ASSESSMENT OF WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN JERE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BORNO STATE (Vol. 2. Iss. 4; pp. 96-102)
ASSESSMENT OF WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN JERE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BORNO STATE
*1 Muhammad Wakil, 1Aishatu Ahmed Sulum, 1Ismail Ibrahim
1 Department of Agricultural Technology Mohamet Lawan College of Agriculture Maiduguri,
Borno State, Nigeria, Correspondence Authors’ Email: mwaksdam@gmail.com
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Article Type: Research Received: 07, Sep. 2018. Accepted: 31, Dec. 2019. Published: 31, Dec. 2019.
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The study is on the Assessment of Women Participation in Vegetable Production in Jere Local Government of Borno State, Nigeria. Sixty (60) women farmers were sampled through purposive random sampling procedure. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentages, means and ranking were used to analyze the data. The results on socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents revealed that majority (36.0%) of the respondents were within the age group of 20-40years. The respondents who were married was 48.0%, and on some dependents, the result shows that 53.0% of the respondents had 5-10 persons and only 16.7% had above ten numbers of dependents. The result also revealed that majority (43.4%) of the respondents attended Quranic education, 3.3% attended tertiary education while th ose with no formal education were only 3.3%. The larger proportion (43.3%) of the farmers in the study area had less than five years of farming experience, and only 15.0% had 16 years and above farming experience. The result on the farmers’ occupation shows that majority (80.0%) of the respondents was farmers and only 3.3% were artisans. The result further revealed that larger proportion (43.3%) of the farmers were found to be operating on a small scale with a farm size of less than 1 hectare and only 3.3% had farm land of above 3 hectares. The result on women participation vegetable production indicates that 4 out of the six types of vegetable produced by them were categorized into a high level of participation. These are tomato (mean = 2.0), onion (mean = 1.8), cabbage (mean = 1.7) and sorrel (mean = 1.7). Therefore tomato, onion, cabbage and sorrel ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th respectively while pepper and carrot ranked 5th and 6th respectively. The result on the constraint of vegetable production based on ranking was lack of modern storage method, inadequate capital and poor support from family and community with their ranking 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th respectively. It is concluded that women farmers highly participate in vegetable production and recommended that the community and private sector together with the government should join hand to open up the local government to the outside world by providing the necessary assistances to women farmers. |
| Keywords:
Women Participation, Vegetable, Jere, Ranking and Assessment. |
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