The aims of the study were to determine relationship between farmer’s socio-economic variables and profitability in chilli pepper production, and to determine the profitability in chilli pepper producers in Kaduna state, Nigeria. Primary data were collected from chilli pepper pro...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20300
Aims: The aim of the study is twofold; to determine how the resource inputs were efficiently used and describe how socio-economic characteristics of sugarcane farmers affected the efficiency of sugarcane producers in Kaduna state. Study Design: Primary data were collected for thi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/18630
Aims: Aims of the study were to determine how profitable is sugarcane production and its contribution to farm income of farmers in Kaduna state. Study Design: Primary data were collected for this study from sugarcane farmers through the use of well structured questionnaires. Plac...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/18987
The study examined rural households’ fuel consumption pattern in Kwara State, Nigeria. Primary data using a structured questionnaire and interview were administered to select randomly 110 rural farming households. The result revealed a link between forests, agricultural productio...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17360
A study was conducted to determine the food and non- food pattern among rural artisanal fishery households in North Central Nigeria. Data used for this study was collected from a total of three hundred and twenty rural fishery households using a multi-stage random sampling techni...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/17388
Agricultural production activities are gradually becoming important livelihood diversification among urban and peri-urban households whose main occupation is public service. The study focuses on livelihood diversification through agricultural production activities among public se...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2018/v17i230045
The majority of crop pollination services are provided by the honey bee (Apis mellifera) but almost not available in most developing countries including Nigeria. This study was undertaken to assess adoption of Bee Pollination Services (BPS) by arable crop farmers in Kwara State,...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/31305
The study aimed at analyzing the technical efficiency of acha production using structured questionnaire administered to 200 randomly selected acha farmers in Kaduna State. The data were subject to analysis using the stochastic frontier production function and the gross margin ana...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4521