Maize cob losses and their effects on the poverty status of maize farmers in Edo state, Nigeria

Okoror, O.T.; Ahmadu, J.

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“…The net income from the snail production business served as a basis for comparison with income from other productive activities. The gross margin as used by Okoror and Ahmadu (2017) is given as:…”

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Contribution of snail production to income status of snail farmers in Edo South, Edo State, Nigeria

Ahmadu¹,

Ida-Ogbomo²,

Oyoboh³

2021

Agro-Sci.

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This study examined the contribution of snail production to the income status of snail farmers in Edo South Senatorial District, Edo State, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were to describe the socio-economic characteristics of snail producers, estimate the costs and returns of snail production in the study area, examine the effect of snail production on income of snail farmers and identify the constraints to the production of snail in the study area. A two-stage sampling procedure comprising purposive and snowballing sampling techniques was employed to select 108 respondents for the study. However, 100 respondents provided useful information that was used for the analysis. Data were collected using structured questionnaire. Analysis of data was done using descriptive statistics and budgetary techniques and t-test. The results indicated that the majority of the respondents were females (61%) with average age of 38 years. Most of them were married (81%) with average household size of five persons. They had average of eight years experience in snail rearing and most of them (88%) were literate. The results further showed that the business of snail production in the study area was profitable with gross margin, net profit and return on investment of ₦359,455.00, ₦ 339,533.00 and 2.04 per annum, respectively. Without income from this business, the snail farmers had average annual income of ₦1,377,519.00 from other sources of livelihood. With the addition of income from snail production, their average annual income increased to ₦1,717,052.00, representing 20% increase. This increase was significant at p < 0.05 (t-ratio = 5.02). Thus, snail production had made significant contribution to improving the income of the snail producers. It was recommended that the unemployed youths should go into the business of snail production in order to improve their income status.

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Contribution of snail production to income status of snail farmers in Edo South, Edo State, Nigeria

Ahmadu¹,

Ida-Ogbomo²,

Oyoboh³

2021

Agro-Sci.

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“…Still, the farm size, on-farm work hours, age, hours, leisure, farm assets' current value, and crop income reduced off-farm diversification, while the cooperative membership effect was not emphasized as would be addressed by this study. It is worth noting that the bulk of existing studies on livelihood diversification (such as Adepoju and Obayelu, 2013;Raphael et al, 2017;Pur et al, 2016;Ayantoye et al, 2017;Dilruba and Bidhan, 2016) generalized, while a few focused on crop farmers ( such as Okoror et al, 2019;Owusu et al, 2011;Ogbanje and Nweze, 2014;Kimengsi et al, 2019 ), without substantive counts of works focusing on livestock farmers (Xuhuan et al, 2019 focused on ruminant producers) hence, this study resolutely focused on livestock (poultry) farmers to bridge the existing wide research gap, in addition to providing strong empirical basis to better understand what the livelihood diversification situation is and as influenced by cooperative membership, and how to better exploit it or provide favorable interventions and necessary policy options. This research thereby sets out to investigate the level of cooperative performance and how cooperative membership influences livelihood diversification alongside some other imperative hypothesized determinant factors in South West Nigeria by answering the following empirical questions; How much are the cooperatives performing?…”

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Measuring The Causality on Cooperatives, Livelihood Diversification and Determinants among Poultry Farm Holders: A Case Study of South West Nigeria

Popoola,

Adebayo,

Abdullahi

2023

J. Econ. Impact

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Cooperative membership and livelihood diversification have been observed to influence households’ economic situations, while little is known about their interplays as a matter of mutual exclusivity when they both occur. This study was hence conducted to investigate the level of cooperative performance and how cooperative membership influences livelihood diversification alongside some other imperative hypothesized determinant factors, using primary data collected from 210 poultry farm holders in a multistage sampling process and analyzed with econometric, parametric, and nonparametric analytical estimators at 95 % confidence interval. Results showed that the majority of the cooperator respondents are satisfied with access to loans (72.38%), Loan repayment (67.62%), transportation (68.10%), marketing (67.14%), training (69.5%), patronage (70%), and Political interference (69.05%) while a relatively large proportion of the respondents (59.04%) are diversified, while a majority (89.52%) of this diversified category secondarily diversifies into non-farming activities. Also, the proportion of cooperator-diversified poultry farming households (59.41) narrowly exceeded the non-cooperator category (58.72); hence, further econometric analyses conducted showed that gender of household head, level of formal education, primary occupation, primary labour source, and cooperative membership negatively influenced livelihood diversification, but otherwise for multidimensional poverty, all significant at P?0.1, P?0.5%, P?0.01%, P?0.01%, P?0.01%, and P?0.1% probability levels accordingly. Econometric analyses of empirical data revealed that multidimensional well-being significantly increased livelihood diversification, which is offset by an increased level of formal education, cooperative membership, male-headed households, and dependence on family labour; hence, effective cooperative management be further upheld so as to maintain and or further improve the current cooperative performance level in order to cushion credit access constraints confronting agricultural activities. Furthermore, cooperative membership was found to negatively correlate with multidimensional poverty; hence, cooperative membership should be encouraged owing to the way it influences livelihood diversification to improve multidimensional welfare rating. Also, well-trained labour should be employed in order to increase managerial efficiency.

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Maize cob losses and their effects on the poverty status of maize farmers in Edo state, Nigeria

Cited by 2 publications

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Contribution of snail production to income status of snail farmers in Edo South, Edo State, Nigeria

Contribution of snail production to income status of snail farmers in Edo South, Edo State, Nigeria

Measuring The Causality on Cooperatives, Livelihood Diversification and Determinants among Poultry Farm Holders: A Case Study of South West Nigeria

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