Quantitative data was collected through targeted questionnaires administered at MOA ministry of agriculture. Questionnaire items can be presented as either close-ended questions or open-ended questions. In this research the questionnaires comprised open-ended questions. The reason the researcher selected the open-ended questions was that these questions help to obtain detail information about the current situation in the sector and effectiveness of integrating agricultural services.
Questionnaire items for IT experts and other expert in MOA had 20 items. Questionnaire items for IT experts were used for conducting the prototype evaluation sessions. Accordingly, Questioners was given to 20 carefully selected domain experts from the department of Information Technology and marketing department of MOA and qualitative feedback data was retrieved from the prototype evaluation session. Details pertaining to the evaluation questions and the analysis results can be found in the next chapter.
