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Effect of workdays lost to presumptive malaria on food crop production in rural south west Nigeria
(2019-09-23) Adekanye J.O.; Adepoju A.O.; Adeoti A. I.
Malaria is a major public health problem in Nigeria, having negative effect on economic livelihood of farming households. Therefore, this study examined the effect of workdays lost to presumptive malaria on food crop production in rural South west Nigeria. A four-stage sampling technique was used to randomly select 395 food crop farming households from Oyo and Osun states based on probability proportionate to size. Structured questionnaire was employed in collecting primary data used in the study. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and ordinary least square regression model at α0.05. Age of households’ head was 56.41±9.34 years. Male respondents were 88.6%, household size was 7±2 persons and 37.0% had no formal education. Only 45.1%, 24.6%, 37.2% and 7.1% had access to extension services, credit facilities, electricity and mosquito nets, respectively. In a year, the average number of presumptive malaria episodes per household was 17.49± 4.28. Workdays lost to malaria was 73.49±23.87, out of which 69.8% and 30.2% was due to sickness and caregiving, respectively. Household size (β=-1.00), hired labour (β=-0.25) and workdays lost to presumptive malaria (β=-0.12) reduced per capita food crop production while farm size (β= 0.42), fertilizer (β=0.43), herbicides used (β=0.15) and planting materials (β=0.11) increased per capita food crop production. Workdays lost to presumptive malaria had negative influence on household food crop production. Therefore, people in the study area should be encouraged to make proper use of malaria preventive measures, such as mosquito nets, so as to reduce frequency of mosquito bites and malaria attacks. Medication that can reduce the days of incapacitation should be intensified and made available to farmers at affordable prices in order to improve the quality of life and productivity of farming households. Also health education should form a core of educational and extension service delivery to the farmers especially in the rural areas where majority are into farming as means of livelihood.
Effect of workdays lost to presumptive malaria on households’ poverty status among food crop farming households in rural South West, Nigeria
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria, 2020) Adekanye, J. O.; Adeoti A. I.; Adepoju, A. O.; Awoyemi, T. T.
This study examined the influence of Workdays Lost to Presumptive Malaria (WLPM) on poverty status of Food Crop Farming Households (FCFHs) in rural South West, Nigeria. The primary data were collected with well-structured questionnaire administered on 395 FCFHs randomly selected using multistage sampling technique. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Foster-Greer-Thorbecke and two stage probit least square regression model at α0.05. The results show that 88.6% of the households were male-headed, age was 56.41 ±9.34 years. Years of schooling and farming experience were 4.80±4.65 and 29.53 ±10.78, respectively. Only 37.2%, 45.1% and 24.6% have access to electricity, extension services and agricultural credit, respectively. The annual farm income was N452,711.70±153,704.70 (equivalent to N37,725.97 per month). In a year, an average of 73.49 workdays (valued at N58,358.5) was lost to presumptive malaria per household. The Mean Per Capita Household Expenditure (MPCHE) per month was N5,605.89, the poverty line (i.e 2/3 of MPCHE) was N3,737.26. FGT model results indicate that poverty incidence, depth and severity were 0.425, 0.031 and 0.004, respectively. The incidence of poverty increased with increased in WLPM. In the 2SPLS analysis, the coefficient of WLPM was positive (β=0.0607) and statistically significant (p-value = 0.049), implies that increase in WLPM increase the probability of households being in poverty. The result of the Wald test of exogeneity suggests that the WLPM is truly endogenous to household poverty status. Therefore, WLPM had an increasing effect on poverty status of the respondents. The study recommended that, poverty interventions should adequately incorporate strategies on malaria prevention and control; and be extended to rural areas as a way of poverty reduction among rural populace. Also, the national health insurance scheme needs to incorporate rural farming households and people in the informal sector to reduce the out-of-pocket spending on malaria treatment as a poverty reduction strategy.