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    Impact of policy changes on technical efficiency on farmaers: empirical evidence from Nigerian small scale food crop farmers
    (Journal of rural economics and development, 2008) Ajibefun, A.I.; Adenegan, K.O.
    The study quantitatively determine the impact of policy changes on technical efficiency of small scale food crop farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria, using the stochastic frontier methodology. Given the specifications of the Cobb-Douglas stochastic models, the result shows that the elasticity of mean value of farm output is an increasing function of land, labour and implementation. The mean value of output is also estimated to be an increasing function of agrochemicals and seeds. The results indicated that an increasing returns-to scale exists among the farmers. The analysis shows a wide variation in the estimated technical efficiencies ranging between 0.22 and 0.89. The result of stimulation on policy variation shows thatthe level of technical efficiency would significantly increase with rising level of education, farming experience and amount of credit used and decline with the age of the farmers.
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    Report of sensitisation of marginalised and vulnerable groups under the national fadama development project-II in Ogun State
    (Ogun State Fadma Development Office(OG5FDO)., 2005) Yusuf, S.A.; Adeoti, A. Y. A.; Adenegan, K.O.
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    Food security among cocoa farming households of Ondo State, Nigeria
    (APRN Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science, 2009) Oluyole, K. A.; Oni, O. A.; Omonona, B. T.; Adenegan, K. O.
    "In Nigeria, it has been documented that cocoa farmers devote most of their resources toward cocoa production at the detriment of food crop production because they derive more income from cocoa. There is, however, a dearth of information about the consequence of this practice on the food security status of cocoa farming households. In this study, the food security status of cocoa farming households of Ondo State, Nigeria was examined. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 200 respondent households from the study area in 2007. Information was collected from the respondents with the aid of structured questionnaire and the data obtained from the information were analyzed using Descriptive statistics, Food Security Index, Surplus/Shortfall Index and Probit model. The food security line was N2500.50 per month per adult equivalent. Based on this, 43% of the total sampled households were food secure while 57% were food insecure. Food secure households exceeded the calorie requirements by 12% while food insecure households fell short of calorie requirements by 9%. A unit increase in farming experience of household head (p<0.05), output of roots and tubers (p<0.05), output of cereals (p<0.05) and output of cocoa (p<0.01) increases the probability of household to be food secure by 0.0088, 0.00021, 0.000087 and 0.00049, respectively while a unit increase in household size (p<0.01) and age square of household head (p<0.1) decreases the probability of household to be food secure by 0.23 and 0.000074, respectively. A high percentage of households was food insecure, hence, cocoa farming households in the study area could be said to be food insecure "
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    Elasticities of resource- use in fish production: A case study of Oyo agricultural zone, Oyo State
    (African journal of livestock extension, 2009) Oguntolu, O. Z.; Adenegan, K.O.
    This paper examined the elasticities of resource use in fish production in Oyo agricultural zone, Oyo state. The data used is from a primary source. The instruments of data collection were structured questionnaire and in-depth interview. Multi-stage sampling technique was employed to sample 120 fish farmers. However, only 100 respondents were valid and used in the final stage of this work. Descriptive, Gross Margin Analysis (GM) and inferential statistics (production function) were employed in the analysis of the data. The results of the analysis shows that labour, number of fingerlings, feed, fertilizer and years of experience contribute to increase in fish output, while age of the pond, area of the pond, lime and production period decrease the fish output in the study area. However, the total sum of elasticities of production of the variables was greater than unity that is 1.97
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    Food security among cocoa farming households of Ondo State, Nigeria
    (ARPN Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science, 2009) Oluyole, K. A.; Oni, O. A.; Omonona, B. T.; Adenegan, K. O.
    "In Nigeria, it has been documented that cocoa farmers devote most of their resources toward cocoa production at the detriment of food crop production because they derive more income from cocoa. There is, however, a dearth of information about the consequence of this practice on the food security status of cocoa farming households. In this study, the food security status of cocoa farming households of Ondo State, Nigeria was examined. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 200 respondent households from the study area in 2007. Information was collected from the respondents with the aid of structured questionnaire and the data obtained from the information were analyzed using Descriptive statistics, Food Security Index, Surplus/Shortfall Index and Probit model. The food security line was N2500.50 per month per adult equivalent. Based on this, 43% of the total sampled households were food secure while 57% were food insecure. Food secure households exceeded the calorie requirements by 12% while food insecure households fell short of calorie requirements by 9%. A unit increase in farming experience of household head (p<0.05), output of roots and tubers (p<0.05), output of cereals (p<0.05) and output of cocoa (p<0.01) increases the probability of household to be food secure by 0.0088, 0.00021, 0.000087 and 0.00049, respectively while a unit increase in household size (p<0.01) and age square of household head (p<0.1) decreases the probability of household to be food secure by 0.23 and 0.000074, respectively. A high percentage of households was food insecure, hence, cocoa farming households in the study area could be said to be food insecure. "
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    Impact of policy changes on technical efficiency on farmaers: empirical evidence from Nigerian small scale food crop farmers
    (Journal of rural economics and development, 2008) Ajibefun, A.I.; Adenegan, K.O.
    The study quantitatively determine the impact of policy changes on technical efficiency of small scale food crop farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria, using the stochastic frontier methodology. Given the specifications of the Cobb-Douglas stochastic models, the result shows that the elasticity of mean value of farm output is an increasing function of land, labour and implementation. The mean value of output is also estimated to be an increasing function of agrochemicals and seeds. The results indicated that an increasing returns-to scale exists among the farmers. The analysis shows a wide variation in the estimated technical efficiencies ranging between 0.22 and 0.89. The result of stimulation on policy variation shows thatthe level of technical efficiency would significantly increase with rising level of education, farming experience and amount of credit used and decline with the age of the farmers.
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    Seasonality in cowpea prices: effect of technology in Ekiti State, Nigeria
    (Journal of researches in agricultural sciences, 2007) Adenegan, K.O.; |Awoyemi, T.T.; Edom, C.O.
    The study, Seasonality in Cowpea Prices: Effect of Technology in Ekiti State, was done to actually know the impact of technology in stabilizing the prices of cowpea in off- season and on-season from the first quarter of 1992 to the fourth quarter of 2002. It was found out that the people of Ekiti State consumed or demanded for higher quantities of cowpea during the second and fourth quarters of each year examined for the study. These two quarters were seen to be the harvesting and sales periods of the red or brown beans, and this also coincided with quarters of lower prices of the cowpea. The vector error correction result showed that among all the variables used, only the cost of applying' technology (i.e. cost of the use of fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, storage devices and transportation) was significant, and should have impacted a great influence in stabilizing the seasonal prices of cowpea but this was not the case as rightly shown by coefficient of the error correction, 0.3 85456, which is positive (wrongly signed) and fairly low. It follows that from the findings that only a few farmers and wholesalers of cowpea applied technologies to improve the shelf lives of their products, and therefore cannot influence the market price of cowpea. The state and local Governments of Ekiti State should put in place policies and structures like good road networks within the state, affordability and availability of agricultural pesticides and herbicides, improvement on the available agricultural storage facilities, building of more modern storage facilities, and buying of excess agricultural produces in the on-season to release them in the open market during the off-season in other to stabilize prices at all seasons, as well as, to reduce the loses to the farmers and marketers.
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    Determinants of food security status of rural households living with HIV/AIDS in Southwestern Nigeria
    (African Journal of Biomedical Research, 2007) Adenegan, K.O.; Adewusi, O.A.
    The study assessed the determinants of food security status of households living with HIV /AIDS in Southwestern Nigeria. Eighty-five people living with HIV/AIDS were interviewed for the study, Descriptive statistics, cost of calorie measure and the Logit model were used in analyzing the data collected. The result shows that there is high prevalence of food insecurity among the households living with HIV /AIDS. The result of the Logit model also shows that gender, education, monthly food intake (Kcal), total monthly income, drug share and food share significantly influence the food security status of the households living with HIV/AIDS. To improve the food security status of households living with HIV/AIDS, it is recommended that economic policy should be directed towards the reduction of the food prices, thus reducing the food share of the household monthly expenditure
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    "Determinants of child labour Participation among cassava processing Households in Ogun state, nigeria "
    (Journal of Economics and Rural Development, 2006) Adenegan, K.O.; Adewusi, O.A
    The study examined the determinants of child labour participation among cassava processing rural households in Ogun state, Nigeria. Data were obtained using a three-state sampling procedure. The study used Logit model to analyse determinants of child labour among cassava processing households. The variables age of household head, household size, gross income from cassava processing, primary occupation of household head and poverty status of the household were found to significantly explain child labour participation among the cassava processing households. It is recommended that a policy designed to ameliorate the poverty of these rural poor must among other things recognize provision of sound education at affordable fees, encourage birth control measures would check child labour participation among cassava processing households in the study area.
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    Government expenditure on Nigerian primary school education: benefit incidence approach
    (African Joumal of Educational Planning and Policy Studies, 2002) Adenegan, K.O.; Yusuf, S.A.; Sodipo, M.A.
    Human resources development is a key factor in economic development. Primary education represents the springboard for human resource development. Given the avoided pledge of government on public primary education, this study examined the benefit incidence of government expenditure on primary school education in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria. Data were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire administered on one hundred using systematic random sampling procedure. These data were analyzed using headcount (poverty) index and benefit incidence analysis. The result, of the study showed that on the basis of two-thirds of the mean per capita household expenditure ofN3307.00, about 24 percent of the respondents were core poor, 23 percent were moderately poor while the remaining 43 percent were non-poor. The enrolment share in public schools of these poverty groups was 26.9 percent for core poor, 32.9 percent for moderately poor and 40.2 percent for non-poor. Further, the results showed that average household spending on each child (N3, 428) was more than government unit subsidy at N1632. 78. The costs incurred by households were on transportation, feeding, purchase of books and stationeries, uniforms as well as non-tuition fees. It was revealed that households within the study area utilised public schools (94.0 percent) than private schools (6.0 percent). In conclusion, "on-poor households benefited more (40 percent) from government subsidy than the core poor households (27 percent).