Assessment of Postharvest Information Needs of Maize Farmers in Kogi State, Nigeria

Adejo, P. E.; Okwu, Jacob Oto; Saliu, O. J.

doi:10.1080/10496505.2016.1221766

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“…Similarly, horticulture activities are more labor-intensive, time-consuming, and capital-intensive and may contribute to the low participation of female youth in horticulture agribusiness. This result disagrees with that of Adejo et al [34] in their study on the Assessment of Postharvest Management Information Needs of Yam Farmers in Kogi State, Nigeria. Their results found that gender has no significant effect on improved postharvest management technologies, probably because they have no access to information on those technologies.…”

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Assessment of Factors Influencing Youth Involvement in Horticulture Agribusiness in Tanzania: A Case Study of Njombe Region

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Involvement of youth in horticulture agribusiness has become a vital approach to create employment opportunities among the youth in Tanzania. This study aimed at examining the extent of youth participation and factors influencing youth involvement in horticulture agribusiness with a focus on innovations in post-harvest management (PHM). Data were collected from a sample of 576 male and female youth in Njombe region using a multi-stage random sampling technique. Data were analyzed using an ordered logit model and descriptive statistics. Results of the ordered logit analysis showed that primary school education, Form IV and above, management innovation, access to credit, good perception of horticulture for agribusiness and improved packaging materials positively and significantly influence youth involvement in horticulture agribusiness. Gender and land size had a negative and significant influence on youth involvement in horticulture agribusiness, as indicated by higher percentages of male youth (59%) participation in the horticulture agribusiness. Therefore, this study suggests increased investment in capacity development of the youth on PHM innovations and the development of rural infrastructure such as agro-processing and storage facilities by the government and private sector. Increasing the availability of improved packaging materials and provision of youth-friendly credit schemes could encourage youth in horticulture agribusiness.

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Assessment of Factors Influencing Youth Involvement in Horticulture Agribusiness in Tanzania: A Case Study of Njombe Region

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“…This means that involving in palm oil processing in the study area is faced with constrains of high cost of labour and transportation, poor transportation, price instability and poor information about the price and others. This result agrees with the findings of [21] who found lack of credit facilities, high cost of labour, lack of processing machines, harvesting problem, high cost of processing and palm fruit scarcity constituted the major problems confronting women palm oil processors in the study area. This implies that any intervention that would be applied to enhance the women palm oil processors' involvement in palm oil processing in the study area should be applied to solve the identified constraints in ascending order.…”

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Factors influencing women's involvement in palm oil processing in Ife North Local Government area of Osun State Nigeria

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Awotayo

2023

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The study assessed women's involvement in palm oil processing in Ife North Local Government Area, Osun State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 120 women palm oil processors. Primary data collected with the aid of wellstructured interview schedule were subjected to frequency counts, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Chi-square analysis. The results reveal that majority (73.3%) of the palm oil processors were married, with the mean age of 50.2±15.173 years and years of palm oil processing experience averaged 24.713+13.670. Oil drying, x̅=3.87, ranked 1st of all the processing activities the respondents were involved in. Close to half (47.5%) of the women palm oil processors were at a medium level of involvement. High cost of labour and transportation ranked 1st with a weighted mean score of x̅=3.04 of all the constraints. There was significant association between age (ch2=18.730, p=0.001), marital status (ch2=15.663, p=0.047), primary occupation (ch2=20.207, p=0.003), level of education (ch2=15.821, p=0.045), experience (ch2=16.607, p=0.034) and involvement in palm oil processing. The study concluded that there was medium level of involvement in palm oil processing among the women. It was recommended that governmental and non-governmental agricultural agencies should introduce modern method of palm oil processing to the women palm oil processors in the study area.

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“…It is also critical for the overall development of the agricultural sector [34,35]. The provision of agricultural information to farming communities should be needs-based to be effective [36]. According to Mtega, Ngoepe and Dube, [37], access to information is primarily dependent on the infrastructure required for its dissemination, which is characteristically unevenly distributed within and amongst countries, resulting in some farming communities being more information rich than others.…”

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Information Sources and Constraints to Climate Change Adaptation amongst Smallholder Farmers in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

2020

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With current global climate change conditions, the urgency to provide agricultural knowledge on adaptation has risen. The dearth of climate change information is one amongst many agricultural production challenges faced by the majority of rural farming communities. This study aimed to identify smallholder farmers’ sources of climate change information and constraints to their coping and adaptation. Descriptive statistical tools, mean scores and the ‘problem confrontation index’ (PCI) were used to assess and describe the study’s findings. Analysis revealed that public extension services play a minute role in rural farmers’ climate change knowledge; they get their information elsewhere. The most critical constraint to climate change coping and adaptation in the study area was lack of access to agricultural extension services.

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Assessment of Postharvest Information Needs of Maize Farmers in Kogi State, Nigeria

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Assessment of Factors Influencing Youth Involvement in Horticulture Agribusiness in Tanzania: A Case Study of Njombe Region

Assessment of Factors Influencing Youth Involvement in Horticulture Agribusiness in Tanzania: A Case Study of Njombe Region

Factors influencing women's involvement in palm oil processing in Ife North Local Government area of Osun State Nigeria

Information Sources and Constraints to Climate Change Adaptation amongst Smallholder Farmers in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

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