DETERMINANTS OF YOUTHS’ INVOLVEMENT IN AGRICULTURAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA
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Date
2019
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Nigerian Journal of Rural Sociology Vol. 19, No. 1,
Abstract
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.
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Youths’ involvement, poultry enterprise, vocational training, attitudes, personal interest, Agricultural Vocational Training Programme (AVTP)