Assessment of dry season garden egg production among small-scale farmers in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria

Omotesho, O. A.; Muhammad-Lawal, A.; Amolegbe, Khadijat Busola; Abubakar, T.

doi:10.2298/jas1701089o

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“…The result also reveals that all 100% of the farmers were male. This finding conform Olubunmi et al (2017) who reported that all the respondents were male in the study area. In addition, majority of the farmers obtained one form of formal education or the other, implying that the farmers were literate and literacy may help them in decision-making as well as adopting improve practices.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…This finding is in agreement with Petros and Yishak (2017) who reported that farm size and labour had significant influence on cabbage production at P<0.05 and P<0.01, respectively. Olubunmi et al (2017) also reported that farm size and fertilizer had positive coefficient and significant influence on garden egg production at P<0.001 and P<0.05, respectively in Edu Local Government Area, Kwara State, Nigeria. The coefficient of agrochemicals and depreciation on assets had negative signs and not significant implying that increase in those variables may leads to decrease in output.…”

Section: Factors Influencing Cabbage Output In the Study Areamentioning

confidence: 87%

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Factors Influencing Irrigated Cabbage (Brassica Oleraceae) Production in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria

Bose¹,

Hamza²

2019

JASD

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The study was conducted to examine the factors influencing irrigated cabbage production in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to select a total of 100 farmers for the study. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result shows that all (100%) of the farmers were male and 35.7% of cabbage farmers were youth with average age of 35.6 years. The result further reveals that all (100%) of the respondents were male and majority (69.4%) of the farmers were literate who obtained various form of formal education. The average farm land cultivated was 1.5 hectares and 74.5% of the farmers acquired their inputs from the market. Majority (80.6%) of the farmers sourced water from the river/stream and used pumping machine for the irrigation. The result also shows that most (93.9%) of the farmers adopted treated and improved seeds technology. The result revealed that quantity of seeds, labour, fertilizer and farm size had positive coefficients and significantly influenced cabbage output. The R2 was estimated at 0.398 which implies about 40% of the variation in output of cabbage production was explained by explanatory factors included in the model. The R2 was estimated at 0.398 which implies about 40% of the variation in output of cabbage production was explained by explanatory factors included in the model. This is not by chance as justify by F-value of 10.027 and significant at P<0.001, indicating combine effect of independent variables on the total output. The study recommends that farmers should be encouraged to form cooperative societies to obtain input resources collectively and enjoy group marketing of cabbage. The use of more improved irrigation technologies is also recommended in order to boast cabbage production for high income.

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Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of Respondentssupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Factors Influencing Cabbage Output In the Study Areamentioning

confidence: 87%

Factors Influencing Irrigated Cabbage (Brassica Oleraceae) Production in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria

Bose¹,

Hamza²

2019

JASD

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“…Descriptive statistics such as frequency, mean and percent were employed to describe the socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents and constraints associated with rice production as used by Adams (2018) and Usman (2018) and gross margin and net farm income technique were used to analyzed the profitability as used by Omotesho et al (2010) andAbdullah (2012). It is mathematically given as:…”

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Profitability Analysis of Rice Production in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Nigeria

2023

JAEESS

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he study analyzed the Profitability of Rice Production in Hong Local government Area of Adamawa State, Nigeria. A multi stage random sampling technique was used to sample 188 rice farmers. Data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics for the socio-economic characteristics while gross margin technique and net farm income were used to analyze the profit. The result revealed that rice production is a viable venture as farmers earned a gross margin and net farm income of N68,509.40/ha and N59,152.01/ha respectively. It was further revealed that majority (70.74%) of the respondents were male, 69.68% were within the age of 31-50 years, 68.62% were married, majority (80%) of the farmers having a large household size, 76% of the farmers have attained one form of education or the other and 76.6% of the respondents had farm size ranging from 0.1-1.5ha. Also, the major constraints that farmers encountered were high cost of labour, high cost of inputs, inadequate capital, land fragmentation and inadequate new technology. The study recommends the need for government support in providing usefull intimation that can facilitate farmers’ access to prevailing of price of rice, farmers to be given proper orientation and/or basic trainings in major farm management techniques and with the constraints confronting rice farmers and also there is need for both governmental and nongovernmental organizations to grant soft loan to rice farmers to enable them addressed some of the constraints.

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“…The socio-economic characteristics includes; age, sex, marital status, farm size, household size, farming experience, labour availability have influence in vegetable crops productivity. Olubunmi et al (2017) in their studies of assessment of dry season garden egg production among small-scale holder farmers in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria reported that 100% of the farmers were male, 28.40% had age range of between 26-36 years, 80.00% were married, 91.70% had Islam as their religion, 31.75 had quaranic education, 47.70% had farming experience between 6-10 years .Similarly, 46.70% had household size of between 6-10 persons, 65% had farm size less than 0.51 ha and 76.60% had farming as their major occupation. Rahiel et al (2018) in their study on the assessment of production potential and postharvest losses of fruits and vegetables in Northern Region of Ethiopia.…”

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Analysis of Socio-Economic Characteristics and Post-Harvest Loss Storage Facilities Used by Vegetable Crops Value Chain Actors in Adamawa State, Nigeria

Sani, M. H.,

Kadau, R.,

Sani, R. M.

et al. 2023

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The study was carried out on analysis of socio-economic characteristics and post-harvest loss storage facilities used by vegetable crops value chain actors in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 526 respondents (210 farmers, 89 wholesalers, 128 retailers and 99 processors). Data were collected using structured questionnaire and analysed using descriptive statistics. The results showed that majority (96.70%) of the vegetable tomato, pepper and okra farmers were female, about 98% were male wholesalers,76.60% were male retailers and at processors level, majority (78.80%) were male. The marital status showed that, 90.50% of the farmers were married, for the wholesalers, 97.80% were married, for the retailers about 90% were married and at processors level, 86.90% were married. The results also, revealed that, 66.70% of the farmers were into farming as their major occupation. Similarly, 33.70% of the wholesalers were engaged in marketing of different types of vegetable crops as their occupation and 52.30% of the retailers were into marketing of different crops. Mean age of farmers was 40.20 years with minimum age of 19.00 years and maximum age of 68.00 years with a standard deviation of 9.90. For the wholesalers’, the mean age was 44.50 years, the maximum and minimum years were 73.00 years and 22.00 years, respectively, within a standard deviation was 10.25. The minimum household size is 1.00 and maximum is 22.00 persons with a standard deviation is 4.26. Similarly, for the wholesalers, the result shows that the household size was 8 persons with a minimum of 1 and maximum of 32 persons with standard deviation of 57.00. The minimum farming experience was 2.00 years and the maximum was 49.00 years with standard deviation of 7.29. Also, for the wholesalers, the result shows that, the mean marketing experience was 14.00 years with minimum of 3.00 years, maximum of 37.00 years and standard deviation of 8.12. The result revealed that, for the farmers, the mean annual income was ₦240,811.90 with the minimum annual income of ₦7,500 and maximum annual income of ₦1,100,000, with standard deviation of 217,09 .87. Also, for the wholesalers, the result shows that the mean annual income was ₦ 99,213.48 with minimum annual income of ₦20,000, and maximum annual income of ₦4,000,000 with standard deviation of 145,909.79. The findings showed that 72.86% of the farmers used open field (or open place) to store their harvested vegetable crops usually under tree shades temporarily before taken it to the market for sale. The mean distance that will take farmers to sell their vegetable crops was 16.89 km with standard deviation of 0.34 and range of 2.00. The study concluded that it takes a minimum of 1.00 day and a maximum of 2.00 days with the mean of 1.32 day for the retailers to sell their vegetable crops immediately when they purchased to consumers. It was recommended for provision of sustainable good storage facilities to the actors in the post-harvest chain by the government and stakeholders.

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Assessment of dry season garden egg production among small-scale farmers in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria

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Factors Influencing Irrigated Cabbage (Brassica Oleraceae) Production in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria

Factors Influencing Irrigated Cabbage (Brassica Oleraceae) Production in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria

Profitability Analysis of Rice Production in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Nigeria

Analysis of Socio-Economic Characteristics and Post-Harvest Loss Storage Facilities Used by Vegetable Crops Value Chain Actors in Adamawa State, Nigeria

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