballantyne, 2009).Similarly, Renwick (2010) , pointed out that most of the small island nations are above the 100% or with some over 200% mobile phone penetration mark.This implies that many people had more than one cell phone and over 100% of the farmers used cell phones to receive agricultural information.This indicates that ICT is a very useful tool in the dissemination of agricultural information to farmers especially in rural areas where cell phones have been embraced by both literate and illiterate farmers.

Therefore ICT has become the most important tool in processing and disseminating agricultural information.In the same vein Bolarin & Ayanlade (2010)  maintained that mobile phones and computer systems are the most used and widely owned tools today by extension workers and their organizations. This is because, about 75% of the respondents surveyed by Bolarin & Ayanlade (2010) perceived themselves as frequent users of multimedia and other ICT tools.Other sources of information that are equally important, but less recognized are traditional sources. These include information emanating from colleagues,during weddings, naming ceremonies, burials, agricultural shows and festivals and in some cases through town criers (Aina, 1995) . Demiryurek et al.(2008)  argue that dairy farmers in Turkey use four categories of information all of which are traditional and relayed from family members. They are: extension workers, posters and leaflets, family members and the electronic media. There is a wide range of information sources.