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Item 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.Item 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. MuhammedThe 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.Item Effect of Rural Youths migration on Maize production in Kontagora Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria(Proceedings of the 1st International conference of agriculture and agricultural Technology held at Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria, 2019) Abdullahi, A.; Baba, K.M.; Salihu, I. T.The study assessed the effect of rural youths’ migration on maize production in Kontagora Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to; describe the socio-economic characteristics of farmers; ascertain the causes of youths’ migration, determine the extent of youths’ migration, access the effect of youths’ migration on maize production and identify the problems associated with youths’ migration in the area. To achieve these objectives, 120 maize farmers were randomly selected through multi-stage sampling technique. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. The result on socio-economic characteristics shows that majority (52.5%) of the respondents are still in their active age of between 21- 40 years with mean age of 39years. Equally, respondents were males (72.5%), married (77.5%) with Non formal education (40%). Only a few (18.3%) attained tertiary education. Similarly, majority (90%) had a household size of between 1 – 10 persons with average size of 6 persons per household. The average maize farming experience among the respondents was 17 years. The major causes of youths’ migration in the area includes: lack of employment opportunities (90%), furthering of education (77.5%), and lack of access to modern amenities (55%). The extent of Youths migration in the area is relatively moderate (45.8%) with averagely 31 youths leaving each village every year. The peak period of migration is usually during the off-season (50.8%). The result of the regression analysis shows Cob-Douglass as the lead equation. The result revealed that youths’ migration affect production negatively while labour, agro chemicals and fertilizer are positively significant. The problems of youths migration in the area include; loss of cultural values (75%), reduction in rural population (54.2%) and dull village life (47.5). To this end, youths’ migration limits maize production thus, government should provide functional schools and employment opportunities to engage rural youthsItem 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.Item Assessment of Crop Farmers’ and Pastoralists’ Perceptions on the Establishment of Cattle Ranches in Niger State, Nigeria(Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference of the Agricultural Society of Nigeria, 2019) I. M.Mayaki; H. T. Jacob; I. S. Umar; Abdullahi, A.The Nigeria government have tried in many ways, initiated lots of policy and programmes which is aimed at restoring the country’s agricultural sector to its pride. Despite the efforts to promote positive perception and adoption of innovative technologies (IT) by the Government and international development projects, the adoption rate among farmers has always been low in Nigeria. In continuation, recently the federal government of Nigeria introduced the Rural Grazing Areas (RUGA Settlement).The idea was an initiative of the National Economic Council (NEC) presented under the National Livestock Transformation Plan .The essence of the initiatives to abolish the age-long crop farmers and pastoralists’ crisis and to massively develop the livestock industry and seek to promote ranching as the way forward for cattle rearing in the country. According Alh. Mohammadu Umar, the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,made it known to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on 25th of June 2019 that nomadic livestock production in Nigeria is facing major challenges and is at crossroads due to declining availability of pasture, overgrazing, and expanding fatal conflicts between crop farmers’ and pastoralists’.Item ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY ON RURAL HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY IN KATCHA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE(Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economist, 2010) Yisa, E. S., A. Ogaji, O. J. Ajayi, Yusuf, T. L. and Shaffi, A.The study examined the assessment of the effect of agricultural productivity in rural household food security in Katcha local government area of Niger state, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to examine the socioeconomic characteristics of rural household, examine the effect of socio-economic variables on household food security status of the respondents and to identify the constraints affecting agricultural output and food security. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis were used. A survey conducted using 108 randomly selected respondents revealed that about 54.9% of the respondents have an average household size and about 77.8% of the respondents spends 60% of their total income on purchasing food items for their household and about 58.3% of the respondents use their personal farm produce both for household consumption and sales up to 56.4% of the respondents indicated that they are in dire need of more food. 42.7% of the .total variation in food security index was explained by the regression model while the remaining 57.3% of the variation was accounted for by the exogenous factors. Major problems faced by the rural household include inadequate capital, lack of good road network, marketing of farm produce and insufficient or excessive rainfall. Social infrastructures should be provided and fanners should be given concession in disbursement of loans from financial institutions.Item Efficiency of labour and fertilizer use in sugarcane production by small-holder farmer in Gbako Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria.(2010) Yisa, E. S., Ogaji, A., Ajayi, O. J., & Hamza, T.This study examined efficiency of labour and fertilizer usage in sugarcane production by small holder farmers in Gbako Local Government Area of Niger State. Primary data was collected from 110 randomly selected farmers using structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical tools, the gross margin analysis, multiple regression analysis and resource use efficiency ratio. The result shows that 10.9% of the sampled farmers fall below 30 years of age and 96.3% are married, 40% of the farmers had Quranic education. About 90.9% of the sample farmers had over 30 years of faming experience. 68.1% of the sample farmers had farming as their primary occupation. The predominant system of land tenure in the area is by inheritance. The estimated gross income gives an average value of 87,550 per annum while the net farm income was estimated at 50,500 respectively. The production function analysis show that seedling (X2) and agrochemical (X5) were significant factors influencing the output of sugarcane production at 1% and 5% level of probability respectively. The efficiency ratio (r) indicates that farm size was underutilized while fertilizer and labour were over utilized. The major problems facing farmers include high cost of transportation, price fluctuation, Farm input, Input Incentives and Lack of adequate modern facilities.Item LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION AND INCOME INEQUALITY OF HOUSEHOLDS IN MINNA NIGER STATE(Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economist, 2016) Oseghale, A.I.; Ogaji, A.; Sadiq, M.S.; Bako, R.U.; Sani, A. and Akpa E.O.The study examined the effect of livelihood diversification and income inequality of households in Minna, Niger state. Multistage sampling technique was employed with 120 questionnaires administered. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Gini coefficients and Simpson’s Index of Diversity. The result of the research indicated that the respondents were into both off-farm and on-farm activities. In addition, trading, livestock and crop farming were the major livelihood activities of the respondents. Result of Gini coefficient indicated that livelihood diversification had a negative impact on inequality (0.795) but Simpson’s index of diversity (SID) showed a high level of diversity in the area (0.76). This implies that, diversification has an effect on household income. The need for the respondents to get involved in both agricultural and non-agricultural activities in order to earn more income and diversify income sources was recommended.Item FISH FARMING: A SOURCE OF INCOME IN SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS IN NIGER STATE, NIGERIA.(2016) Ibrahim F.D., Oseghale A.I., Jirgi A.J. and Ogaji A.The study examined the fish farming enterprise as a source of income in selected local government area in Niger State, Nigeria. Data for the study was collected through the use of questionnaire from 226 randomly selected fish farmers. Data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics, budgetary techniques and multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that fish farming was carried out predominantly by males who are 42 years of age on the average. The NFI was N12255, while the BCR and RORI were 1.83 and 0.83 respectively an indication that fish farming was a profitable venture. In addition, the study revealed that cost of feed, cost of fingerlings, household size, and years spent schooling and farming experience were the factors that influenced revenue as they were significant at 5%. Based on the findings, the study concludes that fish farming is a profitable enterprise and it has a potential because it contributes to the household income. The study therefore recommends that young unemployed persons in the study area should be encouraged to start up fish farming enterprise and the government should help to subsidize the cost of feed so as to help fish farmers maximize their revenue.Item Analysis of the technical efficiency in maize and sorghum production in Kaduna State, Nigeria using the parametric and non-parametric models(Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economists (NAAE), 2018) Ogaji, A., Tanko, L., Nmadu, J.N. and Olaleye, R.S.ABSTRACT The study analyzed the technical efficiency of maize and sorghum production in Kaduna State using the parametric and non-parametric models. Data were collected from primary sources and was obtained using the multistage random sampling technique. A total of 303 respondents were sampled. Analytical tools employed were descriptive statistics (means and percentages), Stochastics frontier model and data envelopment analysis. Results showed that 65% of the respondents were between the ages of 31-50, 86.8% were males and 74.3% were married. Result also showed a mean technical efficiency of 0.72 and 0.86 for SFA and DEA Models respectively. It was recommended that both models should be used in determining efficiency giving the importance of accurate production efficiency estimates in policy decision making.