Male and Female Participation in Selected Agricultural Development Programmes in Edo state
Keywords:
Participation, gender equity, intervention programme, agricultural developmentAbstract
The study assessed the level of male and female equality in participating in agricultural development programmes in Edo state. Purposive sampling was used to select 135 respondents made up of both men (79) and women (56) from the intervention programmes present in the three selected LGAs. Data were collected from the respondents using questionnaire and interview schedule. The results show that the respondents had mean age of approximately 45 years; most of the respondents were married and had one form of formal education or the other. The male had grand participation mean of 2.94 and participation index of 0.74, while the female participants had grand participation mean of 3.52 and participation index of 0.88. It was concluded that female farmers in Edo State had a higher level of participation than their male counterparts.References
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Gujarati, D.N. (2003). Basic econometrics. New York: Tata McGraw-Hill Edition.
Marc, J.C and L,Mamusha (2011) Agricultural extension services and gender equality: An institutional analysis of four districts in Ethiopia: In International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) discussion paper 01094.
Nto-rue, R.T. (1993). The challenges of community development. Port Harcourt: Dominion Communications.
Ofuoku and Urang (2012). Effect of cohension on loan repayment in farmers’ cooperative societies in Delta State, Nigeria. Agricultural Science and Practice Journal, 83 – 84 (3 - 4), 131 – 139.
Ofuoku, A.U. (2004). Analysis of the performance of development projects in Delta Central Senatorial District, Delta State, Nigeria. M.Sc dissertation, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt.
Ofuoku, A.U. (2011). Gender representation in agricultural extension workforce and its implications for agricultural advisory services. Tropical Agricultural Research and Extension, 14(2), 37 – 40
Ofuoku, A.U. (2013). Willingness of farmers to participate in farmers’ groups. Journal of Extension Systems, 29(1), 51 – 63.
Ofuoku, A.U. and Chukwuji, C.O. (2012). Farmers’ group growth trend in Delta State, Nigeria. Global Journal of Science Frontier Research: Agriculture and Biology, 12(3), 62 - 68
Ofuoku, A.U. and Emuh, F.N. (2009). African rural women in agricultural and rural development: Challenges and opportunities. In Agbamu, J.U. (Ed.), Perspectives in Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, pp 348 – 360, Owerri, Nigeria: Springfield Publishers.
Ofuoku, A.U., Enaikele, M. and Nnodim, A.U. (2008). Cohesiveness of fish farmers’ groups in Southern Nigeria. Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 3(3), 16 – 21.
Ogato, G.S. (2009). Gender roles in crop production and management practice in Delta North Zone, Nigeria, M.sc Thesis, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria.
Opio,F.(2003). Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture with Special Reference to Uganda:Challenges and Prospect in African. Crop Science Conference Proceedings, 6, 699-703.
Pena. C, Webb,P. and Haddad, L. (1996). Women’s Economic Advancement through agricultural Change: A Review of Donor Experience. Food Consumption and Nutrition Division discussion Paper 10, Washington, DC.: IFPRI.
Sabo, E. (2006). Participatory assessment of the impact of Women in Agriculture Programme of Borno- Nigeria.Journal of Tropical Agriculture, 44(1-2),52-56
UzokweU.N.andOfuoku, A.U. (2006). Changes in gender division of agricultural tasks in Delta State, Nigeria and Implications for agricultural extension services. Extension Farming System Journal, 2(1), 91-96.
World Bank (1992).Raising women farmer’s productivity in Sub- Saharan African.Washington, D. C.: World Bank.
World Bank (2007). World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development. Washington, DC.: World Bank.
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2017-01-31
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Uzokwe, U. N., Ofuoku, A. U., & Dafe, D. O. (2017). Male and Female Participation in Selected Agricultural Development Programmes in Edo state. Journal of Agricultural Extension, 21(1). Retrieved from https://journal.aesonnigeria.org/index.php/jae/article/view/702
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