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Item Awareness and participation of farmers in extension activities of agricultural media resources and extension centre in Ogun State(2013-12) Fawole, O. P.; Tijani, S. A.This study assessed the extension activities of Agricultural Media Resources and Extension Centre (AMREC) of University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State. Five villages that were in active collaboration with the centre were targeted. Ten percent (10%) of registered farmers were selected from each village given the sample size of 170 respondents. Data based on respondents awareness and participation in the extension activities of AMREC were collected through structured questionnaire and analysis was done using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed that 69.6% of the respondents were between 31-50years of age, 68.3% were males, 88.8% were married and 62.7% of the respondents have one form of education or the other. Majority (82.6%) were full time farmers with 44.7% cultivating 1-2hectares while 95.0% had technical background before the inception of AMREC in the area. Greater percentage (59.0%) of the respondents had been having contacts with extension agents once in 2 weeks. All the respondents were aware of AMREC research activities but 95% had more awareness on market research. Respondents were aware of extension services of AMREC more than research activities and almost all the respondents were aware of input supply services of AMREC. Meanwhile, participation of respondents in research activities of AMREC was occasional while that of extension and input supply activities was regular. There is significant relationship between gender, marital status, level of education and level of participation in AMREC activities (χ2= 20.31, p<0.05; χ2= 6.92, p<0.05 and χ2= 21.58, p< 0.05). Positive relationship exists between respondents’ awareness of all AMREC activities and participation in the extension activities. It can be concluded that most of the participants in AMREC activities were small scale farmers and their awareness and participation in AMREC extension and input supply activities were more than research activities. More female farmers and farmers with large hectares of land should be involved. Also, AMREC should ensure that their research work is disseminated to all farmers within their coverage areas irrespective of the specific target audience.Item Contribution of shell petroleum development company (SPDC) agricultural extension programme to farmers in Oil producing areas of Delta State, Nigeria(2012-06) Fawole, O. P.; Tijani, S. A.The strained relationship between Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and host communities led SPDC to embark on agricultural extension services programme. Based on this, the study examined the contribution of this programme to farmers in the oil producing areas of Delta State. Simple random sampling technique was used to select four agricultural zones out of eleven zones based on SPDC structure. Proportionate sampling technique was used to select 122 respondents. Data collection was done through interview schedule which were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings show that 53.3% of the respondents were within age range of 45 and 54 years, majority (76.7%) were male, 74.2% were married while 65.0% had one form of education or the other. All the farmers were aware of SPDC agricultural extension programme and 57.5% of the farmers participated in training and dissemination of information. Majority (85.8%) benefited from cassava stems, 85.8% pineapple suckers and 85.0% plantain suckers. Low benefit was recorded on tractor services (15.0%) and fishing net (21.7%). Farmers’ attitude towards SPDC agricultural programme was generally favourable. There is a significant relationship between sex (χ2; 27.928, p≤0.000), education (χ2; 24.150; p≤0.000) and contribution of SPDC agricultural programme. There was also a significant relationship between awareness (r =0.268; p≤0.003), participation (r= 0.252; p≤0.005) and the contribution of SPDC agricultural programme. Extension contact should be increased and farmers should be encouraged to form into groups in order to enhance their access to other inputs such as tractor.Item Impact of world bank funding withdrawal on activities of women in agricultural programme of Oyo State ADP(Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2010-07) Tijani, S. A.; Fawole, O. P.; Adekoya, A. E.The Agricultural Development Project (ADP) has been saddled with agricultural extension services since its inception in Oyo State in 1989. This has been through financial and technical assistance from the World Bank. However, with the withdrawal of funding assistance by the World Bank finally in 1999, the burden of financing agricultural extension services became the responsibility of the state government. This study analyzed the trend of extension activities of the Women-in-agriculture (WIA) programme of the ADP from 1989 to 1999. Areas focused were crop, livestock and fishery production. There was a downward trend of all the activities on crop right from inception of funding (excluding 1991) which was not helped by the funding withdrawal of the World Bank. The picture presented was a gloomy future for WIA in agricultural extension delivery. Also, significant differences existed in the activities (t-value of 2.504 and a p-value of 0.031) between when funding was active (1989-1995) and period of withdrawal and after (1995-2001). The study thus substantiated the importance of funding for agricultural extension activities especially as they are development oriented. It also suggested the need for governments to specifically pay attention to women farmers through intensifying funding for the WIA programmes.Item Coverage and content analysis of biotechnology and genetically modified organisms in four selected Nigerian daily newspapers(2013) Olajide, B. R.; Fawole, O. P.The media, especially the newspapers play a major role as sources of biotechnology information and will be useful avenues for disseminating related information. It is in view of this that this study examined coverage of biotechnology and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Nigerian daily newspapers as an avenue to raise mass awareness especially amongst literate farmers. This study content analysed 63 GMOs and biotechnology items framed in four Nigerian newspapers (the Guardian, Punch, Vanguard and Nigerian Tribune). The time frame was from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2010 being the period that marked the sudden rise in public awareness of biotechnology issues occasioned by coverage of biotechnology related news in Nigerian media. Variables measured include types of news, frequency of news coverage, placement, direction and space allotted to biotechnology news and related stories. Data were analysed using both descriptive (frequencies, percentages) and inferential (ANOVA) statistics at p≤0.05. Results indicate that across the four newspapers, types of biotechnology news reported were mostly food safety news (54.0%) in 2005 (21 items) with highest news items from Tribune (49.0%). Though most news items (87.3%) on GMOs and biotechnology were positively framed, all (100%) news items were not strategically placed as they were in other pages of all the newspapers. Space allocated to biotechnology news was higher in the Punch (469cm2) than Guardian (423 cm2), Tribune (378 cm2) and Vanguard (252 cm2). There were significant difference across the newspapers in direction (F= 1.23, p ≤ 0.05) and space allotted (F = 2.53, p ≤ 0.05) to coverage of biotechnological news. Generally, there is low reportage of biotechnology and GMOs news for the period investigated, across newspapers, in space allotment and strategic locations; it is therefore recommended that more attention and priority should be accorded biotechnology news items in terms of space and strategic placement to enhance public awareness of related information.Item Perceived effectiveness of agricultural information channels (AIC) in marketing of poultry eggs in Ijebu north-east local government area of Ogun state(2014-07) Fawole, O. P.; Badiru, I. O.The productivity of the poultry industry like any other industry is hinged on adequate dissemination of information through appropriate channels. This study assessed the perceived effectiveness of agricultural information channels in marketing of poultry eggs in Ijebu North East local government area of Ogun state. Fifty four randomly selected poultry farmers and an equal number of purposively selected marketers were administered with questionnaires. Data on socioeconomic characteristics, availability and extent of use of AIC as well as perceived effectiveness of the channels were collected and analysed. Results showed that more of the farmers were male (81.7%) compared to the marketers, majority of the respondents had formal education (91.7%) and had over five years of experience in their trades (94.4 and 90.7%). Mobile phone was the most readily available and utilised AIC (97.2% and ẋ = 1.46) while the presence of extension agents was not very pronounced (62.0% and ẋ = 0.73). Inconsistent power supply (ẋ=1.52) was the most limiting constraint to the use of the AIC. There was significant difference in the perceived effectiveness of AIC among poultry farmers and marketers (t=3.833, p≤0.005). Sustained use of preferred channels of information was thus advocated while extension agents were urged to step up their activities.Item Newspapers' readership among college of agriculture students in Oyo State(2014-06) Fawole, O. P.; Badiru, I. O.; Olatunji, B. T.Development practitioners are constantly in search of appropriate media to reach specific target groups in the development process. Newspapers are relatively more suitable for the literates. This study therefore investigated the readership of newspapers among college of agriculture students in Oyo state. A total of 162 respondents were randomly selected and administered with questionnaire on areas such as newspapers reading status, types of newspapers read, frequency of reading of newspapers, preferred newspaper segment, information sourced and constraints to readership of newspapers. Descriptive statistics, chi-square: and PPMC were used to analyse the collected data. Results show that many of the respondents (64.8%) read newspapers with The Punch being most read (39.1%). Many respondents (43.8%) read weekly, while news segment was the most preferred (40 points) by the respondents. Also, educational (120 points) and agricultural information (117 points) topped the list of information sought by the: respondents while cost was the most limiting factor (85.8%) in the readership of newspapers. Respondents sex (X2 = 13.25, p˂ 0.05), sponsorship (X2 =15.58, p˂ 0.05) and level of study (r = -0.22, P ˂0.05) were significantly related to frequency of reading. Information targeted at students will be more likely received if packaged in the news form while access to newspapers could be improved by stocking of college libraries with newspaper copies for free reading.Item Utilization of organic farming practices and materials by small scale farmers in Ogun State Nigeria(2014) Fawole, O. P.In Nigeria several small scale farmers make use of organic materials such as compost and manure to maintain soil organic matter and as sources of nutrients. The advantages of organic farming could include increased productivity and enhanced biodiversity of the farm lands and surrounding environment. This paper examined the utilization of organic of practices and materials, with highlight on farmers' demographics, knowledge of organic farming, attitude and constraint to use of organic practice and materials among small scale farmers' in Nigeria. The population consisted of all crop organic farmers registered with the agricultural departments then random sampling procedure was used to select 141 farmers in the study area. The data collected were analyzed with the aid of descriptive statistical tools while the hypotheses was tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). Findings reveal that about half (50.4%) of the farmers were aged 51-60 years of age. While only (7.1% and 1.4%) were less than 30 years and above 60 years respectively. majority of the farmers were Christian (75%) adults (50.4%), males (86.5%), and married (78%) and own 1-2 acres of farm land (92.2%). The result showed there was high level of use of organic farming practice and materials among small scale farmers in Ogun State, as utilization of organic practice of management of soil fertility, Pest and disease control was high. It can be concluded that knowledge (r= 0.468, p = 0.002) affect the use and practice of organic agriculture leading to favourable attitude which also affected (r = 0.187, P = 0.026) the use of organic farming.Item Expanding access to voluntary HIV counselling and testing in the rural communities of Oyo state, Nigeria;- home based approach for improving uptake(2014-05) Busari, A. O.; Fawole, O. P.This study assess the impact of home based HIV counselling and testing in expanding access to HIV voluntary counselling and testing in rural Nigeria. The participants of the study were 1, 200 drawn from five constituent wards in Saki town in four streets, in 12 households using multistage sampling techniques. The participants aged 15–55 years. The instrument used for data collection was HIV counselling and testing client intake form. The design adopted for this study was pre-post quasi experimental design. Three research questions and two hypotheses guided this study. Data analysis employed was data analysis employed was Descriptive statistics of percentage, and ratio odd for the research questions raised while Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was utilized for the two research hypotheses formulated. The results of the study indicates that Home based approach had a significant impact for improving uptake of HIV counselling and testing in rural Nigeria. Again, there was a significant reduction in multiple partners (especially among those tested) and reduction in casual partners in intervention group compared with control group.Item Awareness and participation of farmers in extension activities of agricultural media resources and extension centre in Ogun state(2013) Fawole, O. P.; Tijani, S. A.This study assessed the extension activities of Agricultural Media Resources and Extension Centre (AMREC) of University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State. Five villages that were in active collaboration with the centre were targeted. Ten percent (10%) of registered farmers were selected from each village given the sample size of 170 respondents. Data based on respondents awareness and participation in the extension activities of AMREC were collected through structured questionnaire and analysis was done using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed that 69.6% of the respondents were between 31-50years of age, 68.3% were males, 88.8% were married and 62.7% of the respondents have one form of education or the other. Majority (82.6%) were full time farmers with 44.7% cultivating 1-2hectares while 95.0% had technical background before the inception of AMREC in the area. Greater percentage (59.0%) of the respondents had been having contacts with extension agents once in 2 weeks. All the respondents were aware of AMREC research activities but 95% had more awareness on market research. Respondents were aware of extension services of AMREC more than research activities and almost all the respondents were aware of input supply services of AMREC. Meanwhile, participation of respondents in research activities of AMREC was occasional while that of extension and input supply activities was regular. There is significant relationship between gender, marital status, level of education and level of participation in AMREC activities (χ2= 20.31, p<0.05; χ2= 6.92, p<0.05 and χ2= 21.58, p< 0.05). Positive relationship exists between respondents’ awareness of all AMREC activities and participation in the extension activities. It can be concluded that most of the participants in AMREC activities were small scale farmers and their awareness and participation in AMREC extension and input supply activities were more than research activities. More female farmers and farmers with large hectares of land should be involved. Also, AMREC should ensure that their research work is disseminated to all farmers within their coverage areas irrespective of the specific target audience.Item Biotechnology knowledge and perceptions issues among students in the faculty of agriculture and forestry, University of Ibadan(2013-06) Fawole, O. P.This study investigated agricultural students' knowledge and perception of biotechnology issues. The study was carried out at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Ibadan. Proportionate sampling method was used to select a sample size of two hundred and sixty four (264) respondents. Variables measured included respondents' demographics, biotechnology information sources, knowledge and perception. The data were analyzed using frequencies, percentages and mean for descriptive analysis while Chi-square analysis, Pearson Product Moment correlation and analysis of variance were used for inferential analysis. Findings reveal that 54.5% of the respondents were female, 56.1% of the respondents had negative perceptions towards biotechnology issues while 82.2% of the respondents had average knowledge level on biotechnology issue. A significant relationship exists between each of respondents, years of formal education, (r = 0.122, P = 0.047), religion, x2= 8.015, p = 0.018) department (x2= 23.498, p = 0.024) and their knowledge of biotechnology. Significant difference exists between the knowledge level of the respondents across the sampled departments (F= 3.446, p=0.003). It was concluded that most of the respondents had unfavorable perception and an average knowledge level on biotechnology issues. The study recommends that learning should not be limited to classroom setting alone. Visits to research institute or private firms who are into research on biotechnology should be arranged for students of faculty of agriculture.