Determinants of Adoption of improved technological packages among underutilised indigenous vegetables farmers in south west Nigeria
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2019
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Obafemi Awolowo University
Abstract
This study characterized the adoption of Improved Technological Packages (ITP) by Underutilized Indigenous Vegetables (UIVs) farmers; determined the factors affecting the adoption of the technological packages; and evaluated the difference in income between adopters and non-adopters of the technologies, with a view to identifying factors that influenced the adoption of the ITPs by UIVs farmers in southwestern Nigeria.
Secondary data obtained from the MICROVEG data bank were employed for this study and a total of 553 respondents were used. Institutional variables such as farm size, membership of Farmer Organisation (FO), contact with extension agents and socioeconomic variables such as age, gender, marital status were extracted and analyzed for this study. Analytical tools such as descriptive statistics was used to characterize the adoption of the ITPs, Poisson regression and Heckman selection models were used to determine the factors affecting the adoption of the technological packages while the Budgetary technique was used to evaluate the difference in income between adopters and non-adopters of the technologies.
The results showed that the women (68.5%) predominated the production of the UIVs with the average age of the farmers being 37.47 (±16.48) years. Most (68.5%) of the farmers were married while 54.9% had family sizes fewer than 5 persons. The farmers were mostly literate with only 11.4% having no type of formal educational training, also, 80.9% of the respondents belonged to one FO or the other. A total of 276 farmers (46%) adopted the Fertilizer Microdosing component of the ITP while 174 farmers (29%) and 150 farmers (25%) adopted the Seed production and Water management practices respectively. Furthermore, only 167 farmers (34.9%) adopted one component out of the 3 technologies introduced to them, 139 (28.86%) adopted 2 while 174 farmers (36.24%) adopted all the three ITPs. The Poisson Regression results showed that income, land, education, membership of Farmer Organisations (FOs), Awareness of Fertilizer Microdosing (AFMD), and Awareness of Water Management Practices (AWMP) influenced the adoption of the ITP introduced to the farmers. In addition, the results obtained from the two-stage Heckman selection model revealed that indigeneity (location) of the farmers and awareness of the ITP did not encourage farmers’ membership of the FOs while gender, marital status and their educational qualifications were factors that encouraged them to be members of the FOs. Further results obtained from the model revealed that land, gender, awareness of innovation and marital status were the determinants of adoption of the ITP by the farmers through the FOs. Also, the result from the gross margin analysis showed that adopters and non-adopters of ITP had an average difference in margin of ₦12,649.58 per season. The average seasonal margin obtained by the adopters was ₦18,013.81 while that of non-adopters was ₦5,364.23 and the difference was statistically significant at 5%.
The study concluded that adequate information, income, FO membership, gender and education were important factors that influence adoption of ITP among UIV farmers
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Underitulised indigenous vegetables, Farmers, South west, Nigeria, MICROVEG
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Orka,A.T.(2019). Determinant of adoption of improved technological packages among underutilised indigenous vegetables farmers in south west Nigeria.Obafemi Awolowo University.