Title: Information Seeking Behavior of Poultry Farmers in Kano State Nigeria
Author(s): Mujahid Sunusi Abdullahi
Publication Year: 2020; Volume 15, Issue 1, pages 1-7

Information is vital in the survival and development of human activities. With the abundance information sources and resources in different format information seekers are left to search through various resources to meet their information need. Libraries internet and extension services veterinary services are medium of communication poultry farmers use to exchange information. This research describes the results of a survey carried out on poultry farmers in Kano State to identify the information seeking behavior of poultry farmers. The instrument for collection of data was questionnaire. Data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings from the poultry farmers shows that information seeking behavior can be oral communication with friends or neighbors consulting veterinary doctors and extension agents. Ninety 90 of the respondents indicated that they always have access to information and that the information found is very relevant to their poultry farming. Additionally inadequate fund lack of electricity poor network connectivity among rural farmers and inadequate extension agents and veterinary doctors were identified as major challenges affecting the information seeking of poultry farmers in Kano State. In order to address the challenges the following were recommended for the study provision of agricultural libraries in all the forty four 44 local government areas of Kano State provision of adequate extension agents and veterinary doctors constant power supply and internet connectivity and good government policy that would support the poultry farming etc among others .