AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
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Item Does credit constraint in agriculture influence choice of nonfarm activities? evidence from rural Nigeria((International Society for Development and Sustainability) ISDS, 2019) Adepoju, A. O.; Omolade, O. K.; Obayelu, O. A.Agriculture is less becoming the main source of livelihood in rural Nigeria owing to high climatic risks, poor returns to investment and lack of modern tools. Thus, rural households are beginning to diversify their livelihoods from farming into non-farm activities, as alternative income sources. However, investment in non-farm income generating activities that yield higher returns require in most cases credit availability and accessibility. A household’s participation in and choice of nonfarm activities is thus expected to vary significantly between those who have access to credit and those who do not. However, recognition of the widespread nature and possibly far-reaching impacts of credit on non-farm income activities is scarce. This study examines the link between credit constraint status of rural households and their choice of nonfarm activities. Descriptive statistics, Probit and Multinomial Logit Regression models were employed for analysis. Results revealed that trading, artisanship and commercial transportation activities were the major non-farm activities engaged in by the households. A household credit constrained status also significantly influenced the choice of non-farm activities. Credit constrained households were more likely to participate in commercial transportation activities relative to other non-farm activities owing to its less capital-intensive nature. Promoting access to credit is thus pertinent and should be of utmost priority in the design of any programme for rural households in Nigeria.Item Small scale poultry farmers’ choice of adaption strategies to climate change in Ogun State, Nigeria(Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, 2018) Adepoju, A. O.; Osunbor, P. P.Climate risks constitute an enormous challenge to poultry production and have affected the livelihoods of the people who depend on them. Thus, farmers have adopted various strategies that can help them cope with the adverse effects of climate change. The aim of this study is to examine the factors influencing small scale poultry farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies to climate change. Data used for this study were obtained from 121 representative farmers selected through a two-stage random sampling procedure. Descriptive Statistics, Likert Scale and the Multinomial Logit Model were the tools used for analysis. Results showed that the mean age and household size of the respondents were 45 years and 5 persons respectively, while the average number of birds per farmer stood at 583 birds. Majority of the respondents had a moderate perception of the impacts of climate change on poultry farming and chose management adaptation strategies in their fight against climate change. Econometric analysis showed that the age, gender and educational status of farmers, number of birds, household size, poultry experience, access to cooperative societies, poultry housing system, access to credit, access to extension services and farm size were the factors influencing farmers’ choice of climate change adaptation strategies in the study area. Therefore, policy should focus on awareness creation on management adaptation strategies through enhancing education and extension services as well as access of poultry farmers to credit facilities to indirectly insure farmers against climate change impacts.Item Welfare implications of domestic land grabs among rural households in Delta State, Nigeria(Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies,, 2018) Adepoju, A. O.; Ewolor, S.; Obayelu, O. A.Rural households are displaced from their lands without any plan in place to resettle or compensate them, for a promise of improvement in their living standards. This has not only resulted in a decline in the living standard of the rural populace, in terms of loss of land and livelihoods, the poor are also further marginalized and impoverished. This study examines the welfare implication of domestic land grabs among rural households in Delta State, Nigeria, employing primary data obtained from one hundred and seventy-three representative farming households. Descriptive analysis revealed that majority were low-income earners and engaged in farming as their major occupation. Econometric analysis revealed land size, secondary education, community leaders’ influence, compensation and the use to which the grabbed land was put into as some of the significant factors influencing domestic land grabs in the study area. Further, the size of land grabbed, no compensation for the use of land and low farm output were found to have negative effects on the welfare of the farmers. Thus, the need to intensify efforts to ensure that the rural populace is not being unreasonably dispossessed of its lands, becomes imperative. The need for commensurate compensation of rural households whose lands were grabbed and periodical checks on community leaders who positively influence domestic land acquisitions arbitrarily also becomes pertinent for improvement in the welfare of the farmers. This is especially so, if these small-scale farmers are to be significant drivers of global food security.Item Determinants of market participation among pineapple farmers in Aiyedaade Local Government Area, Osun State, Nigeria(Taylor & Francis, 2015) Adepoju, A. O.; Owoeye, I T.; Adeoye, I. B.This study examined the determinants of market participation among pineapple farmers in Aiyedaade Local overnment Area of Osun State, Nigeria. Interestingly, in spite of major constraints, such as bad roads, inadequate storage facilities, and low level of government support, almost all of the farmers participated in the market. This could be sustained if market centers are established at strategic locations not too far from farms and if loans are made accessible to the farmers with low interest rates requiring simplified procedures for processing. Intervention strategies for improvement of pineapple farmers’ market participation should also be guided by farmers age, farming experience, and marital status.Item Differential pattern in Child mortality rate in rural Nigeria(SCIENCEDOMAIN international, 2015) Adepoju, A. O.This study examined the determinants of market participation among pineapple farmers in Aiyedaade Local overnment Area of Osun State, Nigeria. Interestingly, in spite of major constraints, such as bad roads, inadequate storage facilities, and low level of government support, almost all of the farmers participated in the market. This could be sustained if market centers are established at strategic locations not too far from farms and if loans are made accessible to the farmers with low interest rates requiring simplified procedures for processing. Intervention strategies for improvement of pineapple farmers’ market participation should also be guided by farmers age, farming experience, and marital status.Item Risk coping behaviour of small scale poultry farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria(Academic Journals Inc., 2013) Adepoju, A. O.; Timothy, O. A.; Oyekale, A. S.Poultry farmers in Nigeria are faced with diverse forms of risks. In the absence of any form of insurance and the almost inexistent credit markets, households have devised strategies to at least mitigate the effect of these risks on their livelihoods. This study analyzed the risk-coping strategies and potential of 116 small scale poultry farmers in Ogun State. The analytical techniques used included descriptive statistics, Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) and the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression model. Results revealed that the major idiosyncratic risks faced by the farmers were death of birds, high costs of inputs and low poultry production. On the other hand, the major types of covariate risks faced by the poultry farmers include outbreak of diseases, rainfall shocks and hard economic times. Coping methods that were mostly used included drawing from personal savings, rearing of resistant breeds and restocking of birds. Econometric analysis revealed that factors such as number of years of formal education of the household head, initial capital outlay and proportion of non-farm to the total monthly income had positive impacts on the risk-coping potentials of the poultry farmers. The negative impacts of factors such as household size on the potential of the poultry farmers to cope with risks were also noted. Thus, the risk behavior of farmers and the factors influencing such behavior should be considered in the design and development of effective programs for the farmers.Item Food insecurity status of rural households during the post-planting season in Nigeria(Academic Journals Inc., 2013) Adepoju, A. O.; Adejare, K. A.About two-thirds of rural households in Nigeria are engaged in crop and livestock production as their main source of livelihood. These households are especially vulnerable to chronic food shortages owing to adverse weather and the unavailability of enough food from home production, especially during the post-planting season. This study attempts a proper empirical identification of the food insecure and the reasons for their insecurity, through a profile of food insecurity indices and an investigation of the factors influencing their status during the post-planting season in rural Nigeria. We construct food insecurity indices and specify a probabilistic model, employing the post-planting visit data of the first wave of the General Household Survey-Panel (2010). Results showed that almost half (49.4 percent) of rural households in the country were food insecure during the post-planting period. Identified key rural food insecurity determinants include: gender of household head, tertiary education of household head, access to both formal and informal credit and remittances, household size, dependency ratio and living in the North-Central, North-East, South-East and South-West Geopolitical zones of the country. Since food availability remained below the required levels for large parts of the rural populace during this season, identified food insecure households should be targeted for safety nets.Item Determinants of poverty among riverine rural households in Ogun State, Nigeria(Kamla-Raj, 2012) Oyekale, A. S.; Adepoju, A.O.; Balogun, A.M.This paper analyzed the poverty status of rural households in Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State. Data were collected from 125 households using multistage sampling procedure. Descriptive and Probit regression analytical approaches were used for data analysis. Results show that 28.8 percent of the households were poor. Poverty was perceived to be driven by unemployment, low-investment and neglect by government. Probit results revealed that having farming as primary occupation and household size significantly increased poverty (p<0.10), while amount of credit/loan obtained, educational attainments and monthly expenditure of household significantly reduced it (p<0.10). To alleviate rural poverty, the study concluded that households should have adequate access to affordable and easily accessible credit facilities, among others.Item Household’s willingness to pay for malaria medical treatment in Ibarapa East local government area of Oyo State, Nigeria(Rushing Water Publishers Ltd., 2012-12) Adepoju, A. O.; Ogunmodede, A. S.; Oyekale, A. S.Malaria is a disease that has negatively affected livelihood of many households in Nigeria. This study analyzed the factors influencing households’ willingness to pay for medical treatment of malaria by selected rural households in Oyo state. The data were collected with structured questionnaires that were administered to households using multi-stage sampling method. Data analysis was done with descriptive statistics and Logit regression. Results show that 16.9% of the respondents are willing to pay below or exactly W500 for malaria treatment using insecticides, 18.1% of the respondents are willing to pay between N-1000Item Households’ vulnerability to poverty in Ibadan metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria(Rural Economics and Development, 2011) Adepoju, A. O.; Okunmadewa, F.Y.This paper empirically assessed vulnerability to poverty at the household level using a two-period panel data set obtained from 150 households sampled from two local government areas within Ibadan Metropolis. Data were nalysed using descriptive statistics, poverty indices and probit regression analysis. Analysis of the socio-economic haracteristics and their relationship with vulnerability to poverty revealed that large-sized households headed by men who were old, widowed, self-employed, uneducated or who had only primary school education and no access to any form of credit, were more vulnerable than other households. The estimated probit regression model showed that marital status and tertiary education status of respondents reduced vulnerability to poverty while primary education status and household size enhanced households vulnerability to poverty,