Browsing by Author "Felix Olayinka Oladipo"

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    Differences in Entrepreneurial Diversification among Male and Female Rural Farming Household in Kwara State, Nigeria
    (2019) Abdulrazaq Kamal Daudu; Felix Olayinka Oladipo; Latifat Kehinde Olatinwo; Oyedola Waheed Kareem; Tawakalitu Abiola Dolapo; Rilan Abayomi Isiaka
    The study examined differences in entrepreneurial diversification among male and female rural farming household in Kwara State, Nigeria. A two-stage sampling procedure was used to select a total sample size of 320 respondents. Percentages, mean and regression were used for data analysis. Findings revealed that male and female farmers engaged in several entrepreneurial activities but men (0.51) were more diversified than female (0.47). Level of education, household size and access to credit were the major determinants of the entrepreneurial creativity of the respondents varying degree of significance. Both men and women were differentiated along entrepreneurial activities in search of daily need but men were more creative compared to their women counterparts. Education of male and female entrepreneurs should be encouraged and access to resources among rural farming households to stem up their creative thinking.
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    Differences in Food Crop Diversification between Male and Female Smallholder Farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria
    (2019) Abdulrazaq Kamal Daudu; Felix Olayinka Oladipo; Latifat Kehinde Olatinwo; Oyedola Waheed Kareem; Tawakalitu Abiola Dolapo
    The study assessed food crop diversification among smallholder male and female farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria. A two-stage sampling technique was used to select 384 respondents disaggregated into 197 males and 187 females. Percentages, mean and standard deviation and chart were used for data analysis. Findings showed that the mean number of food crop grown by male farmers was 4.8 while that of female was 3.3 and most (51.4% and 49.3%) of male and female farmers growing 3 and 5 crops at a time respectively. Findings from crop diversification index showed that most of male farmers fall into high diversification group (0.60-0.70) while most female farmers were moderately (0.50-0.60) diversified. It further shows that education, farm size and access to farm machineries and credit positively and significantly influence the extent of crop diversification among male and female smallholder farmers (P≥0.05). Male farmers were found to be highly diversified compared to female farmers. Extension education toward bridging.