Constraints affecting summer vegetable cultivation

Effects of vegetable production on income and livelihood of rural households in Nigeria

“…For this, most of the vegetable farmers still operate traditionally which resulted in low output. This agrees with the findings of Kshash (2019) and Manu et al (2019). Farmers also faced the problem of poor market/pricing due to damage caused to the produce and the inability to store the vegetables.…”

“…(1) Where Y is the annual income (NGN, N), V is vegetable production in terms of its yield (kg per ha), A is the age of the farmers (years), HS is the household size (number of people in the household), ED is the educational level of the farmer (years), FE is the farming experience (years), FS is farm size (hectare), AE is access to extension service (1 = yes, 0 = no), AC is access to credit loan facilities (1 = yes, 0 = no), β 0 is constant, β 1 to β 8 are the coefficients and e is the error term. A five-point Likert scale score was used to explore how vegetable production has improved farmers' livelihood based on their perception and to identify constraints faced in vegetable production, as it was used in previous studies (Kshash, 2019;Obetta et al, 2020). A set of constraints were itemized and the farmers were asked to indicate their perceived level of severity to each of the problems (the same was done for perceived benefits).…”