Characteristics Of Respondents During Ict Utilization

4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 4.1 Characteristics of Respondents This sub-section presents the description and discussion of the characteristics of respondents. Respondents were asked to state their social-economic characteristics such as sex, age, education, years of their research experience, employment status and their research area of specialization. Results indicates that 60.94%(39) were males agriculture researchers and 39.06%(25) were females which shows that males are more dominant in agriculture research activities than females .65.62%(42) had age distribution ranging from 21-40 years with majority of them having completed MSc. Degrees i.e 45.31%(29) as the highest level of education which indicates a high level of literacy among†¦show more content†¦Age in years 21-40 42 65.62 41-50 13 20.31 51-60 6 9.38 60 3 4.69 3. Highest Level of Education completed Diploma 6 9.38 Bachelors 21 32.81 Masters 29 45.31 Phd 8 12.50 4.Years of Research experience 1-7 32 50.00 8-14 19 29.69 15-21 6 9.38 22-30 6 9.38 30 1 1.56 5.Employment Status Permanent 40 62.50 Contract 19 29.69 Visiting 5 7.81 4.2 Agriculture research activities conducted in Tanzania Table 5 shows different agriculture research activities conducted in the selected ARIs in Tanzania. Results indicates that researchers are confined in farming system and extension with 50.57%(32) followed by crop and soil science management with 39.68(25) and food science technology with38.10%(23).This results is the justification of the National Agriculture Policy (2013) goals and other public-private partnership initiatives by the Government of Tanzania which aim to enhance crop productivity and profitability in a sustainable manner in order to ensure food security and poverty reduction. In addition, results also indicate that Tanzania through ARIs is committed to strengthen pest and disease surveillance as well as to provide system and control mechanisms in agriculture activities (URT, 2013). However, the results show that ARIs are diversified into different areas of agriculture research activities in order to complement their major mandate which were established to undertake. Table 5: Research Activities conducted by Researchers in Tanzania