Gender Issues of Labour Participation in Vegetable Production in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State (original) (raw)
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The study is on the Assessment of Women Participation in Vegetable Production in Jere Local Government of Borno State, Nigeria. Sixty (60) women farmers were sampled through purposive random sampling procedure. Descriptive statistics such as Frequency, percentages, means and ranking were used to analyze the data. The results on socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents revealed that majority (36.0%) of the respondents were within the age group of 20-40years. The respondents who were married was 48.0% and on number of dependents, the result shows that 53.0% of the respondents had 5-10 persons and only 16.7% had above 10 numbers of dependents. The result also revealed that majority (43.4%) of the respondents attended Qur’anic education, 3.3% attended tertiary education while those with no formal education were only 3.3%. The larger proportion (43.3%) of the farmers in the study area had less than 5 years of farming experience and only 15.0% had 16 years and above farming experience. The result on the farmers’ occupation shows that majority (80.0%) of the respondents was farmers and only 3.3% were artisans. The result further revealed that larger proportion (43.3%) of the farmers were found to be operating on small scale with farm size of less than 1 hectare and only 3.3% had farm land of above 3 hectares. The result on women participation vegetable production indicates that 4 out of the 6 types of vegetable produced by them were categorized into high level of participation. These are tomato (mean = 2.0), onion (mean = 1.8), cabbage (mean = 1.7) and sorrel (mean = 1.7). Therefore tomato, onion, cabbage and sorrel ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th respectively while pepper and carrot ranked 5th and 6th respectively. The result on the constraint of vegetable production based on ranking were lack of modern storage method, inadequate capital and poor support from family and community with their ranking 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th respectively. It is concluded that women farmers highly participates in vegetable production and recommended that the community and private sector together with government should join hand to open up the local government to the outside world by providing the necessary assistances to women farmers.
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This study analysed women participation in agricultural production in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria. It investigated the women’s access to economic resources and examined the influence of selected socio-economic characteristics of women and access to economic resources on their participation in agricultural production. Multistage random sampling technique was used to select 50 respondents for this study. The research was carried out with the use of well structured interview schedule to obtain the necessary data. Both descriptive and inferential analytical tools were employed. Probit analysis was employed to investigate the determinants of women participation in agricultural production in the study area. The empirical results revealed that household size, marital status and local taboos had significant impact on the women participation in agricultural production; all at 5% probability level with a log likelihood of -96.160222, pseudo R2 of 0.0875 and LR statistic of 18.44 which shows that the model has a good fit. Most of the respondents were illiterate with non-formal educational status which directly informed their participation in agricultural production. The study concludes that there is high rate of involvement of women in agricultural production in the study area; hence the role of some socio-economic variables as well as assets such as social capital, landed-property, cash as well as savings are central in determining the participation level or perception on agricultural production.
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This study analyzed the effects of socioeconomic characteristics of women vegetable farmers on their gross margin in Iwo Zone of Osun State of Nigeria. Multistage sampling was used to select one hundred and thirty (130) women vegetable farmers as the sample for the study. Data was collected by means of structured interview schedule. Information was obtained on age, marital status, years of formal education, farming experience, land ownership, costs and revenue. Percentages, Means and Frequencies were the main descriptive statistical tools utilized. While the inferential statistics used are Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Multiple Regression Analysis. The findings revealed that majority (76.15%) of women vegetable farmers fall between the ages of 41-60 years with a mean age of 50.85 years. 42.31% of women vegetable farmers had primary education. While 24.61% receive secondary education. None of the women vegetable farmers receive post secondary education. Majority (31.54%) of the women vegetable farmers acquired the land they are using for farming through gift. 22.31% of the women vegetable farmer obtained their land through inheritance, while 15.38% of the women vegetable farmers acquired their land through purchase, tenancy and other means. All (100%) of the women vegetable farmers are married. The mean gross margin of women vegetable farmers is #33047. Four variables were significant at 5% level. These are years of formal education, land ownership, cost of chemicals and cost of labour. There is no significant difference in the socioeconomic characteristics of women vegetable farmers in the study area. Also, there is no significant difference in the gross margin of women vegetable farmers group in the study area. The mean gross margin (#33047) obtained from the study indicated that vegetable production is an essential income earner for rural women in the study area..
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