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    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.
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    ASSESSMENT OF FARMERS USAGE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN PAIKORO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA
    (International Journal of Agriculture and Development Studies (IJADS), 2017) Ogaji, A., Oseghale, A. I., Jibrin, S., Ibrahim, F. D., & Yusuf, A. K.
    The study was conducted in Paiko local government area of Niger State, Nigeria, with the objective of assessing farmers’ usage and effectiveness of information and communication technologies and also to determine respondent’s level of use of new information and communication technologies. Data were obtained through the use of questionnaire administered on 60 farmers that were randomly selected and analysed using descriptive statistics, 3- point likert scale and logit regression. The study revealed that an overwhelming majority (81.7%) of the respondent were males with an average age of 43years with formal education. Farm size and number of extension visits were the factors that influenced the use of ICT. While increase in the farm size lead to decrease in the odds of ICT usage, increase in extension visit on the other hand led to increase in the odds of ICT usage. Based on the findings of the study, it is therefore recommended that ICT facilities and training should be channeled more to the large scale farmers since they have a higher likelihood of using them.