The study examines the socio-economic determinant of youth poultry farmers’ adoption of selected biosecurity practices against avian-influenza (HPAI-A/H5N1) outbreaks in Jigawa State, Nigeria. A total of 120 respondents were selected through a multistage sampling procedure were used for the study. Majority (75.0%) were married, males (92.5%) with average age of 24 years. Average proportion (50.0%) has secondary education while below average (40.0%) has no formal education. Average monthly income is N26,075.00 and farming experience of 13 years. Mean: household size of 5 persons; flock size of 411 birds; membership of social group (91.7%) and no extension contact (84.2%). The respondents highly practiced vaccination of birds ( x = 1.000), constant cleaning of farm ( x = 1.167), hand washing with soap and water after toileting ( x= 1.492) and cleaning before restocking new birds ( x= 1.625) in cleaning. In the disinfection sub-components only; keeping of farm records ( x= 1.583), disinfection of equipment brought to the farm ( x= 1.667) and constant and periodic disinfection of equipments, poultry house and cloths ( x = 1.792) were highly practices while in segregation and traffic control sub-components, they highly practiced most of the activities except; employee restrictions ( x = 2.250), periodic visitation to ADP Office for training ( x = 2.750) and visitors/vehicle entry cleaning protocols ( x= 3.000). The respondents have high adoption level ( x= 1.832) on the segregation and traffic control, medium level of adoption for cleaning ( x = 2.159) and disinfection shows low level of adoption of the standard biosecurity components ( x= 2.458). Major source of awareness of AI are; Co-farmers/farmers group (79.2%), radio program (73.3%) and family/friends/neighbors (59.2%) among others. The highly severe constraints of the youth poultry farmers were; lack of education, poor extension/veterinary contact, lack of Buffer Areas around the farm site and lack/ poor farm record keeping ( x= 1.000).
The study examined the information needs of farmers on post-harvest storage of tomato in Jigawa State, Nigeria. A total of one hundred and 120 tomato farmers were interviewed for the purpose of eliciting information through a 4-stage sampling procedure. Majority (75.0%) of the respondents were males (90.0%), married (89.2%), Muslims (95.9%) with Islamic education (50.0%). The respondents’ average (x ): household size is 9 persons, farm size of 1.6ha, monthly income of N30,916.67 and age of 41.6 years. Primary occupation of the majority is farming (96.7%) with mean farming experience of 13 years. Main source of labor is family labor (86.7%). Greater proportions source their funds through personal savings (77.5%). Land ownership is through inheritance (66.7%) and no extension service involvement (97.5%). The most needed information on post-harvest storage is lack of current information, techniques for record keeping and sustainable market (100.0%, x = 3.50), respectively. They were only aware of post-harvest storage like basket cooling (91.7%), sorting and grading (80.8%) and refrigeration storage (59.2%) among others while severe constraints were: lack of capital for post-harvest activities, government policy and infrastructure (99.2%, x = 3.78). The result of the Pearson Correlation showed positive relationship with educational level, household size, average monthly income and farming experience. The research recommended the recruitment of more competent extension officers for more farmers’ contact, structured and focused government policies on tomato post-harvest practices and periodic training of farmers.
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