School of Agricultural Management and Extension (SAME)

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School of Agricultural Management and Extension (SAME)

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    Utilization of post-harvest technologies among Yam Farmers in Selected Local Government Areas of Niger State, Nigeria
    (Proceedings of the 1st International conference of agriculture and agricultural Technology, 2019) Hassan, S.; Salihu, I.T.; Abdullahi, A.; Aliyu, A.
    Yam is an important tuber crop in Nigeria. However, its availability is affected by rate of deterioration arising from poor postharvest handling. Hence, farmers use various techniques to minimize the loss. Therefore, this study examined the utilization of post harvest technologies among yam farmers in selected local Government areas of Niger state, Nigeria. Data were collected from 195 respondents and analyzed with descriptive statistics. The result revealed that, the mean age of the respondent was 35.0 years and highly experienced in food crops production with mean of 18.0 years experience. Majority of the respondents (79%) had formal education. However data analysis reveals that yam barn storage technique ranked first in terms of types and level of utilization by the farmers with the highest weighted mean (WM=3.87) while, open sided shelve was the least (WM=1.43). It is therefore recommended that extension agents should actively disseminate information on improved storage techniques to yam farmers in the study area as well as the need to use such techniques.
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    Effects of knowledge of Hand washing, sources of water and Environmental hygiene of farming Households on sustainable Agriculture in North-Central Nigeria
    (Proceedings of the 1st International conference of agriculture and agricultural Technology, 2019) Salihu, I.T.; G.B. Adesiji; Abdullahi, A.; H.U. Muhammed
    The study assess the knowledge of hand washing, sources of water and environmental hygiene practices of farming households in North-Central Nigeria. Multi- stage simple random sampling technique was used to select 256 farming households in the study area. Interview schedule was used to elicit data from the respondents. The responses were analyzed using frequency counts and mean score. The result of the study shows that 38% of the respondents are in the age range of 31 – 40 years with a mean of 36.7 years, they had low level of education and the mean number of number of visits of health service workers to farming households is 3 times/per annum. The results revealed that majority (73.80%) of the respondents are aware of the need to always wash hands after using the toilet but the knowledge on the use soap to wash hand before eating ( 36.30%), preparing food/cooking (20.30%), changing baby’s wear ( 24.20%), after defecating (19.10% ) and before feeding children (18.40%) is low in the study area. Majority of the respondents go their water for household purposes from unprotected sources such as dug well (57%) and bore holes (52%) and the majority (84%) treat their water by allowing it to stand and settle before drinking or before using it for other household purposes which is inadequate and may endanger the farming households to the vulnerability of food and water borne diseases. The use of bush and pit latrine are the major means of defecation in the households and dumping of household waste in a nearby bush is the system of waste disposal always adopted by majority (63.70%) of the households. Health extension workers and the local authorities should establish joint participatory committees to sensitize, motivate and organize food safety promotion programmes on the need to enforce some crucial food safety practices especially hand washing with soap/ash, on the danger of open defecation and poor system of waste disposal.