Isiaka, Z., Oladimeji, Y. U., Ammani, A. A., Mani, J. R., Sani, A. A.
The challenges of food insecurity and hunger in Nigeria have continued to receive attention from experts and the government. To increase both protein intake and food security, the government called for urgent need to increase broiler production at both household and commercial holdings. Primary data obtained in year 2020, from 205 randomly selected broiler farmers was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Tobit regression model. This study assessed small-scale broiler production’s contribution to farmers’ food security in Kaduna state, Nigeria. The result showed that mean age was 40 years and majority of the farmers (89.4%) had household size ranged from 1 – 10 persons. In addition, about 73.8% were members of a cooperative society, about 40.5% of the farmers did not have access to extension service while about 78 % of the farmers have access to credit. About 75.10 percent of broiler farming households were found to be food secure. Of the food insecure households, 6.70 % were marginally food insecure, 4.20 % moderately food insecure and 14.00 % severely food insecure. The regression results showed that coefficients of level of education (0.872), access to credit (0.113), membership of association (0.068), cost of day-old chicks (0.363), cost of feed (0812), cost of labour (-2.211), cost of drugs (-0.263) and income from broiler (0.161) were found to be significant contributing to the food security status of the broiler farming households. Finally, broiler farmers attested to the fact that; lack of constant market (95.8%), high cost of feed (92.7%), high cost of input (88%), and price fluctuations (86.9%) are most severe constrains militating the chances of increasing broiler production. Built on the findings of the study it can be concluded that the proportion of food secure broiler farmers are more than the food insecure broiler farmers in the study area. Education, cost of feed and income from broiler production are variables that significantly influences broiler farmers’ food security status. Therefore, farmers should adopt self-feed formulation using locally available resources that will reduce the cost of feeding and increase their profit margin and thereby their food security status.
{"title":"ASSESSMENT OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SMALL-SCALE BROILER PRODUCTION TO FARMERS’ FOOD SECURITY IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA","authors":"Isiaka, Z., Oladimeji, Y. U., Ammani, A. A., Mani, J. R., Sani, A. A.","doi":"10.59331/njaat.v3i1.470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59331/njaat.v3i1.470","url":null,"abstract":"The challenges of food insecurity and hunger in Nigeria have continued to receive attention from experts and the government. To increase both protein intake and food security, the government called for urgent need to increase broiler production at both household and commercial holdings. Primary data obtained in year 2020, from 205 randomly selected broiler farmers was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Tobit regression model. This study assessed small-scale broiler production’s contribution to farmers’ food security in Kaduna state, Nigeria. The result showed that mean age was 40 years and majority of the farmers (89.4%) had household size ranged from 1 – 10 persons. In addition, about 73.8% were members of a cooperative society, about 40.5% of the farmers did not have access to extension service while about 78 % of the farmers have access to credit. About 75.10 percent of broiler farming households were found to be food secure. Of the food insecure households, 6.70 % were marginally food insecure, 4.20 % moderately food insecure and 14.00 % severely food insecure. The regression results showed that coefficients of level of education (0.872), access to credit (0.113), membership of association (0.068), cost of day-old chicks (0.363), cost of feed (0812), cost of labour (-2.211), cost of drugs (-0.263) and income from broiler (0.161) were found to be significant contributing to the food security status of the broiler farming households. Finally, broiler farmers attested to the fact that; lack of constant market (95.8%), high cost of feed (92.7%), high cost of input (88%), and price fluctuations (86.9%) are most severe constrains militating the chances of increasing broiler production. Built on the findings of the study it can be concluded that the proportion of food secure broiler farmers are more than the food insecure broiler farmers in the study area. Education, cost of feed and income from broiler production are variables that significantly influences broiler farmers’ food security status. Therefore, farmers should adopt self-feed formulation using locally available resources that will reduce the cost of feeding and increase their profit margin and thereby their food security status.","PeriodicalId":346909,"journal":{"name":"Nigerian Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology","volume":"277 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123367832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study analyzed the growth rate, trends and forecast of wheat demand-supply gap in Nigeria. The study made use of time series data spanning from 1990 to 2020. Data on the variables for the study were collected from the archives of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and analyzed using both descriptive such as mean, maximum and minimum with trend graphs and inferential statistics such as Growth model and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model. Findings of the study revealed that supply of wheat in Nigeria within the study period ranges from 32,600 tons to 169,961 tons with mean of 79609.97 tons. Wheat demand ranges between 427575 tons and 8142811 tons with a mean of 4153978 tons during the period of study. However, the demand has not been met as there is a widening demand-supply gap of 99%, indicating that demand of wheat has a higher growth rate than supply. The result further revealed a stagnating instantaneous growth rate (IGR) of 9.2% for demand and a decelerating IGR of 1.4% for supply but an accelerating IGR of 9.4% for the wheat demand-supply gap. The study also forecasted an increase in demand from 8078642.57 tons in 2021 to 10002488.59 tons in 2030 and wheat supply increase from 40306.22 tons in 2021 to 94707.54 tons in 2030. The demand-supply gap will consequently increase from 7860173.39 tons in 2021 to 9628172.33 tons in 2030. Consequently, the study recommended that Government and other players in the sub-sector should encourage the high production of wheat in the country to boast domestic supply so as to reduce the wheat demand-supply gap.
{"title":"GROWTH RATE, TRENDS AND FORECAST ANALYSIS OF WHEAT DEMAND-SUPPLY GAP IN NIGERIA","authors":"Abah, D., Umbugadu, G. B., Ochoche, C. O.","doi":"10.59331/njaat.v3i1.447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59331/njaat.v3i1.447","url":null,"abstract":"The study analyzed the growth rate, trends and forecast of wheat demand-supply gap in Nigeria. The study made use of time series data spanning from 1990 to 2020. Data on the variables for the study were collected from the archives of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and analyzed using both descriptive such as mean, maximum and minimum with trend graphs and inferential statistics such as Growth model and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model. Findings of the study revealed that supply of wheat in Nigeria within the study period ranges from 32,600 tons to 169,961 tons with mean of 79609.97 tons. Wheat demand ranges between 427575 tons and 8142811 tons with a mean of 4153978 tons during the period of study. However, the demand has not been met as there is a widening demand-supply gap of 99%, indicating that demand of wheat has a higher growth rate than supply. The result further revealed a stagnating instantaneous growth rate (IGR) of 9.2% for demand and a decelerating IGR of 1.4% for supply but an accelerating IGR of 9.4% for the wheat demand-supply gap. The study also forecasted an increase in demand from 8078642.57 tons in 2021 to 10002488.59 tons in 2030 and wheat supply increase from 40306.22 tons in 2021 to 94707.54 tons in 2030. The demand-supply gap will consequently increase from 7860173.39 tons in 2021 to 9628172.33 tons in 2030. Consequently, the study recommended that Government and other players in the sub-sector should encourage the high production of wheat in the country to boast domestic supply so as to reduce the wheat demand-supply gap.","PeriodicalId":346909,"journal":{"name":"Nigerian Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114751673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Banseka, R. F., Sani, M. H., Sani, R. M., Murtala, N.
The study was carried out to analyse the costs and return of faro-44 rice farmers’ beneficiaries of the fadama III additional finance II in Taraba State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select the 500 respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean, percentages and tables) and inferential statistics (farm budget techniques or cost-benefit analysis). The findings showed that in wet cropping season, average labour cost of ploughing and harrowing was N23,600.23 (11.84%) with t-value of 7.1268 and significant at P≤0.01. In dry and wet cropping season, cost of land clearing was N32,500.33 (13.18%) and N17,500.00 (8.78%) with t-value of 3.4534 significant at P≤0.01. Cost of planting, harvesting, threshing, winnowing, bagging and were significant at P≤0.01 with their corresponding t-values of 3.5407; 5.9132; 4.4771; 3.5463 and 5.4935, respectively. In dry season, the respondents realized N1,569,780.00 as total revenue from 6,156 kg of paddy rice produced compared to N696,795.00 as total revenue in wet season. Similarly, sale of rice straws yielded total value of N108,800.00 in dry season compared to N29,200.00 in wet season. The respondents consumed 372 bags more rice in wet season valued at N61,380.00 compared to 164 bags in dry season valued at N41,820.00. The results further disclosed that dry season faro-44 rice farmers incurred total cost of N304,738.91 compared to wet season total cost of N225,840.33. Realizable revenue of N1,720,400.00 in dry season and N787,375.00 in wet season with net farm income of N1,415,661.09 and N561,534.67 in dry and wet seasons, respectively. With profit index of 5.74 and 2.82 in dry and wet seasons, respectively, the faro-44 rice farmers realized more profits in dry season as it is also glaring from the rate of returns on investment (RRI) of 4.65 (dry season) and 2.49 RRI in wet season. These results indicated that faro-44 rice farming is profitable in Taraba State meaning that for every N1 invested in faro-44 rice production, the farmers realized N4.65 and N2.49 in dry and wet seasons, respectively. The study concluded that faro-44 rice productivity is profitable in Taraba State; and that ploughing and harrowing was major on-farm rice activity carried out in wet season while land clearing was majorly an activity of dry season. It was recommended that faro-44 rice farmers in Taraba State should be given more cash-for-work supports; advisory services; supports for non-farm activities and capacity building on agribusiness, enterprise of farmers’ choice, record keeping.
{"title":"COSTS AND RETURN OF FARO-44 RICE FARMERS’ BENEFICIARIES OF THE FADAMA III ADDITIONAL FINANCE II IN TARABA STATE, NIGERIA","authors":"Banseka, R. F., Sani, M. H., Sani, R. M., Murtala, N.","doi":"10.59331/njaat.v3i1.454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59331/njaat.v3i1.454","url":null,"abstract":"The study was carried out to analyse the costs and return of faro-44 rice farmers’ beneficiaries of the fadama III additional finance II in Taraba State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select the 500 respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean, percentages and tables) and inferential statistics (farm budget techniques or cost-benefit analysis). The findings showed that in wet cropping season, average labour cost of ploughing and harrowing was N23,600.23 (11.84%) with t-value of 7.1268 and significant at P≤0.01. In dry and wet cropping season, cost of land clearing was N32,500.33 (13.18%) and N17,500.00 (8.78%) with t-value of 3.4534 significant at P≤0.01. Cost of planting, harvesting, threshing, winnowing, bagging and were significant at P≤0.01 with their corresponding t-values of 3.5407; 5.9132; 4.4771; 3.5463 and 5.4935, respectively. In dry season, the respondents realized N1,569,780.00 as total revenue from 6,156 kg of paddy rice produced compared to N696,795.00 as total revenue in wet season. Similarly, sale of rice straws yielded total value of N108,800.00 in dry season compared to N29,200.00 in wet season. The respondents consumed 372 bags more rice in wet season valued at N61,380.00 compared to 164 bags in dry season valued at N41,820.00. The results further disclosed that dry season faro-44 rice farmers incurred total cost of N304,738.91 compared to wet season total cost of N225,840.33. Realizable revenue of N1,720,400.00 in dry season and N787,375.00 in wet season with net farm income of N1,415,661.09 and N561,534.67 in dry and wet seasons, respectively. With profit index of 5.74 and 2.82 in dry and wet seasons, respectively, the faro-44 rice farmers realized more profits in dry season as it is also glaring from the rate of returns on investment (RRI) of 4.65 (dry season) and 2.49 RRI in wet season. These results indicated that faro-44 rice farming is profitable in Taraba State meaning that for every N1 invested in faro-44 rice production, the farmers realized N4.65 and N2.49 in dry and wet seasons, respectively. The study concluded that faro-44 rice productivity is profitable in Taraba State; and that ploughing and harrowing was major on-farm rice activity carried out in wet season while land clearing was majorly an activity of dry season. It was recommended that faro-44 rice farmers in Taraba State should be given more cash-for-work supports; advisory services; supports for non-farm activities and capacity building on agribusiness, enterprise of farmers’ choice, record keeping.","PeriodicalId":346909,"journal":{"name":"Nigerian Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122676001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Surajo, A., Fagam, A. S., Ali, G., Sabo, M. U., Bindawa, M. A., Yahaya, S. U.
Field trials were conducted at the Jigawa state Horticultural Farm during 2019, 2020 and 2021 wet seasons to investigate the effect of phosphorus levels and sowing date on the growth and yield of lablab varieties (Dan Farankachi and Dan Inusa). The treatments consisted of four levels of phosphorus (0, 20, 40 and 60 kgPha-1) in the form of single superphosphate and three sowing dates 1st July (S1), 15th July (S2) and 29th July (S3), laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) and replicated three times. Data were collected on canopy height, number of branches, leaf area index and pod yield per hectare. The results showed that application of 60 kgPha-1 and 40 kgPha-1 resulted to highest growth in terms of canopy height at 4WAS and 8WAS in 2019, 2021 wet season and 2020 wet season and combined, respectively, sowing three had taller plants at 4WAS, and highly significant (P≤0.01) varietal differences at 12WAS in 2020 and 2021 wet seasons, variety was highly significant (P≤0.01) at 12 WAS in 2020 wet season and combined. The results showed that application of 60 kgPha-1 at 4WAS and 12WAS were highly significant (P≤0.01), and sowing three resulted to highest number of branches per plant at 4WAS. It was further reported that, leaf area index were highly significant (P≤0.01) interns of phosphorus application and sowing dates at 4 and 12WAS, pod yield was also highly significant (P≤0.01) in all the seasons. Based on the result of this study, it could be concluded that application of 60 kg P/ha, Dan Inusa and sowing date of 29th July could be adopted by farmers for better yield of lablab in the study area, hence recommended for better yield.
{"title":"EFFECT OF DIFFERENT PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZATION AND SOWING DATES ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF LABLAB (Lablab purpureus L. walp) VARIETIES IN SEMI-ARID ECOLOGICAL ZONE OF RINGIM, JIGAWA STATE, NIGERIA","authors":"Surajo, A., Fagam, A. S., Ali, G., Sabo, M. U., Bindawa, M. A., Yahaya, S. U.","doi":"10.59331/njaat.v3i1.464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59331/njaat.v3i1.464","url":null,"abstract":"Field trials were conducted at the Jigawa state Horticultural Farm during 2019, 2020 and 2021 wet seasons to investigate the effect of phosphorus levels and sowing date on the growth and yield of lablab varieties (Dan Farankachi and Dan Inusa). The treatments consisted of four levels of phosphorus (0, 20, 40 and 60 kgPha-1) in the form of single superphosphate and three sowing dates 1st July (S1), 15th July (S2) and 29th July (S3), laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) and replicated three times. Data were collected on canopy height, number of branches, leaf area index and pod yield per hectare. The results showed that application of 60 kgPha-1 and 40 kgPha-1 resulted to highest growth in terms of canopy height at 4WAS and 8WAS in 2019, 2021 wet season and 2020 wet season and combined, respectively, sowing three had taller plants at 4WAS, and highly significant (P≤0.01) varietal differences at 12WAS in 2020 and 2021 wet seasons, variety was highly significant (P≤0.01) at 12 WAS in 2020 wet season and combined. The results showed that application of 60 kgPha-1 at 4WAS and 12WAS were highly significant (P≤0.01), and sowing three resulted to highest number of branches per plant at 4WAS. It was further reported that, leaf area index were highly significant (P≤0.01) interns of phosphorus application and sowing dates at 4 and 12WAS, pod yield was also highly significant (P≤0.01) in all the seasons. Based on the result of this study, it could be concluded that application of 60 kg P/ha, Dan Inusa and sowing date of 29th July could be adopted by farmers for better yield of lablab in the study area, hence recommended for better yield.","PeriodicalId":346909,"journal":{"name":"Nigerian Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121027662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study examines the factors influencing youth participation in agricultural business in the western agricultural zone of Bauchi state. The data were collected using structured questionnaire and were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Multi stage random sampling technique was used in selecting 384 respondents. The results revealed that 36.4% and 34.5% of the respondents were within the age bracket of 25-29 and almost all (97.3%) of the respondents were males and most (63.6%) were married. The result also showed that more than half (59.1%) of the respondents had primary education while 24.5%, and 16.4% of the respondents had secondary, and higher education, respectively. The results further reveal that 41.8% of the respondents had 1-2 persons as their households. The occupational distribution of respondents showed that most (86.4%) of the respondents were business people (traders) and 13.6% were civil servants and had been in agribusiness for 1-5 years (10.0%), 39.1% for 5-9 years with majority (61.6%) not having agribusiness background while only 38.4% indicated to have agribusiness background. Different types of agribusiness youths participated in the study area were identified in which almost all (97.6%), (94.3%) and (86,5%) of the youths participated in livestock business, agro-marketing and crop production, respectively with majority (62.4%). The results further depicted educational level, access to extension and access to credit were found to be positively significant at 5% levels of significance. The constraints to youths’ participation in agribusiness were poor infrastructure such as roads, electricity, derailed support for local industries and negative impacts of climate change were ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd. it was concluded that youth’s participation in agribusiness in the study area is low with more participation in crop and livestock production,level of education, access to extension service and credit facilities were significantly influencing youth participation in agribusiness (P = 0.045, P = 0,043 and P = 0.037 respectively). A lot of challenges constrained youth’s participation in agribusiness but they are mostly institutional. The study recommended that; extension and advisory services be improved to enable access to timely and relevant agricultural information, capacity building programmes should be organized to boost the skills of the youth in agricultural businesses, robust agricultural policies should be formulated and implemented. There should be efforts to improve youth attitudes by promoting the willingness and ability to engage in agribusiness, innovative ideas, and positive perceptions and access to credit facilities should be increased through loans from commercial banks cooperative savings.
{"title":"ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS INFLUENCING YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN AGRICULTURAL-BUSINESS IN WESTERN AGRICULTURAL ZONE OF BAUCHI STATE, NIGERIA","authors":"Maigari, N. I., Abu, I. A., Sulaiman, A.","doi":"10.59331/njaat.v3i1.473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59331/njaat.v3i1.473","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines the factors influencing youth participation in agricultural business in the western agricultural zone of Bauchi state. The data were collected using structured questionnaire and were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Multi stage random sampling technique was used in selecting 384 respondents. The results revealed that 36.4% and 34.5% of the respondents were within the age bracket of 25-29 and almost all (97.3%) of the respondents were males and most (63.6%) were married. The result also showed that more than half (59.1%) of the respondents had primary education while 24.5%, and 16.4% of the respondents had secondary, and higher education, respectively. The results further reveal that 41.8% of the respondents had 1-2 persons as their households. The occupational distribution of respondents showed that most (86.4%) of the respondents were business people (traders) and 13.6% were civil servants and had been in agribusiness for 1-5 years (10.0%), 39.1% for 5-9 years with majority (61.6%) not having agribusiness background while only 38.4% indicated to have agribusiness background. Different types of agribusiness youths participated in the study area were identified in which almost all (97.6%), (94.3%) and (86,5%) of the youths participated in livestock business, agro-marketing and crop production, respectively with majority (62.4%). The results further depicted educational level, access to extension and access to credit were found to be positively significant at 5% levels of significance. The constraints to youths’ participation in agribusiness were poor infrastructure such as roads, electricity, derailed support for local industries and negative impacts of climate change were ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd. it was concluded that youth’s participation in agribusiness in the study area is low with more participation in crop and livestock production,level of education, access to extension service and credit facilities were significantly influencing youth participation in agribusiness (P = 0.045, P = 0,043 and P = 0.037 respectively). A lot of challenges constrained youth’s participation in agribusiness but they are mostly institutional. The study recommended that; extension and advisory services be improved to enable access to timely and relevant agricultural information, capacity building programmes should be organized to boost the skills of the youth in agricultural businesses, robust agricultural policies should be formulated and implemented. There should be efforts to improve youth attitudes by promoting the willingness and ability to engage in agribusiness, innovative ideas, and positive perceptions and access to credit facilities should be increased through loans from commercial banks cooperative savings.","PeriodicalId":346909,"journal":{"name":"Nigerian Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128235826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study assessed the perception of poultry farmers on the performance of extension agents on service delivery in western agricultural zone of Bauchi State, Nigeria. Four out of seven local governments areas with high concentration of poultry farmers were purposively selected. The data were collected from 120 poultry farmers using structured questionnaire. The data obtained were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of the study showed that 78.3% of the respondents were married with 72.5% female and having mean age of 35.5. Majority (70%) have farm size below 200 birds, 82.5% of respondents had one form of formal education or the other. About 47% of the respondents had between 6-10years farming experience with 65% of them operating poultry farming as secondary occupation. The study established that the extension agents were perceived by the farmers having adequate knowledge of subject matters (mean = 4.26), good communication skills (mean = 4.45). The result of regression analysis showed that all the predictors yielded significant beta weights with their varied t-values which were all statistically significant (P<0.05) except education level. Age and sex of the respondents had negative but significant effect (P<0.01) on the perceived effectiveness. Based on this study, it was concluded that the extension service delivery in the zone was effective. The recommendation made was that more extension staff should be employed and deployed to poultry production areas.
{"title":"PERCEPTION OF POULTRY FARMERS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF EXTENSION SERVICE DELIVERY IN WESTERN ZONE OF BAUCHI STATE, NIGERIA","authors":"Sani, Y., Abdurrahman, S., Idi, S., Aminu, B. A.","doi":"10.59331/njaat.v3i1.456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59331/njaat.v3i1.456","url":null,"abstract":"The study assessed the perception of poultry farmers on the performance of extension agents on service delivery in western agricultural zone of Bauchi State, Nigeria. Four out of seven local governments areas with high concentration of poultry farmers were purposively selected. The data were collected from 120 poultry farmers using structured questionnaire. The data obtained were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of the study showed that 78.3% of the respondents were married with 72.5% female and having mean age of 35.5. Majority (70%) have farm size below 200 birds, 82.5% of respondents had one form of formal education or the other. About 47% of the respondents had between 6-10years farming experience with 65% of them operating poultry farming as secondary occupation. The study established that the extension agents were perceived by the farmers having adequate knowledge of subject matters (mean = 4.26), good communication skills (mean = 4.45). The result of regression analysis showed that all the predictors yielded significant beta weights with their varied t-values which were all statistically significant (P<0.05) except education level. Age and sex of the respondents had negative but significant effect (P<0.01) on the perceived effectiveness. Based on this study, it was concluded that the extension service delivery in the zone was effective. The recommendation made was that more extension staff should be employed and deployed to poultry production areas.","PeriodicalId":346909,"journal":{"name":"Nigerian Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115963920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammed, F. A., Sani, M. H., Ibrahim, A. A., Jibril, S. A.
This study was carried out to analyzed the socio-economic and institutional characteristics of wheat farmers in Jigawa State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 503 wheat farmers (352 men and 151 women) from the study area. Data were collected through the use of structured questionnaire and analyzed; using descriptive and inferential statistics (Tobit regression). The result revealed that Majority (70%) of the respondents were male and 30% were female. About 56.0% male and 49.0% women respondents were within the age bracket of 30-39 years and 20-29 years respectively. It was revealed that 91.5% male and 95.4% female respondents were married. Furthermore, 58.3% of the female respondents had primary level of education. Meanwhile, 55.4% male and 56.3% female respondents had a household size between 6-10 persons and 1-5 persons respectively. Majority (64.2%) of the female respondents had a farm size between 0.5-1.0 hectares. About 54.8% male and 67.5% female respondents had 6-10 years and 1-5 years of farming experience. Furthermore, 68.5% of the male respondents had access to extension from Jigawa Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (JARDA) while, 51.7% women had no contact. On the other hand, 32.4% of male had extension contact twice a year while 32.5% female had contact once a year. The result further revealed that 64.9% female respondents practice mixed cropping. 52,0% male practice bed drill method of sowing. The result further shows that majority (63.3% males and 67.5% female) respondents use the LCRIWHIT-4 (Atilla-Gan-Atilla) variety of wheat, 53.0% of female respondents applied organic manure to their farmland and 72.2% of the female respondents used machine in processing the wheat grains. Majority (68%) female respondents used wheat to prepare traditional dishes. The result further shows that 61.6% of the female respondents believed that high quality wheat variety is rewarded by substantial price premium. Tobit regression estimate of the extent of participation in wheat farming had a chi-square of 54.43 and significant at P≤0.01 level and Log likelihood of 364. Men and women participated in wheat farming, except that, on average male respondents had better access to land, inputs and extension services than the female wheat farmers. Policy makers should ensure that farmers receive the latest information on wheat agronomy through regular trainings.
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Yerima, J., Abubakar, M., Kalla, D. J. U., Mancha, Y. P.
Experiment was carried out to evaluate the response of growing Yankasa rams to complete sorghum stover based diets containing varying levels of different nitrogen sources with rumen buffer plant on digestible organic matter fermented in the rumen (DOMR), microbial nitrogen (MN) and rumen metabolites. Complete diets containing 16% crude protein (CP) was formulated for the experiment. Urea was incorporated into the diets at 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2% with cottonseed cake at 20, 15, 10, 5 and 0% and designated as diet 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5% respectively. Twenty growing Yankasa rams were used for the experiment and randomly allocated to five treatment groups of four animals each in completely randomized designed (CRD). Rams were fed experimental diets and water ad libitum. The result reveals (P<0.05) difference in DOMR and MN. Higher mean values of 0.37, 0.36 and 0.34 kg/d DOMR were recorded in animal fed diet 2, 3 and 5 with the least value 0.22 kg/day recorded in animals fed diet 4. MN production were higher 11.72, 11.65 and 10.81 g/day in animals fed diet 2, 3 and 5 while the least 7.03 g/day in animals fed diet 4. (P<0.05) difference were observed in rumen pH 0 hour before feeding, total volatile fatty acids (TVFA), acetate, propionate, butyrate and rumen NH3-N 0 hour before and 4 hours after feeding across the diets. NH3-N was within the optimal levels for microbial activities. Inclusion of urea at graded levels of up to 2% in a complete diet has no detrimental effect on performance, DOMR, MN production and rumen parameters. Diet 3 is therefore recommended for growing Yankasa rams.
{"title":"MICROBIAL PROTEIN PRODUCTION AND RUMEN METABOLITES PARAMETERS OF YANKASA RAMS FED DIETS CONTAINING DIFFERENT NITROGEN SOURCES WITH BALANITES AEGYPTIACA LEAF POWDER AS RUMEN BUFFER","authors":"Yerima, J., Abubakar, M., Kalla, D. J. U., Mancha, Y. P.","doi":"10.59331/njaat.v3i1.450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59331/njaat.v3i1.450","url":null,"abstract":"Experiment was carried out to evaluate the response of growing Yankasa rams to complete sorghum stover based diets containing varying levels of different nitrogen sources with rumen buffer plant on digestible organic matter fermented in the rumen (DOMR), microbial nitrogen (MN) and rumen metabolites. Complete diets containing 16% crude protein (CP) was formulated for the experiment. Urea was incorporated into the diets at 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2% with cottonseed cake at 20, 15, 10, 5 and 0% and designated as diet 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5% respectively. Twenty growing Yankasa rams were used for the experiment and randomly allocated to five treatment groups of four animals each in completely randomized designed (CRD). Rams were fed experimental diets and water ad libitum. The result reveals (P<0.05) difference in DOMR and MN. Higher mean values of 0.37, 0.36 and 0.34 kg/d DOMR were recorded in animal fed diet 2, 3 and 5 with the least value 0.22 kg/day recorded in animals fed diet 4. MN production were higher 11.72, 11.65 and 10.81 g/day in animals fed diet 2, 3 and 5 while the least 7.03 g/day in animals fed diet 4. (P<0.05) difference were observed in rumen pH 0 hour before feeding, total volatile fatty acids (TVFA), acetate, propionate, butyrate and rumen NH3-N 0 hour before and 4 hours after feeding across the diets. NH3-N was within the optimal levels for microbial activities. Inclusion of urea at graded levels of up to 2% in a complete diet has no detrimental effect on performance, DOMR, MN production and rumen parameters. Diet 3 is therefore recommended for growing Yankasa rams.","PeriodicalId":346909,"journal":{"name":"Nigerian Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131625629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammed, R., Murtala, N., Danwanka, H. A., Haruna, U.
The study examined household sugar consumption pattern in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Cross –sectional data were collected from 412 households using multistage sampling technique. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Linear regression model and budget share index. The socio-economic factors influencing sugar consumption in northern zone of Bauchi State were; age, household size (P<0.01), income (P<0.05), educational level and primary occupation (P<0.1), with R2 value of 0.685. The significant variables that influenced household sugar consumption in central zone were monthly income (P<0.05), cost of sugar and household size (P<0.01) and average monthly total food expenditure (P<0.05); with R2 value of 0.497. In the western zone sugar consumption was influenced by average monthly income and household size (P<0.01), cost of sugar (P<0.05), and primary occupation (P<0.1) with an R2 value of 0.375 and the F-value of all the three zones were significant (P<0.01). The central zone had the highest sugar budget share of 8.70%, followed by western zone (6.59%), while Northern zone had 5.20%. The result showed that, in northern zone the respondents spent 60.91% of their household budget on food, while in central and western zones it was 59.27% and 55.06% respectively. Most of the respondents, 89.4% and 84.2% in central and western zones, respectively reported price as a major constraint to sugar consumption; likewise, 79.7% in northern zone. Income is the second constraint to sugar consumption in all the three zones with 73.4%, 84.6% and 77.6% in northern, central and western zones, respectively. Household size ranked third, the northern zone had 51.0%, central zone 47.1% and western zone 32.7%. A small percentage of the respondents reported health as a constraint to sugar consumption, northern zone 23.1%, central 25.0% and western zone 24.2%. The research concluded that socioeconomic factors have an influence on sugar consumption of the household. The study therefore, recommended Policies and programs toward sugar sector in Nigeria should be improve and implemented toward self-sufficiency in sugar production. Thus, filling the demand and supply gap of the product in the country.
{"title":"SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS INFLUENCING SUGAR CONSUMPTION PATTERN IN BAUCHI STATE NIGERIA","authors":"Mohammed, R., Murtala, N., Danwanka, H. A., Haruna, U.","doi":"10.59331/njaat.v3i1.469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59331/njaat.v3i1.469","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined household sugar consumption pattern in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Cross –sectional data were collected from 412 households using multistage sampling technique. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Linear regression model and budget share index. The socio-economic factors influencing sugar consumption in northern zone of Bauchi State were; age, household size (P<0.01), income (P<0.05), educational level and primary occupation (P<0.1), with R2 value of 0.685. The significant variables that influenced household sugar consumption in central zone were monthly income (P<0.05), cost of sugar and household size (P<0.01) and average monthly total food expenditure (P<0.05); with R2 value of 0.497. In the western zone sugar consumption was influenced by average monthly income and household size (P<0.01), cost of sugar (P<0.05), and primary occupation (P<0.1) with an R2 value of 0.375 and the F-value of all the three zones were significant (P<0.01). The central zone had the highest sugar budget share of 8.70%, followed by western zone (6.59%), while Northern zone had 5.20%. The result showed that, in northern zone the respondents spent 60.91% of their household budget on food, while in central and western zones it was 59.27% and 55.06% respectively. Most of the respondents, 89.4% and 84.2% in central and western zones, respectively reported price as a major constraint to sugar consumption; likewise, 79.7% in northern zone. Income is the second constraint to sugar consumption in all the three zones with 73.4%, 84.6% and 77.6% in northern, central and western zones, respectively. Household size ranked third, the northern zone had 51.0%, central zone 47.1% and western zone 32.7%. A small percentage of the respondents reported health as a constraint to sugar consumption, northern zone 23.1%, central 25.0% and western zone 24.2%. The research concluded that socioeconomic factors have an influence on sugar consumption of the household. The study therefore, recommended Policies and programs toward sugar sector in Nigeria should be improve and implemented toward self-sufficiency in sugar production. Thus, filling the demand and supply gap of the product in the country.","PeriodicalId":346909,"journal":{"name":"Nigerian Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121764239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Surajo, A., Fagam, A. S., Ali, G., Sabo, M. U., Bindawa, M. A., Yahaya, S. U.
Field experiment was conducted at the Jigawa State Horticultural Farm Ringim, during 2019, 2020 and 2021 wet seasons to investigate the effect of phosphorus levels and sowing date on the yield and yield components response of lablab varieties. The treatments consisted of four phosphorus levels (0, 20, 40 and 60 kg P/ha), three sowing dates (1st July, 15th July and 29th July) and two varieties of lablab (Dan Farankachi and Dan Inusa), which were factorially combined to give 24 treatments combination and laid out in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) replicated three times. Data were collected on number of root nodules per plant, number of days to physiological maturity and seed yield per hectare, and subjected to analysis of variance and Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT) was adopted in separating the means. The results showed that, application of 60 kg P/ha produced significantly higher yield characters of lablab. In terms of date of sowing, sowing lablab on 29th of July was found to be statistically (P ≤ 0.01) better in promoting yield of the crop than the other sowing dates. Variety Dan Inusa proved to be significantly (P ≤ 0.01) better than Dan Farankachi throughout the study period. Based on the result of this study, it could be concluded that application of 60 kg P/ha, Dan Inusa and sowing date of 29th July could be adopted by farmers for better yield of lablab in the study area, hence recommended for better yield.
在2019年、2020年和2021年雨季，在吉林吉加瓦国家园艺农场进行了田间试验，研究了磷水平和播期对实验室品种产量和产量成分响应的影响。4个磷水平(0、20、40和60 kg P/ hm2)， 3个播期(7月1日、7月15日和7月29日)和2个lablab品种(Dan Farankachi和Dan Inusa)进行因子组合，共24个处理组合，采用随机完全区组设计(RCBD)重复3次。收集单株根瘤数、生理成熟天数和每公顷种子产量数据，进行方差分析，采用Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT)进行均值分离。结果表明，施用60 kg磷/ hm2显著提高了lablab的产量性状。从播种日期来看，7月29日播种lablab对作物的增产效果优于其他播种日期(P≤0.01)。在整个研究期间，品种丹·伊努沙显著(P≤0.01)优于丹·法拉卡奇。综上所述，研究区农民可采用施磷60 kg / hm2、丹稻和7月29日播期来提高实验室产量。
{"title":"EFFECT OF DIFFERENT PHOSPHORUS LEVELS AND SOWING DATES ON YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENT OF LABLAB (Lablab purpureus L. walp) VARIETIES IN RINGIM JIGAWA STATE, NIGERIA","authors":"Surajo, A., Fagam, A. S., Ali, G., Sabo, M. U., Bindawa, M. A., Yahaya, S. U.","doi":"10.59331/njaat.v3i1.463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59331/njaat.v3i1.463","url":null,"abstract":"Field experiment was conducted at the Jigawa State Horticultural Farm Ringim, during 2019, 2020 and 2021 wet seasons to investigate the effect of phosphorus levels and sowing date on the yield and yield components response of lablab varieties. The treatments consisted of four phosphorus levels (0, 20, 40 and 60 kg P/ha), three sowing dates (1st July, 15th July and 29th July) and two varieties of lablab (Dan Farankachi and Dan Inusa), which were factorially combined to give 24 treatments combination and laid out in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) replicated three times. Data were collected on number of root nodules per plant, number of days to physiological maturity and seed yield per hectare, and subjected to analysis of variance and Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT) was adopted in separating the means. The results showed that, application of 60 kg P/ha produced significantly higher yield characters of lablab. In terms of date of sowing, sowing lablab on 29th of July was found to be statistically (P ≤ 0.01) better in promoting yield of the crop than the other sowing dates. Variety Dan Inusa proved to be significantly (P ≤ 0.01) better than Dan Farankachi throughout the study period. Based on the result of this study, it could be concluded that application of 60 kg P/ha, Dan Inusa and sowing date of 29th July could be adopted by farmers for better yield of lablab in the study area, hence recommended for better yield.","PeriodicalId":346909,"journal":{"name":"Nigerian Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121098587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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