Personal and Socio-Economic Factors Affecting the Adoption of Sweet Potato Production Technology by Farmers in South-East Zone of Nigeria

Mbanaso, EO; Agwu, A. E.; Anyanwu, AC; Onwubuya, E A

doi:10.4314/as.v10i3.9

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“…The findings presented in Table 2 revealed that the high per cent of paddy growers (46.66%) were found to have high awareness, followed by medium awareness (39.17%) and low awareness (14.17%) regarding indigenous technical knowledge practices respectively. Similar results are also reported by Sheikh et al (2006) and Mbanaso et al (2012). The category wise mean score for indigenous technical knowledge practices was found least for low awareness (0.14) followed by medium awareness (0.78) and high awareness (1.87) respectively.…”

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Rank Order Wise Extent of Awareness of Paddy Growers Regarding Indigenous Technical Knowledge Practices in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh, India

Jallaraph¹,

Pathak²

2018

IJBSM

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This study was conducted in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh state during 2015-16 to know the awareness level of indigenous technical knowledge of paddy growers in paddy cultivation. The Ex-Post-Facto research design was used for the study. This design was considered appropriate because the phenomenon has already occurred. The sample has been selected through multi-stage sampling technique. Bastar district was selected purposively for study because of paddy is the main crop in that area. There are seven blocks (Bastanar, Darbha, Bakawand, Bastar, Jagdalpur, Tokapal and Lohandiguda) in Bastar district among which two blocks (Tokapal and Lohandiguda) were selected for study. Six villages were selected from each block. From each of the selected villages, 10 respondents were selected by simple random sampling procedure, thus the sample size for the study was 120. The primary data were collected through personal interview technique with the help of pre-tested interview schedule. Various statistical measures viz., mean, standard deviation and mean score were used for analyzing the data. In present study it was found that higher per cent of paddy growers (46.66%) had high level of awareness regarding Indigenous Technological Knowledge practices, followed by medium (39.17%) and low (14.17%), respectively. The highest extent of rank order wise awareness about field preparation and ploughing practices were I st (2.94), followed by irrigation management practices (2.90) II nd and plant protection measure practices (2.87) III rd . AbstractArticle History

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confidence: 90%

Rank Order Wise Extent of Awareness of Paddy Growers Regarding Indigenous Technical Knowledge Practices in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh, India

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Pathak²

2018

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“…Gender distribution among farmers in sweet potato production is skewed slightly towards males (78.5%). This finding agrees with Mbanaso et al (2012) in the Southeast agro-ecological zone of Nigeria but at variance with the findings of Jude et al (2011) in Imo State, Nigeria. Large proportions of (73.8%) of the sweet potato farmers were married with mean family size of 6.…”

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Performance Analysis of Small Scale Sweet Potato Farms in Oyo State, Nigeria

Baruwa

2016

Agricultura Tropica Et Subtropica

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This study carried out an analysis of the performance of sweet potato production among small holder farmers in Oyo State of Nigeria. A combination of purposive and a two-stage random sampling technique were used to obtain information from 65 respondents. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, stochastic frontier functions and budgetary technique. Results indicated that majority of the farmers were literate, aged 43.3 years on the average, full time in sweet potato production and with mean farm size of 1.0 hectare. The gross margin and net profit were ₦76, 884.8 and ₦67,292.8, respectively (₦, naira Nigerian Currency, ₦160 = 1$US) indicating that sweet potato production was profitable. The return to scale (RTS) for the production function revealed that farmers operated in the irrational zone (stage I) of the production surface. The stochastic production frontier analysis revealed that the technical efficiencies of farmers was found to be fairly high with a mean of 0.92% which suggest that the average sweet potato output falls 0.08% short of the maximum possible level but the efficiency can be increased by better use of available resources.

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“…This was operationalised by using adoption index of respondents calculated from CBARDP technologies disseminated to the farmers. In developing the adoption score, respondents were asked to indicate their stages on five of adoption process for the various agricultural technologies as developed by Rogers (1995) and used by Agwu (2000) and Mbanaso et al (2012) which in this study were modified into four stages. The response categories and the corresponding weighted values were as follows: "heard about with few details" scored one point, "heard and being taught with full details" scored two points, "tried out and decided to use" scored three points and "adopted and still using on my farm" scored four points.…”

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Adoption of community-based agricultural development project technologies among smallholder farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria

Adesoji

Fabiyi

Famakinwa

2020

Agricultura Tropica Et Subtropica

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The study described socio-economic characteristics of the beneficiaries of the Community Based Agricultural and Rural Development Project (CBARDP), profiled the agricultural technologies disseminated and adopted. The study was carried out in Kwara State, Nigeria among smallholder farmers. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to select respondents who participated in CBARDP in Local Government Areas (LGAs). At the first stage, one participating LGA was purposively selected from each of the agricultural zones, making a total of nine LGAs. At the second stage, three rural communities were randomly selected from each of the selected LGAs while the final stage involved a simple random selection of ten participating farmers from the selected rural communities making a total of 270 respondents. Data collected were described with the frequency counts, percentages, means and standard deviations whereas Chi-square and correlation analyses were used for inferential purposes. The results showed that the mean age of farmers was 52.1 ± 6 years, majority (92.2 % and 74.1 %) were married and male, respectively. The overall results indicated a moderate level of adoption of CBARDP technologies but high adoption in orchard, fishery, poultry and cattle packages while the respondents had low adoption in livestock, processing, crop production and agro-processing packages. The results showed that significant associations existed between sex (χ2 = 23.934), marital status (χ2 = 34.66), membership of social organisation (χ2 = 23.43), compatibility (χ2 = 362.88, relative advantage (χ2 = 211.69) and adoption of CBARDP technologies whereas there were significant relationship between household size (r = 0.201), farm size (r = 0.537), years of experience (r = −0.375) and farmers’ adoption of CBARDP technologies. The study concluded that adoption of CBARDP technologies was moderate among beneficiaries in the study area. It is therefore recommended that more awareness should be created by relevant stakeholders to encourage especially more women to actively participate in similar projects in the future.

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Personal and Socio-Economic Factors Affecting the Adoption of Sweet Potato Production Technology by Farmers in South-East Zone of Nigeria

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Rank Order Wise Extent of Awareness of Paddy Growers Regarding Indigenous Technical Knowledge Practices in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh, India

Rank Order Wise Extent of Awareness of Paddy Growers Regarding Indigenous Technical Knowledge Practices in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh, India

Performance Analysis of Small Scale Sweet Potato Farms in Oyo State, Nigeria

Adoption of community-based agricultural development project technologies among smallholder farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria

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