The study assessed the perception of women farmer’s household’s heads on the effectiveness of extension service delivery in Borno state, Nigeria. Both primary and secondary source of information were used for the study. Multistage sampling technique was employed for the study. Structured questionnaire was administered to 270 respondents as the sample size. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, Percentages, means, standard deviation and Likert type scales were used for data analysis. Extension had succeeded in changing traditional to modern farming practices alongside the Knowledge of; modern technologies (4.23), understanding research-based information (2.58), Attitude; less suspicious of scientific recommendations (3.88), more open to using modern technologies (3.43), Skills; more competent in the use of modern farming/ practices (2.58), local feeds formulation (3.09), selection of high valued enterprise (3.39), Aspiration; boast morale towards farming (2.6). Inadequate demonstration materials, inappropriate schedules for extension meetings, lack of cooperation by extension agents, were rated 1st and identified as the most critical problems to effective extension service delivery in the study area. The study recommended that, schedules of extension meetings should take into cognizance the schedule of women with regards to their household chores.
The study analysed the adoption of rice production technologies among women farmers in central agricultural zone of Bauchi State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select a total of 138 women rice farmer, structured questionnaires were administered to the respondents that provided the usable data for the analysis. The result revealed that majority (95%) of the respondents, were married. The mean age was 36 years, household size had a mean of 8 persons, the farming experience revealed, 12 years, majority (43.6%) had no formal education, some (32.5%) inherited their farm land and majority (50.4%) hired their labour. Furthermore, high yield, early maturity and marketability were the major factors that influence the adoption of rice production technologies in the study area. On the levels of adoption, seed, harvesting and fertilizer application had 94%, 91.8% and 99.9%, respectively. The major constraint to the adoption of rice production technologies includes inadequate finance (97.7%), high cost of labour (96.2%), and inaccessibility to modern milling machine (95.5%). The study concluded that high yield, early maturity and marketability were the major factors influencing adoption of rice production technologies among the respondents. The study therefore recommended that the women should be encourage to form cooperative societies in order to be able to obtain credit and acquire modern facilities for rice processing and capital for adopting more technologies.
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