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    "VEGETABLE MARKETING: A STRATEGY FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION AMONG URBAN WOMEN "
    (Conference of the agricultural extension society of Nigeria, 2000) Adeoti, A.I.; Adenegan, K.O.
    "The issue of poverty in urban and rural settings in Nigeria is of great concern to development planners. Of greater concern to the researchers, development agencies are the various methods by which poverty can be alleviated among its various victims. This is due to the fact that the alleviation methods could serve as clues to the elimination of poverty. This paper examines vegetable marketing as a strategy for poverty alleviation among urban women in Ibadan. The results show that women are more into vegetable retail markets while men engage in wholesale markets. The gross margin per unit of the vegetable types, are higher in retail markets than in wholesale markets. With the continuous demand for vegetable due to its high perishability. The marketing of vegetable provides a continuous source of income for the women involved in retail marketing. This will help in alleviating their poverty and improving the standard of living. "
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    Women in agriculture and poverty reduction
    (Elshaddai, 2002) Ajani, O.I.Y.; Adeoti, A.I.; Adenegan, K.O.
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    Women Wage Earning and Education in Rural Nigeria
    (journal of women rural observation, 2014) Olowa, O.A.; Adeoti, A.I.; Adenegan, K.O.; Oni, O.I.
    Determining how women's education affects their wage earnings is remarkably important in today's society where women are increasingly entering the labor market. Human Capital Theory suggests that women who acquire more education earn more than women who have less education. Using a sample of 48067 women from Harmonised National Living Standard Survey 2010 data collected by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics in 2009/2010, an Heckman model was used to examine the effect of education on women wage earning. It was revealed that the higher the level of education, the higher the wage accruing to individual women in rural Nigeria. The study suggested that women should Le encouraged to attend school and when it is necessary try to convince them to obtain higher degree of education