Nelly Sang|Joseph Kipkorir Cheruiyot
Farmers’ Information Literacy and Productivity Performance of Smallholder Horticulture in a Highland Zone, Kenya
University of Kabianga|University of Kabianga
horticulture subsector contributes substantially kenyan economy smallholder productivity low study investigated role information literacy smallholder horticultural productivity performance lower highland zone belgut subcounty kericho county kenya study used descriptive crosssectional survey design data collected january april 2019 smallholder horticulture farmers previously participated program nalep belgut subcounty purposely selected interviewed data collected 31 respondents facetoface household interviews using pretested semistructured interview schedules analyzed using statistical package social sciences spss version 20 descriptive statistics utilized document farmers information sources associations attributes analyzed running goodman kruskals gamma somers findings indicated smallholder horticulture farmers obtained horticultural information mostly public extension also private companies ngosfbos mass media farmers farmers level formal education organizational skills accounting farming skills indicators information literacy showed moderate strength relationship productivity profitability gamma 0200 0563 showed mixed strength horticultural produce quality gamma 0138 0948somers delta showed similar patterns somers 0089 0684 four indicators information literacy amalgamated information literacy score evidence moderate strength monotonic relationship information literacy performance measured spearman rank correlation rs 29 571 p 001the study concludes farmers obtain horticultural information diverse sources information literacy contributes productivity profitability smallholder horticulture capacity building farmers information literacy recommended