Cocoa Farmers Access to Agricultural Information on Cultural Practices in Edo State, Nigeria

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 INFORMATION​ON 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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