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Item Analysis of Profitability of Cassava Enterprises in Rural Areas of Oyo State(National Congress of Rural Sociological Association of Nigeria, 2020-01) Ayegboyin, J.B.; Yekinni, O.T.; Adeniyi, R.T.Item Benefits derived by rural youths’ involvement in oil palm enterprise in Ido local government area of Oyo State, Nigeria(Nigerian Journal of Rural Extension and Development, 2018-06) Yekinni, O.T.; Adeniyi, R.T.; Osunkunle, G.O.The economic contribution of oil palm among the oil producing crop to the sustainable agricultural productivity in Nigeria is high. This study assessed the benefits derived by rural youths’ involvement in oil palm processing activities in Ido local government of Oyo state. A multistage sampling procedure was employed to select 120 respondents for the study. Data were collected via interview schedule on rural youth’s socio economic characteristics, involvement in oil palm processing activities, support services needed and the benefits derived. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential (Chi-square and PPMC) statistics. Results show that most of the respondents were female (79.2%), married (63.3%) with mean age of 26 .6±5.53years. They had oil palm processing as their primary occupation (87.5%) and used self labour (60.8%) with source funding being through personal savings (83.3%). A mostly identified benefit was the supply of raw materials to industries (215.9), engaging youths to prevent restiveness (214.2) and increased standard of living (209.8). More than half (52.2%) of the respondents had low level of support services. The respondents’ involvement included crushing, digestion, and heating of the fruit (195.9) and separation of endocarp from the kernel (192.4). Significant relationship existed between involvement and sex (p=0.000), marital status (p=0.011), age (p=0.002) as well as benefits derived (p=0.000). The benefits derived by the involved youth could be sustained with improved level of the support services as they are strong enough to keep them in the enterprise.Item Benefits Derived from the Use of Information and Communication Technologies among Rural Farmers in Northeast Nigeria(Journal of Agricultural Extension Vol. 23, No. 3, 2019-07) Yekinni, O.T.; Ladigbolu, T.A.; Adeniyi, R.T.; Adebisi, G.L.The study investigated benefited from the use of ICTs in Northeastern Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 230 respondents. Data for the study were collected using interview schedule and analysed with percentages, mean and weighted score and Chi-square and PPMC at α0.05. Results show that the available ICT tools to the respondents were radio (97.4%), mobile phone (92.6%) and television (88.3%). The most perceived benefits of ICTs were keeping in touch with friends with (158.8) and provision of information on weather, disease outbreak and new agricultural techniques (141.7). However, the majority (54.3%) of the respondents had low level of benefit of ICT use. Constraint encountered using ICTs were high cost of maintenance (126.5), high call tariff (126.4) and language barrier (124.8). Significant relationship existed between respondents’ age (r= - 0.61), sex (χ2=56.50) and benefits derived from the use of ICTs. Respondents’ low level of benefit derived could be due to language barrier, high cost of tariff and maintenance. Developmental practitioners should continue the use of ICTs to propagate information to target audience while high priority should be given to local language when packaging such information.Item CROP FARMERS’ ADAPTATION STRATEGIES TO MITIGATE CONFLICTS WITH NOMADS IN OYO STATE(Nigerian Journal of Rural Sociology Vol. 17, No. 1, 2017) Yekinni, O.T.; Adeniyi, R.T.; Adebisi, S.A.Conflicts on the use of resources are not uncommon in human systems. However, when they degenerate to violence, threatening progress, peace and development of the society; it would be necessary to address the problem. This study focused on adaptation strategies employed by crop farmers to manage conflicts with nomads in Oyo state. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 120 respondents for the study. Data were collected with the use of interview schedule on crop farmers’ socioeconomic characteristics, causes of conflicts, effect of conflicts and coping strategies. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential (Chisquare and PPMC) statistics. Results show that most of the respondents were Yoruba (89.2%), male (86.7%), married (98.3%), had farming (87.5%) as their primary occupation with mean age of 55 years. Mostly identified causes of conflicts were crop damage (weighted mean=194.9), indiscriminate bush burning (188.3) and blockage of water (174.2). Effects of conflicts mostly experienced by farmers were reduction in output and income of farmers (197.4), destruction of crops (193.4), anger/anxiety/emotional exhaustion (180.0). Coping strategies mostly employed were prayer for peace (184.9), early harvesting (181.6) and appease of other party (166.6). More than half (55.8%) of the respondents used low level of coping strategies. Significant relationship existed between coping strategies employed and ethnicity (χ2=11.609), other forms of education (χ2=19.164; p=0.001) as well as effect of conflicts (r=0.400). Adaptation strategies employed by the respondents should be investigated, validated and adopted by appropriate authorities in order to mitigate the regular conflicts among farmers and nomads in Nigeria.Item DETERMINANTS OF YOUTHS’ INVOLVEMENT IN AGRICULTURAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA(Nigerian Journal of Rural Sociology Vol. 19, No. 1,, 2019) Yekinni, O.T.; Ladigbolu, T.A.; Adeniyi, R.T.; Bashiru, O.M.Development of youth through active participation in agricultural vocational training may bring about proliferation of agricultural enterprises for sustainability of agricultural sector. This study focused on the determinants of youths’ involvement in vocational training in Oyo State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was employed to select 120 respondents. Data were collected via structured questionnaire on respondents’ socioeconomic characteristics, reasons for the choice of specific agricultural enterprise training, attitudes towards the trainings, involvement and constraints to the vocational training. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential (Chi-square, PPMC, and linear regression) statistics. Results show that most of the respondents were male (74.2%), married (70.0%) and entrepreneur (64.2%) with mean age and monthly income of 22years and ₦27,665 respectively. Respondents were mostly involved poultry (120.8) enterprise and personal interest (55.8%) was the main reason for their choice of the enterprise. They had unfavorable attitude (53.3%) and lack of fund (weighted mean=165.9) constrained their involvement. Significant relationship existed between respondents’ age (r=-0.31, p=0.00), institutions attended ((χ2=91.90, p=0.000), monthly income (r=-0.22, p=0.02) and involvement in the enterprise. Major determinants of their involvement in the enterprise were age (β=-0.30; p=0.01) and constraints faced (β=0.20; p=0.03). Since they identified fund-related constraints, subsequent agricultural vocational training programmes should be packaged with credit facilities (with little or no interest rate) to be disbursed immediately after the training programme.Item Information and Communication Technologies Usage among Agricultural Students of Tertiary Institutions in Southwest of Nigeria(Journal of Agricultural Extension Vol. 25, No. 1, 2021-01) Yekinni, O.T.; Ladigbolu, T.A.; Adeniyi, R.T.; Oluwasusi, S.J.The study examined information and communication technologies usage among agricultural students of tertiary institution in Southwest of Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 300 agricultural students from tertiary institutions. Structured questionnaire was employed to elicit information on students’ socioeconomic characteristics, availability of ICTs, accessibility and purposes of ICTs usage. Data were subjected to percentage, chi-square, the Pearson Product Moment Correlation and the Analysis of variance at p=0.05. Findings revealed that the most available ICTs among students were internet and mobile phone (95.0%) respectively while they had access to mobile phone (Weighted Mean (WM)=0.58) and radio (WM=0.51), they used ICTs for information (WM=0.77), academics (WM=0.70) and entertainment (WM=0.70) purposes; with high level of availability (71.0%), access (56.7%) and ICTs usage purpose (51.3%) respectively. There were significant relationships between respondents’ monthly stipend (r=0.200), state of institution (χ2=8.000), religion (χ2=222.660), marital status (χ2=211.680), category of students’ programme (χ2= 320.4608), type of institution (χ2=56.000) and their purposes for using ICTs but with a significant difference across the states (F=23.821; p=0.00). Students used ICTs for information, academic and entertainment purposes based on their age and type of their institutions. Since ICTs are used for beneficial purposes, it is recommended that ICTs should be adapted, applied and incorporated into tertiary institutions’ curricula across the nation.Item Poultry Farmers Adaptation Strategies to Consequences of COVID-19 Pandemic in Oyo State, Nigeria(Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria, 2021-04) Adeniyi, R.T.; Adetunji, T.A.; Olumoyegun, B.A.; Fanifosi, G.E.; Odozi, J.C.This study examined the adaptation strategies to the consequence of COVID-19 pandemic on Poultry Farmers in Oyo State. Multistage sampling procedure was employed to select five Key Informants and five Focus Group Discussion from the respondents respectively. Data on effects of lockdown, coping strategies and role of PAN were collected and analysed using constant comparison analysis.The effects of pandemic in severity order include, poor marketing due to collapse of the standard delivery system (85%); glut of the poultry products (80%), laying stock reduction (25%) and folding up of the enterprise (15%) burying of unsold bad eggs (5%).Coping strategies employed were sourcing financial support from cooperative societies (85%), sold produce on credit (75%) and sourcing ICT-based marketing information (70%). The role played by PAN include taking exemption letter from police (Police wireless message) to move poultry products for sale; mediating unfavourable government taxation and relevant information dissemination via WhatsApp group platform. There is the need to develop an emergency’s-smart resilience programme for the poultry industry. Measures adopted to manage emergencies such as COVID-19 should not impede the flow of agricultural products and inputs from the onset.Item Use of Information and Communication Technology for Agricultural Marketing Information by farmers in Oyo state, Nigeria(International Journal of Agriculture and Development Studies (IJADS) Vol.3 No 2, 2018) Adeniyi, R.T.; Yekinni, O.T.Marketing information is important to agricultural enterprises. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools have been used to provide information to various stakeholders in agro-allied activities. This study focused on how farmers used the ICT tools to obtain Agricultural Marketing Information (AMI) for their enterprises. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 143 respondents for the study. Data was collected using interview schedule and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics such as PPMC. Results showed that majority of the farmers were mostly male (83.2%), married (92.2%), with a mean age of 45.7 years, a mean year of formal education of 9.5 years and a mean household size of 7.4 persons. The mostly used ICT tools for the AMI by the respondents were radio (weighted score=274.1), mobile phone (232.8) and television (140); the use of ICT tools was relatively low (55.2%). The benefits that accrued to the respondents included easy access to market information (176.2), quick sales of produce (175.5) and improved farmers’ income (173.4). A good proportion (51.7%) of the respondents derived low benefits from the use of ICT-facilitated AMI. There was a significant relationship between benefits derived and use of ICT tools for AMI (r=0.520, p=0.000). Farmers’ educational status enhanced their use of ICTs for more benefits that is inherent in ICT-based AMI. Hence, relevant policies and strategies should be put in place to promote the use of ICT-facilitated information.