Rural Women’s Participation in the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme in Abia State Nigeria
Keywords:
Rural women, Participation, Development Intervention, Growth Enhancement Support Scheme.Abstract
This work assessed participation of rural women in Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS) in Abia State. Multistage random sampling was used to select 120 farmers. Results indicated 35.3% of the registered women participated in the programme while 62.93% of them rated GESS as moderately effective. However, lack of electricity to power their phone (59.48%), delay in receiving SMS (57.75%) and inadequate quantity of inputs received (62.06%) were constraints to active participation of women in GESS. The Probit estimate of the relationship between the age, marital status, awareness, level of education, family size, extension contact, membership to social organization  and monthly income of the women and their level of participation in the Scheme showed that coefficient of awareness (0.205) was positive and significant while age (-1.105*) and monthly income (-1.915*) were negative and also significant. It is therefore recommended that the government improve on the technicalities of Sms delivery and the quantity of input through the scheme.ÂReferences
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2016-12-02
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Umeh, O. J., Mba, G. O., Aghale, N. D., & Nwachukwu, I. M. (2016). Rural Women’s Participation in the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme in Abia State Nigeria. Journal of Agricultural Extension, 20(2). Retrieved from https://journal.aesonnigeria.org/index.php/jae/article/view/623
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