Contribution of Urban Vegetable Farmers to Food Security: The Case of the Akinyele Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria

Badmus, M. A.; Olufolaji, AD

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2013.1007.97

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“…Majority being farmers is in consonance with the assertion of [18] that agriculture engages about 75% of people in most developing nations. Similarly [19] noted that agriculture as a sector is dominated by small holdings farming families, with most of them residing in rural areas.…”

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Socio-economic Status Categories of Rural Dwellers in Northern Nigeria

Adegboye¹

2016

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In other to provide information for inference on certain characteristics and behavioural tendencies of the rural dwellers in the northern Nigeria, this study was conducted to find out the socioeconomic status categories of rural dwellers' in the area. Random sampling technique was used to select 390 respondents from 30 villages in 3 of the northern Nigerian states. Interview schedule was used to collect data for the study. Majority of the respondents (58.9%) were between 31 and 50 years of age, male (52.6%), married (89.5%), educated (84.6%), farmers (73.1%) and low income earners (63.6%). The result also shows that 50.0% and 42.3% were in low and middle SES categories respectively. Significant relationship at p<0.05 existed between education (χ 2 = 94.09), occupation (χ 2 = 483.63) and socio-economic status of respondents. Similarly, correlation was discovered between age (r = 0.33, p = 0.00) and socio-economic status of respondents. In conclusion, half of the rural dwellers were in low socio-economic status category and only very few attained high socio-economic status category. Since there was significant relationship between education, occupation and socio-economic status, any improvement in the two variables will lead to improvement in socio-economic status of the rural dwellers.

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Socio-economic Status Categories of Rural Dwellers in Northern Nigeria

Adegboye¹

2016

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“…They serve as roughage, which promote digestion, and prevent constipation. Vegetable crops not only improve the nutritional quality of diets, the production of vegetables under irrigation and their marketing provides many people with employment in the dry season, it constitutes a major component of the country's food sector and it also occupies a significant position in the total per capita calorie intake of most Nigerians (Badmus and Olufolaji, 2013 Meena and Punjabi (2012) asserted that the assessment of the adoption of the technologies have moved from just using dichotomous choice to examining the intensity of adoption, addressing the simultaneity of adoption of different components of a technology package, and contextualizing adoption decisions within social, cultural and institutional environments. Over the last decade, the production of fresh tomatoes in Nigeria has grown by 25% from 1.8 million tonnes to an estimated 2.3 million tonnes.…”

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Smallholder farmers’ perception on tomato (solanum lycopersicum) seedling technologies in the north west zone of Nigeria

2021

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The research was funded by Syngenta Foundation for sustainable Agriculture, Nigeria to ascertain Farmer’s perception on tomato seedlings technology in North West Zone of Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was employed for the selection of One hundred and ninety-five (195) producers of Tomato in Kano and Jigawa States. Data were collected with the aid of a questionnaire. Data obtained were analysed using mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, charts, and graphs. The results of the study revealed that the producers of tomato had a mean age of 38 years, majorly males (86%) with secondary school education (32%), married (88%) with mean household size of 11 persons, mean farming experience, vegetable experience and tomato production experience of 18, 13 and 12 years respectively, mean land cultivated 3ha and mean tomato farm size of 2ha. Maize, sorghum, and rice are the three most cultivated crops by the farmers with tomato and onions as major vegetables. Plum tomato (UTC) variety (34%) is the most widely cultivated during both dry and wet seasons. The study further revealed that 82% of the farmers used recycled seeds to produce seedlings, 88% of the farmers had no extension and advisory service training, 59% made use of seedlings for planting with Plum tomato (UTC) as the common variety, 95% are interested in buying and selling seedlings, and 98% propagated their seeds in the open field. Therefore, it is recommended from the study that public and private’s sector at all levels should strengthen extension service systems to increase farmers’ knowledge and understanding of new tomato production technology-through provision of tomato seedlings technology, frequent trainings and marketing demos establishment to showcase this new innovation, Seed companies should ensure that seed packages contain recommended agronomic practices for all round effectiveness.

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