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Item Seafood processing activities among women in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria(2013) Tijani, S. A.; Oyewole, M. F.; Uranta, M. E.The importance of seafood can never be over-emphasised because of its contributions to the various aspects of human life. However, the handling and processing of seafood are essential complimentary functions of all production system. This study was conducted to determine the seafood processing activities in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was employed to select 101 women seafood processors while data collection was done using structured questionnaire and interview schedule. The data was analysed using only descriptive statistics. The results showed that most (34.7%) of the women processors were between ages 31 and 40 years, married (60.4), attained secondary level of education (64.4), practised Christianity (45.5) and Islam (44.6). Shrimps (45.0%), prawn and crabs were the type of seafood mostly processed by the respondents while smoking (31.4%) processing was the predominant processing method being used. The respondents acquired information on seafood processing through seafood processors association (91.1%). The major constraint facing respondents were health hazards (97%) and lack of capital (74.3%). Thus, women are actively involved in seafood processing in the study area and provision of basic infrastructure such as health care services would encourage the processors to increase their scale of operation.Item Constraints to production, processing and marketing of sweet-potato in selected communities in Offa Local Government Area, Kwara State Nigeria(Kalma-Raj, 2007) Fawole, O. P.Offa Local Government Area is one of the major sweet-potato growing areas of Nigeria. Sweet potato is grown mainly on smallholder farms and concentrated particularly in communities in Offa Local Government Area. This study randomly selected 90 small scale farmers purposively from 9 communities to investigate constraints to production, processing and marketing of sweet-potato. Data were collected using an interview schedule. Results indicated that yields of 4-7 tonnes per hectare obtained by smallholder farmers are about 20-35 percent of the crop's potential yield. Reasons for this low output are limited cultivated land, lack of improved practices, poor storage facilities, lack of credit facilities, lack of extension training, poor transportation and high cost of input. Also, marketing of the crop is dominated by middlemen, to whom most of the profit accrue, thereby serving as a disincentive to the smallholder farmers. There is, therefore, a need for adoption of improved production techniques, development of appropriate and affordable storage and processing technologies, more efficient distribution and marketing systems and an effective extension service to improve current sweet-potato production in Nigeria.