Type | Journal Article - International Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development |
Title | Cocoa Farmers Access to Agricultural Information on Cultural Practices in Edo State, Nigeria |
Author(s) | |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 1 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2013 |
Page numbers | 1409-1414 |
URL | http://ijard.com/journalarticles/pdf 16(1)2013/10. COCOA FARMERS ACCESS TO AGRICULTURAL INFORMATIONON CULTURAL PRACTICES IN EDO STATE, NIGERIA.pdf |
Abstract | Based on the concept of technology adoption, a logit regression model was used to analyze cocoa farmers access to agro-information’s on cultural practices in Edo State, Nigeria. Four hundred and sixty seven farmers were randomly selected and studied with the use of structured questionnaire/interview schedule. Frequency distribution, percentages and logit regression model were used to analyze the primary data collected. The results of the study revealed that majority of the farmers were males (85.87%) and the farmer’s age ranged from 20 – 60 years. The cocoa farmer main access to agro-information were through extension training programme (73.23%) like farmer field school, participatory extension methods, from fellow cocoa farmers (63.81%) and personal observations (43.04%) while very few farmers had access to weeding (3.64%) and marketing (3.85%). It was therefore recommended that other sources of agroinformation to farmers should be enhanced and extension systems should be strengthened, since this will significantly influence the accessibility by cocoa farmers to agro- information on cultural practice |
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