Agricultural information is very important as it helps small-scale farmers with necessary information to make right decisions and improve agricultural productivity. Small-scale farmers in many countries including Tanzania are surrounded by many factors which influence access to agricultural information. Several studies have been done to examine these factors, however most of them were conducted in a number of years ago. This study which was conducted in year 2024, aimed to examine the factors influencing oil palm small-scale farmers’ access to agricultural information in Kigoma-Ujiji Municipal Council, Tanzania. It specifically examined the following factors: personal (farmer) factors, cultural factors (language barriers), and situational factors. These factors involved gender, age, educational level, sources of income, farm size, language barriers, limited information infrastructures, cost of accessing information, relevancy of information, and outdated information. The study was both descriptive and explanatory following a cross-sectional approach. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire by interviewing 120 purposively selected oil palm small-scale farmers from three wards: Kagera, Kibirizi, and Businde. Checklists of questions were used to conduct the key informant interviews. The collected data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 20 software. A binary logistic regression model was used to determine factors influencing oil palm small-scale farmers’ access to agricultural information. The study found that factors had different degrees of influence on respondents’ access to agricultural information. Key findings indicated that about 64.2% of the respondents had no access to agricultural information, and the variables that significantly influenced the oil palm small-scale farmers’ access to agricultural information were age (β= -0.152; p=0.013), gender (β= -1.942; p=0.027), educational level (β= 4.264; p=0.004), and cultural factors (β=2.671; p=0.002). This study recommends strong efforts by local government, central government, and stakeholders (NGOs) to improve access to agricultural information.
