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Item Effect of Climate Smart Agriculture on Food Security Status of Arable Crops Farmers in Niger State, Nigeria(International Journal of Novel Research and Development (IJNRD), 9(6), 2024) Mohammad, H.U.; Shuaibu, U.; Abdullahi, A.; Mohammed, I.N.The study was conducted to examined the effect of climate smart agriculture on food security status of arable crops farmers in Niger state, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 150 respondents for the study. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean, percentage, frequency distribution and inferential statistics such as ordered probit regression F-G-T Model and binary probit regression. The study revealed that majority of the arable crop farmers in the study area had average age of 48 years and married with an average household size of 6 persons. Furthermore, most of the respondents had formal education, with an average of 8 years of formal education, less than average had access to extension services and while membership of cooperative was low. The study also revealed that rotational grazing (𝑋̅ =7.09), planting of cover crops (𝑋̅ =6.76), planting of drought resistance varieties (𝑋̅ =6.57), use of compost and mulch (𝑋̅ =6.54) and capturing and storing water (𝑋̅ =6.35) were the water management strategies CSA adopted. Also, the use of green manure (𝑋̅ =3.32), no-till or zero tillage practice (𝑋̅ =3.16) and agro-forestry (𝑋̅ =3.04) were the conservative CSA strategies adopted. Similarly, the soil and land management CSA strategies adopted include; afforestation (𝑋̅ =6.28), ploughing land in direct direction (𝑋̅ =5.94), crop rotation (𝑋̅ =5.91) and shifting cultivation (𝑋̅ =5.94). the result also shows that level of education, complexity of CSA, access to government support, family labour, relative advantage of CSA and compatibility of CSA were the significant factors influencing adoption of climate smart agricultural technologies in the study area. Furthermore, the result shows that more than half (52.1%) of the arable farmers were food secure. Hence it was recommended that the arable farmers should be encouraged to sustain adoption different CSA practices to enhanced their agricultural productivity.Item Factors influencing Women Participation in Savings Mobilization Scheme in Benue State(Journal of Agripreneurship and Sustainable Development, 4(4), 2021) Lawal, M.; Salihu, I.T.; Tsado, J.H.; Umar, I. S.; Abdullahi, A.The study determines factors influencing women participation in saving mobilization scheme (SMS) in Benue State, Nigeria. A sample size of 137 omen were selected from the State using four-stage sampling techniques. Structured questionnaire complimented with interview scheduled were used for data collection. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (means, percentages and frequency counts), Livelihood Status Index (LSI) and Ordinary Least Square regression. The result revealed that rural women participated commonly in saving money through esusu (X ̅ = 3.60, weekly thrift contribution (X ̅ = 3.45) as well as production and marketing cooperative (X ̅= 3.14). The findings also revealed that 52.6% of the respondents had high livelihood status during participation in SMS. The coefficient of age (0.050444), marital status (0.57432), household size (0.073597), years in education (-0.9544), membership of cooperative (0.432058) and access to credit (-0.08612) had significant influence on women level of participation in SMS. The study concluded that more than half of the respondents had high livelihood status during SMS. Also, the coefficient of age, marital status, household size, years of education, member cooperative and access to credit have influence on women level of participation in SMS in the study area. It was recommended that women should diversify in other sustainable income generating activities in order to enhance their livelihood status. Also, women should source for credit from viable and credible institution to ensure sustainable livelihood.Item Risk assessment and management strategies in Rice production in Niger State, Nigeria(Nigerian Journal of Tropical Agriculture, 23, 2021) Salihu, I.T.; Abdullahi, A.; Jibrin, S.; Hassan, S.; Aliyu, A.; Ibeh, A.M.Rice is an important cereal crop in Nigeria. However, its availability is affected by the risk involved in its production. Hence, farmers use various strategies to mitigate these risks. Therefore, it is on these bases, the study assesses the risks and management strategies in rice production in Niger State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 151 respondents and analyzed using descriptive statistics and multinomial logit regression. The results revealed that, majority (90.7%) of the respondents were males and highly educated (82.1%). The mean age of the respondents was 35years and a mean of 12 years of experience in rice production. The major risk sources that compromise rice production in the study area includes climate variability (WM=4.16), pilfering/theft (WM=3.68) and market failure (WM=3.56). The most effective management strategies adopted by rice farmers to mitigate risks associated with rice production in the study area were diversification into nonfarm business (WM=2.72) which ranked 1st, use of agro-chemicals (WM= 2.38) ranked 2nd while the use of crop rotation technique of farming (WM = 2.30) and cooperative marketing (2.30) ranked 3rd respectively. The multinomial logit regression reveals that age, educational level, farming experience, farmers’ association, goal of farming, household size, farm output, access to extension and number of extension contacts had significant effect on the management strategies adopted by rice farmers in the study area. Thus, it was recommended that the farmers should adopt the modern risk management strategies such as insurance and integrated farming system.Item Influence of improved open pollinated maize variety adoption on livelihood status of farmers in Niger state, Nigeria(Journal of Agripreneurship and Sustainable Development 4(1), 2021) Umar, I.S.; Mohammed, U.; Mohammed, Y.; Abdullahi, A.; Abubakar, U.The study examined influence of improved open pollinated maize variety adoption on the livelihood status of farmers in Niger State, Nigeria. To achieve the objectives of the study, 120 farmers were randomly selected from three (3) Local Government Areas in the State. Validated interview schedule with reliability co-efficient of 0.74 was used for data collection and analyzed using descriptive statistics, livelihood index and multiple regression analysis. Result showed that the mean age and mean farm size of the respondents was 34 years and 1.9 ha, respectively. Finding further indicated that 82.5% of the respondents were full adopters by cultivating improved maize variety in at least 10% of their total farm lands. The result also revealed that educational level, income, incentive and time of awareness positively and significantly influenced adoption of improved maize variety, which highly upshot the livelihood status of the respondents by about 70.0%. The study recommended that incentive such as free seed of improved varieties should be given to farmers for testing by the improved varieties’ promoters during awareness to facilitate adoption. It was also suggested that extension agents should synchronize awareness time with seasons of usage of the improved varieties to speed up the practical application of the improved varieties.Item Factors Affecting the Use of Traditional Medicine Among Farmers in Osun State, Nigeria(International Research Journal of Advanced Education and Sciences, 1(1), 2023) Jibrin, S.; Mohammed, H. U.; Abdullahi, A.; Ahmed, I. I.; Umaru, A.; Jimoh, M.The study accessed the factors affecting the use of traditional medicine among farmers in Osun State Nigeria. To achieve the study objectives, 3-stage sampling technique was used to randomly select 147 respondents for the study. Data were collected using questionnaire, complimented with interview schedules, and analyzed using descriptive statistics and Probit regression model. Based on the findings of the research, it was discovered that farming was a male dominated enterprise (62.6%), with 87.8% of them been married and having a mean age of 34 years. Also, mean household size was 7 with 51.0% of them not having formal education. The result further shows that mean extension visit was 2, while family/friends and radio programmes where the leading sources of information among farmers on traditional medicine to use. The farmers also reported that traditional medicines where more affordable than the orthodox medicine while the most preferred reason for using traditional medicine among farmers, is its effectiveness in treating aliment and lack of time to see physician. More so, farmers prefer traditional medicine because it is sourced from nature which makes it safe for the body while malaria and cough where the leading ailment which farmers in Osun State use traditional medicine to cure. Results from the Probit regression model shows that level of education, relative advantage of traditional medicine, household size, knowledge level on traditional medicine, level of cosmopolitan, perception on traditional medicine and access to extension services where all positively significant at different levels of significance. The study therefore recommends that traditional healers and farmers should undergo training and re-training on the use of traditional medicine on how to better prescribe the necessary dosage per time since they agreed that it is more user friendly and affordable.Item Factors Affecting Intention to Adopt Urban Farming among Households in Niger State, Nigeria(International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews, 5(11), 2024) Jibrin, S.; Abdullahi, A.; Muhammad, H.U.; Shehu, M.; Shuaibu, U.; Yahya, M.GThe aim of this research is to access the factors affecting intention to adopt urban farming among household in zone 2 of Niger state, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 104 farming households as respondents for the study. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean, percentage, frequency distribution and inferential statistics such as ordered logit regression. The result in this research indicates that majority of the respondent are still in their youthful years (30 to 40) and most of them are male. Majority of them have been practicing urban farming for not more than 10years, 80% of them have at least a secondary education. Their major occupation is farming and 74% of the respondents are married. The types of urban farming indicated by the farming households were poultry production (96.2%) and crop production (90.0%) which are also the most adopted urban farming practices in the study area respectively. The result of the ordered logit regression shows that the prob>chi2 is significant at 1% level of probability indicating a relatively good fit for the ordered logit regression model. However, age, level of education, farming experience, cooperative society, credit received, and farm size were the significant factors affecting intention to adopt urban farming practices in the study area. Inadequate land, low access to credit and high cost of medication were the predominant constraints associated with adoption of urban farming practices among the farming households in the study area. The study recommended that government should develop financial products and services tailored to urban farmers, such as microloans or grants. Establish partnerships with financial institutions to provide affordable credit options and financial literacy programs for farmers.Item Effect of Domestic Violence on the Livelihood of Rural Households of Mupun Ethnic Group in Plateau State, Nigeria(International Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 24(2), 2021) Abdullahi, A.; Salihu, I.T.; Jibrin, S.; Pojwan, D.; Hassan, S.; Aliyu, A.This study assessed the effect of domestic violence on the livelihood of rural farming households in Plateau State, Nigeria. Interview schedule complimented with questionnaire were used to obtain information from a total of 124 respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequency distribution, percentages and mean. The results revealed that majority of the farmers were married (69.5%) and educated (96.8%) with a mean age of 39years. The result also shows that farmers suffers from various kinds of violence from their partners ranging from physical (mostly (97.6%) by hitting, kicking, slapping and beating), psychological (mostly (96.8%) by yelling and screaming) and sexual violence (mostly (99.2%) by withholding sex). While the existing social norms, traditions and culture (𝑋̅=4.23), extra marital affairs (𝑋̅ =4.17) and alcoholism (𝑋̅=3.98) were the major causes of domestic violence among rural households. These attributes and traditions had negative effects on farmers’ livelihood in the manner of decline in social interaction with other farmers (𝑋̅=4.56), decrease productivity in labour input (𝑋̅=4.55) and decrease adoption of new technologies (𝑋̅=4.35). However, farmers believed that economic empowerment of women (𝑋̅=4.48), removing norms against gender mainstreaming (𝑋̅=4.45) and avoiding force/arranged marriage (𝑋̅=4.43) and dialogue with kinsmen (𝑋̅=4.42) were perceived as the most effective strategies to curbing domestic violence in the area. Thus, it was recommended that rural famers should be given adequate orientations on marital affairs as well as the health implications of domestic violence on rural economy.Item Assessment of Rural Households’ participation in empowerment programmes of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Niger State, Nigeria(International Journal of Agricultural Economics, Management and Development (IJAEMD), 10(1), 2022) Usman, U. N.; Salihu, I.T.; Abdullahi, A.; Umar, S.NGOs have become tremendously active in a wide range of discipline and other more specialized roles such as poverty alleviation, emergency response, human rights work; hence the need to know rural households’ participation in these programmes. Therefore, this study assessed rural households’ participation on empowerment programmes of nongovernmental organizations in Niger state Nigeria. Data was obtained from randomly selected 112 households using structured questionnaires and analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. The result revealed that majority of the respondents (66.1%) were females, single (63.4%), had no formal education (66.1%) and are mostly farmers (63.4%). to The result on the extent of household participation in empowerment programmes showed that skill acquisitions and vocational training (X ̅=3.85) ranked first while Community sanitation services (X ̅=2.18) ranked the least. Probit regression model was used to analyzed the factors affecting the participation in empowerment programmes of NGOS, the result revealed that marital institution (0.66), formal education (0.71), distance to nearest market (-0.47), household size (-0.20), age (0.44) and complexity of the programme (-0.87) are significant determinants. The constraints of households’ participation in empowerment programmes of NGOs were inaccessibility to the programmes, lack of awareness and language barriers. Thus, it was recommended that Non-Governmental rganizations should broaden their links so as to expose the rural people to a variety of empowerment/ training programmes.Item Comparative assessment of Rural Women poverty status in Suleja and Gurara Local Government Areas of Niger State, Nigeria(Journal of Agriculture and food environment, 9(1), 2022) Muhammad, H. U.; Salihu, I.T.; Abdullahi, A.; Jibrin, S.; Hassan, S.; Aliyu, A.Poverty is pervasive in rural areas of Niger State. Women living in rural households are more vulnerable to poverty than men. Thus, this study seeks to assess rural women farmers’ poverty status in Suleja and Gurara local government areas (LGAs) of Niger state, Nigeria. Interview schedules complimented with a questionnaire were used to obtain information from a total of 142 respondents. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) and Probit regression models. The results revealed that majority of the women were married (70.0%) and (78.5%) at mean ages of 38 and 40 years respectively. The result also showed that 85.7% and 93.7% of the women farmers identified processing of farm produce as their major source of farm income in Suleja and Gurara LGAs respectively. FGT analysis showed that 41% and 24%, of women in Suleja and Gurara LGAs of the State were poor at a Poverty line of ₦19,102.29 and ₦19,931.08 per month, respectively. The Probit regression results revealed that age, marital status, level of education, farming experience, number of extension visits, farm income and access to credit were the major factors influencing poverty among the rural women of Suleja and Gurara LGAs of Niger State. The study concluded that there was a higher level of poverty among the rural women farmers of Gurara compared to Suleja LGA, hence efforts should be made to diversify the livelihood portfolios of rural women in the study areas to enhance sustainability through the various women empowerment programs, extension services and credit facilities.Item Assessment of factors influencing poultry production among rural farmers in Katcha and Lapai Local Government Areas of Niger State, Nigeria(Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology (JAAT) 13(1), 2024) Muhammad, H.U.; Muhammad, Y.; Abdullahi, A.; Jibrin, S.The study assessed factors influencing poultry production among small-scale farmers in Katcha and Lapai Local Government Areas of Niger State. A three-stage sampling procedure was used to select 132 small-scale poultry farmers, to whom structured questionnaires were administered to collect primary data. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency count, percentages, and means), inferential statistics (multiple regressions), and farm budgeting techniques. The socio-economic characteristics of the farmers showed that most (45.5%) were between 30-40 years of age with a mean age of 36 years, 70.1% of the farmers were male, and 57.5% were married. The mean household size was six persons, while the mean farming experience was 5.2 years. Over half (53.0%) of the farmers had primary and secondary school education. The costs and returns evaluation result revealed that the farmers incurred more expenses in purchasing feeds (₦68,616.34). In contrast, returns on poultry production were ₦357,103.54 with a profitability and efficiency ratio of 1.28 and 2.28, respectively, per 100 birds. The multiple regression results revealed that feeds (0.0561), drugs/vaccines (0.0577), credit (0.0520), age (0.0192), education (0.0122), household size (0.0425) and farming experience (0.1617) significantly influence poultry output at 1% and 5% level of probability. Meanwhile, the high cost of feed (ẋ=2.45) and high temperature (ẋ= 2.29) were the most severe constraints faced by the poultry farmers. These findings showed that the poultry farmers were making reasonable returns from poultry farming. The government and other relevant stakeholders should encourage the farmers to adopt climate-smart agricultural practices to mitigate the effects of temperature on poultry birds. Also, extension services should be intensified, for increased poultry production in the study area.