Training Needs Assessment of Women in Small Scale Livestock Production and Its Implication for Socio-economic Empowerement in Oyo State, Nigeria

Oyegbami, A.; Fato, B. F.; Adeniran, A.A.; Akintoye, N. A.; Ogarr, E. E.

doi:10.9734/ajaees/2016/18104

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“…The research was carried out in Oyo State, which is located in Southwest, Nigeria with an approximate land mass of 28,454 kilometers square and an estimated population of about 5,591,598 people ( 24 ). The economy of the state is driven majorly through agriculture, which remains the major source of income for a great number of inhabitants ( 25 ). The unemployment rate in Nigeria is 21.1%, Southwest Nigeria (15%) and Oyo State (8.8%) and some people engage in petty trading by the road side ( 26 ).…”

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Evaluation of Diagnostic Microbiology Capacity and Barriers in Testing for HIV and TB at Peripheral Hospital-Based Laboratories in Oyo-State, Nigeria

Bankole

Ajayi

2022

Microbiol Spectr

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Evaluation of Diagnostic Microbiology Capacity and Barriers in Testing for HIV and TB at Peripheral Hospital-Based Laboratories in Oyo-State, Nigeria

Bankole

Ajayi

2022

Microbiol Spectr

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“…Livestock farming is also an important occupation of the populations of Kwara and Oyo States who rear pigs, goats, sheep, rabbits, and chickens. Adeyonu, (2016), Oyegbami, et al,. (2016).…”

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Analysis of the Technical Efficiency of Castor Farmers in Oyo and Kwara States, Nigeria

Oguntade

Falola

2022

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This study was carried out to evaluate the technical efficiency and production practices of castor farmers in Oyo and Kwara States, Nigeria. Snowballing sampling technique was used. Data on production practices, inputs, and outputs were collected with the aid of a structured questionnaire by trained enumerators and analysed by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Results showed that the mean technical efficiency was 0.4272 or 42.72%, the maximum efficiency was 1 and the minimum efficiency was 0.1315. Only 14% had a frontier technical efficiency of 1. For the castor farmers to operate on the production frontier, the efficiency needs to be increased by 57.28%. Technically inefficient farms should emulate the operating practices of the most productive farms, to improve their performance. Furthermore, the slacks of the DEA showed that the two most overused variables were seed and labour. The farmers need to use the right quantity of seeds and labour in other to reduce costs without reducing the output. The production practices for castor production were divided into three steps; pre-planting, planting, and post-planting. The list of operations included; land clearing, ploughing, ridging planting, weeding with hoe/machete, herbicide spraying, pesticide spraying, fungicide spraying, fertilizer application, pruning, harvesting, shelling and winnowing. From the study, it can be concluded that if the castor farmers were to operate on the production frontier, the efficiency of input usage would have to increase by 57.28%.

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Training Needs Assessment of Women in Small Scale Livestock Production and Its Implication for Socio-economic Empowerement in Oyo State, Nigeria

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Evaluation of Diagnostic Microbiology Capacity and Barriers in Testing for HIV and TB at Peripheral Hospital-Based Laboratories in Oyo-State, Nigeria

Evaluation of Diagnostic Microbiology Capacity and Barriers in Testing for HIV and TB at Peripheral Hospital-Based Laboratories in Oyo-State, Nigeria

Analysis of the Technical Efficiency of Castor Farmers in Oyo and Kwara States, Nigeria

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