This process enabled farmers to app

This process enabled farmers to apply the gained explicit knowledge to the farming systems. The findings showed that most farmers applied IK (86.7%; 157) received from tacit and print sources of knowledge to the farming systems, as compared to the IK received from ICTs (9.9%; 18). Given the fact that most IK was shared through oral communication rather than through print media and ICTs, these findings show that farmers mainly applied IK received from tacit sources as compared to explicit sources of knowledge and therefore indicate that the internalisation process was partially fulfilled. The present study indicated that farmers applied indigenous techniques from tacit and print sources for crop husbandry (63.1%; 99), new techniques and varieties (25.5%; 40) and animal husbandry (24.2%; 38)