Differences in Food Crop Diversification between Male and Female Smallholder Farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria
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2019
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Abstract
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.