Kwara State University
Olayinka Yusuf
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Department: Agricultural Economics and Extension Services
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| 1 | ROLES OF COOPERATIVE TO REDUCE CONSTRAINTS OF LIVELIHOOD IN RICE FARMING IN NIGER STATE NIGERIA |
This study compared the constraints faced by co-operators and non-cooperators farmers in their rice production activities in Niger state of Nigeria. Three-stage sampling procedure was employed to select 80 cooperators and 80 non co-operators rice farmers. A validated questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. Frequency count, percentage and Chi-Square were statistical tools used for data analysis. Findings showed that the average age of cooperators and non-cooperators farmers were mean=43.4years and 47.2 years respectively. The average crop size cultivated by co-operators was 3.5hectares while non-cooperators cultivated 1.92hectares.Cooperators (100%) and non-cooperators (98.8%) farmers have access to information on rice production from extension agents. The leading challenge faced by cooperators were high cost of inputs like fertilizers (mean=4.56), nonavailability of institutional loan(mean=4.15), and encroachment by grazing cattle (mean=4.12) while noncooperators farmers were mostly constrained by high cost of inputs like fertilizers (mean=4.56), inadequate processing facilities (mean=4.52) and encroachment by grazing cattle (mean=4.48). Results further showed that constraints faced by cooperator and non-cooperators were statistically different (t=8.44; p=0.000) indicating that non-cooperator rice farmers were more constrained (mean=4.02) than their cooperator counterparts (mean=3.45). Chi-square test showed that access to loan and financial support (X2= - 17.640; p=0.000) was found to have inverse associated with constrained faced by co-operators and farm size (X2 =162.468; p=0.001) of non-cooperators has positive association with number of constraints that faced them. The study concluded that constraints faced by cooperators and non-cooperators were statistically different as non-cooperator rice farmers were found to be more constrained t | Olatinwo, L. K., Kwatachi, A. M. and Yusuf, O. J. | Rusan Journal 2019 pg 41-43 | Research article | 2019-10-07 | ||