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Developing a Precision-Based E-Marketing Application for Improved Adoption Among Traditional Farmers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Author(s): Dare E. Fatumo (Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Management and Commerce, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa), Solomon T. Owolabi (Disaster Management Training and Education Centre, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa), John T. Aduradola (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa)and Johanes A. Belle (Disaster Management Training and Education Centre, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)
Copyright: 2025
Volume: 17
Issue: 1
Pages: 25
Source title:
International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Rajeev Dwivedi (Eastern Washington University, USA)and Adilson Yoshikuni (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/IJESMA.373584
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Abstract
In this study, the authors aimed to create a region-specific e-marketing application tailored to farmers' and customers' satisfaction based on a technology acceptance model guided by service-dominant logic entwined with design science research methodology. They adopted exploratory research involving interviewing 104 and 42 farmers and users for a pre-installation and post-installation investigation in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The investigation showed that 86.5% of the population is educated with at least a school matric certificate, which is enormously correlated with farmers' willingness to adopt e-marketing apps (R2 = 0.782). The adequacy of the post-installation evaluation is confirmed by the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure (0.753) under the principal axis factoring, which also reported ease of data update, editing, ease of usage, and the overall impression of the app as the four principal factors that favor the app adoption. Inferentially, the e-marketing apps effectively connected farmers with buyers, providing an efficient virtual market solution.
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