Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
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Item Gender Analysis of Resource-use Efficiency among Sesame Farmers in Niger State(Book of Proceedings of the 3rd International Mediterranean Scientific Research and Innovation Congress, 2023) Shuaibu, U.; Abdullahi, A.; Jibrin, S.The study aimed at assessing gender analysis of resource-use efficiency in sesame production in Niger State, Nigeria. A purposive and multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 76 male and 75 female sesame farmers and data collected through structured questionnaire were analyzed using frequency distribution, means, percentages, Cobb-Douglass production function and resource-use efficiency model. Results obtained shows that farmers in the study area were mostly in their productive age (40 years, averagely), married (55.7%) with formal education (86.1%) and household size of (6 persons, averagely). The efficient utilization of production inputs were influenced by Labour, fertilizers, seed and Agrochemicals with MVP to MPC ratios less than unity for land (0.15), and Agrochemicals (0.63), equal to unity for seed (1) and greater than unity for fertilizer application (1.15) and land (1.20). However, the cost and returns shows that sesame production in the study area is a profitable enterprise which shows that for every ₦1.00 invested ₦4.41/4.32 was earned along gender line. More so, sesame farmers were restricted by; Weed pressure in sesame farms, inadequate capital start-up, difficulty in managing pest and diseases, difficulty in accessing loans and high cost of farm inputs. which ranked among the top five (5) prominent constraint in the study area. The production resources in the study area were found not to be efficiently utilized since most of the production inputs were either over or under-utilized. Hence not to optimum economic advantage it is therefore recommended that for optimal use of resources in sesame production, quantities of fertilizer application should be increased while land, labour and Agrochemicals should be reduced.Item Assessment of efficient utilization of production inputs among women rice farmers in Niger State, Nigeria(Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference of the Agricultural Society of Nigeria, 2019) Yusuf, A.; Tsado, J. H.; Salihu, I. T.; Abdullahi, A.Rural women have feature prominently in rice production enterprise, specifically; up to 70% of the rice produced in Africa comes from women (FAO, 2011). In Niger State, rice is traditionally regarded as a product of women. Women living in this area are having high knowledge about traditional farming methods of rice production. However, low productivity coupled with stiff competition posed by importers over the years has restrained the women farmers from earning significant returns from their investment and this has created rice production deficit. To minimize the effect of the rice production shortfalls on state demand, several efforts have been made by successive governments together with donor partners in a form of implemented projects to increase rice production. However, this effort is still ineffective due to limiting factors such as: inadequate institutional support (access to credit, research and extension), inappropriate production system, inadequate basic infrastructures, production risk and inefficiency on the part of the farmers. In light of these assertions, the challenging question to this review is that ‘can women rice farmers improved on their technical efficiency to reduce production risk and increase output’? Thus, this review seeks to assess the efficient utilization of production inputs among women rice farmers in Niger State, Nigeria.