Adoption of Improved Herbicides Spraying Technology among Farmers in Ayamelum L.G.A of Anambra State, Nigeria

Ume, S I; Uloh, V; Nwaneri, TC; Adikwu, D

doi:10.9734/ajaees/2016/17877

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“…Increase of profit/income via higher yield/harvest due to improved technology had significant positive correlation with age (r=0.230; p<0.01), gender (r=0.214; p<0.05), experience (r= 0.194; p<0.05), and income (r=0.228; p<0.05) ( Table 7). These are in agreement with findings of Langy and Mekura (2005) who reported that older farmers have higher accumulated capital, more contacts with extension workers, better preferred by credit institutions and larger family size, all of which may make them more prepared to adopt technology more than younger ones, but not in agreement with Ume, et al (2009), who suggested that older farmers are less amendable to change and hence reluctant to adopt new technologies. According to Langy and Mekura (2005), experience of farmers is generally relevant to adopt new technology through interaction with their neighbours and the outside world.…”

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Effects of improved fish production technology on the output of fish farmers in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Akangbe¹,

Ajiboye²,

Komolafe³

2016

Ruhuna J. Sci.

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The study examined the effects of improved fish production technology on the output of fish farmers in Ilorin Kwara State, Nigeria. A total of 125 respondents were selected. Primary data was collected with the use of structured questionnaire. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed for the study. Mean age of respondents was 39.8 years. Also majority were male (83.2%), had tertiary education (84.0%) and kept Catfish (90.4%). The mean income earned was N 1,012,320.00. Commonly used/ adopted improved fish technologies were floating feeds (84.8%), standard feeding regimes (84.0%), improved breeds of fingerlings (80.0%) and provision of inlet and outlet devices in pond (78.4). Farmers' perceptions were that the use of improved fish production technology saves time (mean=1.34), increases profit/improved income (mean=1.12) and conserves fish farmers' energy (mean=1.08). This study found average increase in output: input ratio as 0.77 kg of harvest per fish fingerlings stocked due to improved fish technology when compared to that before adoption of improved technology. Most indicated constraints faced by fish farmers were inadequate capital (88.0%), high cost of feed (79.2%) and high cost of fingerlings (71.2%). Profit increase/improved income of catfish farmers via higher yield/harvest due to adoption of new technology was found to be positively correlated with age (p<0.01), gender (p<0.05), and experience (p<0.05). The study concluded that the use of fish improved technology had positively influenced harvest of catfish farmers in the study area. The study recommend the need for training, workshops and seminars for catfish farmers on how they could have easy access to land, feeds at affordable rate and sources of fund at minimal interest rate.

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Effects of improved fish production technology on the output of fish farmers in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Akangbe¹,

Ajiboye²,

Komolafe³

2016

Ruhuna J. Sci.

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“…The coefficient of farm size was negative against a prior expectation, implying that the more the increase in farm size used, the less the quantity of cassava output produced. The sign identity of the variable could be attributed to its' paucity as agriculture competes with infrastructural developments over it [8]. The determinants of technical efficiency in cassava were shown in Table 3.…”

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Technical Efficiency among Women Cassava Small Holder Farmers in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State

Ume

Onuh

Jiwuba

et al. 2016

AJAEES

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This study was carried out to investigate resource use efficiency of women cassava producers in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. A multi stage random sampling technique was used to select 120 women farmers in the local government in the year 2013. Percentage response was used to determine the farmers' socioeconomic characteristics, stochastic frontier and simultaneously, its' determinant were addressed using the maximum likelihood methods. The results of the study show that level of education, farming experience and extension contact were positive and significantly related to technical efficiency while credit access had inverse relationship with technical efficiency. The mean technical efficiency was 0.56, the maximum efficiency was 0.97, while the minimum was 0.23. Policies aimed at encouraging both new entrant and older farmers into farming through provision of improved production inputs and as well as increasing farmers' access to extension contact and educational programmes were therefore recommended.

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“…Moreover, 65% of the respondents of the respondents are member of organization. Members of the organization could gain access to information patterning to climate change and other environmental effects associated with goat production through interaction among members [29]. Additionally, 91.7% of the respondents had formal education, while only 8.3% had no formal education.…”

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“…This could imply that educated people are often more receptive to adoption of environmental free pollution technologies, as they are aware of the consequences of environmental abuse as result of their activities and could leave nothing to avert it. This may perhaps through adhering to safe use and handling, following manufacturers' instructional manuals on the use of the technologies and wearing all the necessary protective material while applying the technologies [29]. Nevertheless, [8] differed significantly with aforesaid assertion but truly observed that people with high educational status has low probability of being a farmer than engaging in 'white collar job', hence may not be interested in agricultureenvironmental issues, provided he or she is not directly affected.…”

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Effect of Goat Production to the Environment in the Humid Tropics of the World

Ume

Ezeano

Jiwuba

2019

SFP

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The research was aimed at identifying the determinants of goat farmers’ choice of adaptation methods to climatic change in South east Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were to identify the farmers’ adaptation methods, identify the determinants of choice of the adaptation methods, the limiting factors to farmers’ adaptation options in the study area. A total of 120 famers were selected using multistage random sampling technique. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as percentage responses and multi- nominal logit model and factor analysis. The adaptation strategies used by the goat farmers were use of use of nutrient-dense diets, drinking water, planting of tree as shade and location of house in the farm. Additionally, the effects of goat production to the environment were deforestation, land degradation, climate change, air pollution and rodent menace. In addition, goat Production technologies to curtail environmental pollution were precious feed management, litter management, use of hydrophilic products, use of rat poison and trap, adequate housing and proper manure disposal. The factors influencing farmers’ choice of adaptation methods were level of education, membership of cooperative, farming experience, poor access to extension services and access to credit. The determinant factors to the adoption of goat production related environmental technologies were level of education, extension visit, off farm income, farming experience and membership of organization. The result also showed that the major factors limiting factors to adoption of the technologies were poor access to funds, poor access to improved technology and poor access to heat resistant goat breed. There is need to enhance farmers’ access to credit, extension services and educational programs

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Adoption of Improved Herbicides Spraying Technology among Farmers in Ayamelum L.G.A of Anambra State, Nigeria

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Effects of improved fish production technology on the output of fish farmers in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Effects of improved fish production technology on the output of fish farmers in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Technical Efficiency among Women Cassava Small Holder Farmers in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State

Effect of Goat Production to the Environment in the Humid Tropics of the World

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