Authors:
OLAPADE-OGUNWOLE, Folayimi*, TAIWO, John Olayinka and OJEDOKUN, Idris Kayode ,Nigeria |
Abstract:
Palm oil is the main edible vegetable oil produced and consumed in Nigeria and is an important
ingredient in most Nigerian households, important for nutritional and medicinal purposes. The
work studied the factors affecting adoption of improved oil palm production technologies by
women in Ife-South local government area of Osun state, specifically look at the socio-economic
characteristics of women oil palm processors, the level of awareness of improved oil palm
processing technologies among women processors, sources of information on improved oil palm
processing technologies, the reasons for non adoption of the improved oil palm processing
technologies by women processors and effects of adopting improved oil palm processing.
Technologies on rural women's oil yield, income and level of living.
A multistage sampling technique was adopted to select 125 respondents who were interviewed
with the aid of structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed using both descriptive and
inferential statistics (Pearson product moment correlation statistic).
The result showed that 61.1%, of the respondents were between the age ranges of greater than 50
years with the mean age of 54 years, 55.6% of the respondents had household size between 6-10
household members, 60.0%of the respondents spent between 1-6 years in school, 64.4% of the
respondents had between 20-40 years in Oil palm production, 84.4% of the respondents did not
have any visit by extension agent, 41.1% of the respondents had access to credit, 75.6% of the
respondent sourced their credit through Esusu, F cal which is 1.812 is slightly higher than the F
table value which is 1.590 but not significant at any level and it may be due to the low level of
adoption, household size was significant at 1% level but negatively correlated, years of
processing experience was significant at 1% and 5% level and positively correlated, credit and
extension agents’ visitation were significant at 5% level and were positively correlated,
complexity was significant at 5% level but negatively correlated, sources of information was
significant at 1% level.
In conclusion, sources of information and complexity had effects on adoption of the modern
processing technologies and use of improved technologies should be practiced by all oil palm
producers.
International Journal |
