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Poverty Alleviation On Plantain And Banana Farmers
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NBS (2007) revealed that about 69 million
people were living in poverty in 2004 which represent 54.4% of the
Nigerian population. Sectorial disaggregation show urban poverty rate of
43.1% and rural poverty rate 63.8% in the same year (Adeyonu et al.,
2002). Incidentally, the rural sector is the predominant sector in
Nigeria economy. Evidences abound that among the rural poor people, the
farming households are poor. For instance Federal Office of Statistics
(FOS) (1999), Olaniyan and Bankole (2005) reveals that in 1980, 1985,
1992, 1996 and 2004, the incidence of poverty were 32.1, 43.1, 38.7,
72.3 and 64.4 percent respectively for Nigerian farming households and
16.3, 37.2, 36.0 58.0 and 59.2 percent for their non farming
counterparts respectively. This shows that poor families are more in
farming households than non farming households in Nigeria.
While a
plethora of poverty reduction programmes have been put by various
governments in Nigeria, poverty enabated calling to question the
effectiveness of these efforts (Philip et al., 2009) hence the need to
identify and examine alternative strategies or solutions of these group
out of poverty.
Plantain and banana have been crops of extra ordinary
significance to the rural poor household and the human societies.
Cultivations of both crops is mainly a medium gestation agricultural
investments as against long gestation agricultural investment such as
cash crops and livestock production (Philip et al., 2009). In the
absence of functioning capital, credits coupled with failure of
government to put in place safety nets for the rural poor household, it
is difficult, if not possible for a resource poor farm household to
invest in long gestation farm projects. It is against this background
that plantain and banana production will be focused on as a means of
boosting rural household income. A number of questions then arise:
What
is the socio economic characteristics of plantain and banana farmers in
Ovia South West and Ovia North East Local Government Area
What is the perception of farmers on the profitability of plantain and banana production in the area.
What is the value addition of plantain and banana among respondents
What is the poverty level of plantain and banana farmers in the area.
What is the contribution of plantain and banana farming enterprise to poverty alleviation among the farmers
What are the constraints faced by plantain and banana farmers in the area
1.2OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
examine
the socio economic characteristics of plantain and banana farmers in
Ovia South West and Ovia North East Local Government Area
assess the perception of farmers on the profitability of plantain and banana production in the area.
identify the value addition of plantain and banana among respondents
examine the poverty level of plantain and banana farmers in the area.
assess the contribution of plantain and banana farming enterprise to poverty alleviation among the farmers
identify the constraints faced by plantain and banana farmers in the area
1.3HYPOTHESIS
H1 there is no significant association between the farming type and farmers poverty status
H2 There is no significant difference in income from the different plantain/banana enterprise.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study focused on poverty alleviation among plantain and banana farmers in Ovia South North East Local Government Area of Edo State. It answered the following questions (i) what is the socio-economic characteristics of plantain and banana,(ii) what is the perception of farmers on the profitability of plantain and banana production in their area, (iii) what is the constraint faced by plantain and banana farmers (iv) what is the value addition of plantain and banana among respondentsThe data we ... Continue reading---
