Leadership and Self-Help Groups in Nigeria - Implications for Agricultural Extension

Ofuoku, Albert Ukaro; Agbamu, Joseph Unuetara

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“…Inadequate access to public extension service is congruent with the findings of Ofuoku and Agbamu (2013), who found that inadequate information on extension / farmers' group meetings was a challenge to such groups. Agbamu (2011) point out that the ratio of extension agents to farm families is very poor.…”

Section: Level Of Satisfaction Of Respondents With Their Cooperativessupporting

confidence: 63%

“…Satisfaction of group members leads to group cohesion. According to Ofuoku et al (2008), Ofuoku and Urang (2009), Ofuoku and Agbamu (2013), farmers would like to remain in their various groups if their needs are satisfied. Groups remain cohesive as the individual members' needs are satisfied (Ofuoku and Chukwuji, 2012).…”

Section: Level Of Satisfaction Of Respondents With Their Cooperativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Farmers' groups inundate everywhere, yet the level of production among farmers is still inadequate (Ofuoku and Agbamu, 2013). Nigeria has not been able to achieve 5% of the total caloric intake of nonstarchy crops recommended by the food and Agriculture Organization (Iwala et al, 2006).…”

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Farm Operations Cooperative in Central Agricultural Zone of Delta State, Nigeria

Ofuoku¹

2015

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ABSTRACThis study was carried out to examine farm operations cooperatives in Central Agricultural Zone of Delta State, Nigeria. All the members of the six (6) selected groups were used for the study. The data which were collected with the use of questionnaire and interview schedule were analyzed with the use of frequency counts, percentages and tobit regression model. Most of the members were females and were also mostly married. Most of them were educated formally and had average household size of 5 persons and average farm size of 2.5 ha. They had an average farming experience of 13 years and most of them had no contact with extension agents. Most (76.50%) household had members that emigrated from households. They subscribed to these groups because of reduction of labour cost, timely execution and conclusion of farm operations, exchange of ideas and information, expansion of farm size and reduction of drudgery involved in farming. They were mostly satisfied with their various groups. They however had challenges ranging from irregular meeting attendance, inadequate access to extension service, bloated membership strength to lateness to work. Inadequate membership strength was also a constraint to few of the groups. The farmers' decision to subscribe to their various groups was informed or influenced by their marital status, level of education, household size, farm size, farming experience, extension visit and contact with other farmers, and emigration of household members. It was recommended that extension agents should establish frequent contacts with the various groups and educate them on the importance of time and regular meeting attendance. The groups with bloated membership strength should be split into two groups while farmers need to be encouraged to subscribe to those groups with inadequate membership strength.

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Section: Level Of Satisfaction Of Respondents With Their Cooperativessupporting

confidence: 63%

Section: Level Of Satisfaction Of Respondents With Their Cooperativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Farm Operations Cooperative in Central Agricultural Zone of Delta State, Nigeria

Ofuoku¹

2015

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“…Agbarevo and Obinne (2010) stated that leadership is related to group performance and hence satisfaction of members of such groups. In a related study, Ofuoku and Agbamu (2013) found that satisfaction of members of self-help groups depends on leadership quality of such groups.…”

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Cohesiveness of farmers` groups in Delta State Nigeria: Its implication for agricultural development

Ofuoku

2020

Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development

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This study which covered Delta State, Nigeria was embarked on to ascertain the cohesiveness of farmers' groups and fathom the implications for agricultural development. At the first stage, 18 farmers associations were randomly selected from the list of farmers' groups at the zonal headquarters of DTADP. Ten percent often membership strength of each selected association was randomly selected to form the study sample and this resulted to selection of 156 farmers. Farmers subscribed to the various groups for the purpose of accessing extension services/information and credit facilities. They also had the purpose of benefiting from government farmers' empowerment schemes and exchange ideas, knowledge and information with other members of their respective groups. Most of the groups were found to be highly cohesive and members were also highly cohesiveness of the groups was influenced by members of satisfaction with the groups satisfied with their various groups. This implies that agricultural development and revival of the economy can be achieved. It is recommended that sustained cohesion of the groups should be encouraged through agricultural extension agents and other farmers should be encouraged for their specialized groups in other to reap benefits of self-help farmers' groups. Contribution/ OriginalityThe study affirmed that cohesiveness of farmers' self-help groups determines the longevity of such groups. Group cohesiveness is an index of the members' success in their farming endeavours. With the use of specialized group method, the constraint of the dearth of extension agents is being solved.

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Leadership and Self-Help Groups in Nigeria - Implications for Agricultural Extension

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Farm Operations Cooperative in Central Agricultural Zone of Delta State, Nigeria

Farm Operations Cooperative in Central Agricultural Zone of Delta State, Nigeria

Cohesiveness of farmers` groups in Delta State Nigeria: Its implication for agricultural development

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