Actors’ Satisfaction with Poultry Value Chain Approach of the Commercial Agricultural Development Project in Enugu State, Nigeria

Udoye, Charles Ekene; Dimelu, M. U.; Anugwa, Ifeoma Q.; Ozioko, Remigius Ikechukwu; Azubuike, Favour C.

doi:10.4314/jae.v23i4.17

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“…This suggests that farmers who are the direct beneficiaries of the agricultural innovative research results through the programmes organized by the ADP overtime tends to be outdated in terms of ideas and practices and this often results to low agricultural productivity. This result supports the findings of Udoye, et al (2024) which revealed that only 15.6% of poultry producers indicated that they have linkage with agricultural extension professionals'. Similarly, agricultural extension professionals in the study area engage in minimal collaboration with research institutes' thus, indicating that there is a gap between agricultural extension practitioners and research institutes.…”

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Technological Capabilities of Extension Personnel in the Use of Social Media for Agricultural Service Delivery in Southeast, Nigeria

Udoye,

Chukwuma Okoro

2024

IJLSAR

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The study assessed the technological capabilities of extension personnel in the use of social media for agricultural service delivery in Southeast, Nigeria. One hundred and eighty-nine agricultural extension professionals constituted the population for the study. Data was analyzed using percentages, charts and mean scores. Results show that 97.4% of the agricultural extension professionals indicated that they use whatsapp for agricultural extension service delivery while 93.2% of the respondents indicated that they use facebook for service delivery. Data show that 95.3% of the respondents indicated that they use social media in linking with their colleagues. Entries show that 93.2% of the respondents indicated that they linked with Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) while 92.6% of the extension professionals linked with farmers group. Result show that 84.2% of the respondents had linkage with the ministry of agriculture. Also, 60.5% of the respondents interacted with the ministry of agriculture between 1-10 times while 54.2% of the respondents interacted with the ADP between 5-10 times in the last one year. Government should therefore ensure improved job satisfaction for agricultural extension professionals possibly by increasing their remuneration and providing logistics that would help them to keep in touch with other institutions for latest research results for the interest of the farmers.

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Section: Linkage With Institutionssupporting

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Technological Capabilities of Extension Personnel in the Use of Social Media for Agricultural Service Delivery in Southeast, Nigeria

Udoye,

Chukwuma Okoro

2024

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“…Agriculture emphatically contributed to the Nigerian economy during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial era. However, its contribution to the growth of the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been dwindling in recent times due to over-dependence of successive administrations on oil since its discovery [13,14].…”

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Is Agriculture Still the Mainstay of Rural Economies? Insights from Ultra-Poor Households in North-central Nigeria

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TB.,

OA.

2024

AJAEES

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Aims: Nigeria may be facing aging and decline in the population engaged at food production nodes, posing huge challenge to agri-food systems with poverty at risk of deepening. Current trend in rural-urban migration and occupational mobility raises the open question of: “Is agriculture still a mainstay of rural economy, playing reliant roles in income and employment generation for the ultra-poor in Nigeria rurality?”. Understanding this is important because structural change to agricultural workforce in Nigeria has far-reaching implications on food security, welfare, and poverty. We sought to unfold the dynamics of agriculture as a business among ultra-poor rural households in North-Central Nigeria. First, we investigated engagements of ultra-poor rural households in agriculture. Secondly, we examined their level of commercialization. Lastly, we investigated determinants of ultra-poor’s market participation and its intensity. Study Design: This study used quantitative primary data collected in surveys and qualitative data generated from focus group discussions. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out in three states in North-central Nigeria viz: Kwara, Kogi, and Niger with data collected and analyzed between 2020-2022. Methodology: We randomly selected 1588 households (out of 60,427 households) from the “Single Register of the Ultra-poor” operationalized on a World-Bank-Assisted Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme. We analysed data using descriptive statistics, Household Agricultural Commercialization Index, and Double-Hurdle Model. Results: Only about 18.7% of the ultra-poor households were primarily engaged in agriculture with the focus groups highlighting conflicts issues from indiscriminate grazing activities as primary reason for the abandonment. Determinants of market participation and intensification include: (-) household dependency ratio, distance to markets, (+) linkage to market agents, access to mechanization and input market, CCT-beneficiary status, and farm size (p<0.05). Conclusion: Involvement in primary agricultural production is declining in Nigeria. We recommend a boost to infrastructural development of the rurality to support agricultural transformation and attractiveness to the next wave of youths.

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“…Indeed, available evidence has shown that CADP has made contributions to the aquaculture sector (Christopher et al, 2017;Udoye et al, 2019). However, actors in these sectors do not belong to any category of SMEs in the respective studied areas.…”

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Business Development Intervention and Performance of Aquaculture: A Case of Business Groups in Lagos State, Nigeria

Sofoluwe

Oyeniyi²,

Oladimeji

2022

Binus Business Review

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Businesses in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered crucial to the development of societies. Hence, development interventions from international agencies are introduced to these groups to achieve developmental objectives. However, the importance of such intervention to the overall performance of the enterprises is yet to be examined. The research assessed the contribution of the intervention to the production capacity of SMEs. It also examined the business volume and value of sales of their products and contribution to employment opportunities. Then, the factors influencing participation in the project by the SMEs were also analyzed. Survey data were collected through a structured questionnaire. A stratified random sampling technique was employed to select the business groups. Descriptive statistics and probit regression methods were utilized to analyze the data. The results show an improvement in the production capacity of the participating business groups. Relatively, the average production capacity of medium enterprises is higher compared to the small business groups. The volume and value of sales and employment opportunities created through the financial intervention increase the performance of SMEs in the aquaculture business sector. Education and membership in the association are also found to be significant factors (p < 0,05). The factors affect business group participation in the intervention.

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Actors’ Satisfaction with Poultry Value Chain Approach of the Commercial Agricultural Development Project in Enugu State, Nigeria

Cited by 5 publications

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Technological Capabilities of Extension Personnel in the Use of Social Media for Agricultural Service Delivery in Southeast, Nigeria

Technological Capabilities of Extension Personnel in the Use of Social Media for Agricultural Service Delivery in Southeast, Nigeria

Is Agriculture Still the Mainstay of Rural Economies? Insights from Ultra-Poor Households in North-central Nigeria

Business Development Intervention and Performance of Aquaculture: A Case of Business Groups in Lagos State, Nigeria

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