Gender and Relative Production Efficiency in Food Crop Farming in Abia State of Nigeria

Analysis of Gender Roles and Production Function of Small Scale Oil-Palm Processing in South-East, Nigeria

“…Oboh and Kushwaha, (2009) have noted that credit has the ability of transforming smallholder agriculture from subsistence orientation to market orientation. This result is consistent with the findings of Nwaru (2004) and Kadurumba et al (2009) who reported similar findings in their work.…”

“…This direct relationship implies that the more experienced the processing, the higher would be his output and may be accounted for by the fact that the experience processor will always fall back on his wealth of experience to overcome the challenges and constraints that may arise during his processing activity. Nwaru (2004) agrees with this position, noting that the number of years a farmer has spent in the farming business may give an indication of practical knowledge he has acquired on how he could overcome certain inherent farm production challenges.…”

Adoption of root and tuber technologies disseminated by the National Root Crops Research Institute in Anambra State

“…The results also showed that majority of the respondents had secondary school education (40.35%). This implies that the educational status of the respondents is relevant to enhance adoption of the technologies since acquisition of formal education is supposed to enhance one's ability to understand and evaluate new production techniques (Onyenweaku andNwaru, 2005, andNwaru, 2007). Education of the farmer has been assumed to have a positive influence on farmers' decision to adopt new technology.…”

Analysis of women participation in cassava production and processing in Imo state, southeast Nigeria

“…Their poor level of education may have also affected their non-membership of cooperative societies and poor access to agricultural credit. Illiteracy and lack of adequate education have been identified as part of the major factors militating against institutional support towards agriculture (Poly-Mbah and Udeogu, 2007;Nwaru, 2007). Enterprise objective of producing mainly for household sustenance has continued to affect the commercialization of agriculture in developing countries.…”