Awareness and Level of Adoption of Aquaculture Management Techniques in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the awareness and level of adoption of aquaculture management techniques in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria. Purposive and random sampling techniques were adopted to select 60 fish farmers from the study area and data were collected from the fish farmers with the aid of well structured questionnaire administered to them face to face by the researchers and some trained enumerators. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as means score, percentage, tables, Likert scale and multiple regression analysis. The findings indicated that majority (60.00%) of the respondents were male, while 95.00% of the farmers were between the age of 21-60 years with 91.67% of the fish farmers educated and 61.67% of fish farmer are highly experienced with 6 years and above. The findings also revealed that majority of the farmers are aware of aquaculture management techniques in the study area with 70.00% getting information on these techniques from extension agents followed by 55.00% who relied on other fish farmers for relevant information about fish farming. The Likert scale result revealed that thirteen out of twenty – one aquaculture management techniques postulated were adopted while eight were not adopted implying that 61.90% of the postulated techniques were adopted by the fish farmers in the study area. The result of the regression analysis showed that level of awareness of techniques; access to credit facility and number of contact with extension agent were the three factors influencing adoption of aquaculture management techniques by the fish farmers in the study area. Lack of credits/ fund to adopt improved practice (75.00%), expensiveness of techniques (55.00%), complexity of techniques (55.00%), and lack of support from the government (51.67%), lack of adequate and proper information on these techniques (50.00%), lack of training (45.00%) and lack of awareness (33.33%) were identified as constraints affecting adoption of aquaculture management techniques in the study area. In conclusion, the study revealed that the farmers were aware and adopted good numbers of the aquaculture management techniques introduced to them The study recommends that farmers should establish cooperative society so that they can pool their resources and knowledge together in solving most of the problems identified.

Analysis of the profitability of poultry egg production in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

“…About 5% of the respondents had 400 -576 birds per pen while about 3% had 576 -750 birds per pen. This finding contradicts the finding of Ijah, et al, (2020) who found out that the number of birds per pen in their study area ranged between 301 -400 birds per pen. The study also revealed that more than half, about 57% of the respondents had access to credit facilities while about 43% did not have any access to credit facilities.…”

“…This indicated that the males were more involved in poultry egg production in the study area than their female counterparts. This finding is in line with the finding of Ijah, et al, (2020) who found out that majority; 76.7% of the poultry egg producers in their study area were male. The result further supported Oluyemi, et al, (2020) who stated that the distribution of poultry egg farmers according to gender revealed that 81.7% were males while 18.3% were females.…”

Progress on Drinking Water Quality Monitoring in the Northern Part of Nigeria: A Catalyst to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

“…Parameters such as temperature, pH, conductivity, colour, TDS, TSS, turbidity, etc were all reported to be within the acceptable limit (Iliyasu et al, 2021;Magaji and Abimbola, 2020;Ogah and Ukaegbu, 2019;Bello et al, 2017;Uba et al, 2017;Bello et al, 2018;Mustapha et al,2021). The water conforms to the physicochemical parameters standard set by WHO and SON (Table 1) but requires a serious treatment of biological and radiological, as well as heavy metals contamination which could be more harmful to people (Bwadi et al, 2021;Abba et al 2020;Ijah et al, 2020;Badejo et al, 2017;Olatunji et al, 2015;Aremu et al 2014;Giwa et al 2014;Udiba et al 2013). The majority of the water consumed in northern Nigeria (55.74%) was reported to be unsuitable for consumption (Raji et al, 2010;Adabara et al, 2011;Abubakar and Adekola, 2012;Garba et al, 2012;Amadi et al, 2013;Garba et al, 2013;Isa et al, 2013;Sabo et al, 2013, Omole, 2013Abdullahi et al, 2016a;Abdullahi et al, 2016b;Adekola et al, 2016;Jabbo et al, 2016;Unique et al, 2016;Sojobi, 2016;Amoo et al, 2018;Abdulsalam et al, 2019;Adesakin et al, 2020;Abubakar, 2021).…”