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    Effect of livelihood diversification on income security of rural farming households in Osun State, Nigeria
    (Book of Proceedings of the International Congress on Food, Agriculture and Environment Researches in Global World, 2024) Shuaibu, U.; Abdullahi, A.; Muhammad, H.U.; Abimboye, T.M.
    The study assessed the effect of livelihood diversification on income security of the rural farming households in Osun State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 161 registered farming households and data collected through a semi-structured questionnaire. The results obtained shows that farmers in the study area were mostly males (87.0%) and formally educated (73.9%) with an average age of 42years. Also, the result showed that arable crop farming (64.0%), livestock farming (41.6%) and poultry farming (59.0%) have higher livelihood diversification among the rural faming households in the study area. While majority of farming households 55.3% had high extent of livelihood diversification. However, age, household size, farming experience, source of labour and farm size positively influence farmers level of livelihood diversification in the study area. The result also reveals that majority (59.0%) of the respondents were income secure. The result on Probit regression model shows that farming experience, farm income, on-farm diversification, and farm size were the significant effect of livelihood diversification on income security. Thus, the result concludes that majority of farming households had high extent of livelihood diversification. Hence, it was recommended that farm households should diversify their sources of livelihood into non-farm so as to increase their earnings to bridge the poverty gap, also financial markets should be looked into by the government when formulating policy and developmental issues.
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    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.