Determinants of Risk Status of Small Scale Farmers in Niger State, Nigeria

Abstract

Aims: To ascertain the risk status of farming households and whether the risk status is accentuated by some factors. The specific objective is to determine the relationship between their risk status and socio-economic characteristics and food security status in the study area.

Use of ICT in Securing Marketing Information among Small Scale Farmers in Niger State, Nigeria

“…It therefore means that the model is capable of showing and explaining the determinants of level of awareness of the respondents. This indication is also confirmed by the LRI of respondents, amount spent on purchase (+), farm size (+) and 0.5533 which is quite higher than that obtained by Nmadu et al [17], Rahji and Fakayode [19], Abadi ghadim and Pannell, [20] and Zepeda [21]. The model further shows that while number of years spent in formal education (+) and educational age (-) also determined the probability of high level of awareness significantly.…”

“…The final estimates were selected based on the variables that converged during iteration. The coefficients of the base outcome were then recovered in line with in line with Nmadu et al [17] …”

Sources of Risk and Management Strategies among Farmers in Rice Post Harvest Management in Niger State, Nigeria

“…The level of education contributes much for productivity, adoption of new technology and farming techniques. This agrees with the findings of Okoruwa et al (2002 ) and Nmadu, et al, (2012). Tables 1 revealed that The result in Table: 2 show the sources of risks experienced by the farmers in rice post harvest management.…”

Determinants of Rice Farmers’ Risk-attitudes in Rural Ghana: An Operational Domain Scale Approach

“…Hao (2010) elaborated on the fact that there are great differences among the three types of risk-behaviour categories in farmer's supply response. Nmadu et al (2012), indicated that farmers' risk attitudes are major determinants of the rate of diffusion of new technologies among them and the outcome of rural development programs. They further noted with reference from (Adebusuyi, 2004;Alderman, 2008) that risks cause farmers to be less willing to undertake activities and investments that have higher expected outcomes but carry with them high risk of failure…”

“…A risk attitudinal scale with a set of questions relevant to farmers' farm-related decisions was used to identify the risk status of the farmers. This method of measuring the risk aversion of the farmers was adapted from Nmadu et al (2012) who presented a set of ten questions to the farmers which were related to their risk seeking behaviour. Following from that and applying to this study, each farmer was made to choose his response to the questions from five (5) indicating strongly disagree to one (1) indicating strongly agree.…”