Perception of Agricultural Programmes on Amuludun Radio in Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the perception of farmers towards agricultural programmes of Amuludun 99.1 FM station in Oyo state. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 180 respondents. Interview schedule was used to collect data, while descriptive and inferential statistics were used for analyses. Most (71.1%) of the farmers listen to radio more than 4 hours daily. Weighted scores revealed that the programmes mostly listened to were Agbeloba (232.8), followed by Arokobodunde (230.7), Itoju nkan osin (228.8), Ere agbe (221.6) and Isebuse (189.8) in that order. The study also found that 56.0% of the respondents were favourably disposed to the agricultural programmes. Significant relationship existed between farmers' perception and listenership to Amuludun FM agricultural programmes (r = 0.155, p < 0.05). The study concluded that the respondents were generally favourably disposed to agricultural programmes aired on Amuludun FM.