FACTORS AFFECTING ADOPTION OF FISHING INNOVATIONS IN JEBBA LAKE
FACTORS AFFECTING ADOPTION OF FISHING INNOVATIONS IN JEBBA LAKE
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2003-02
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ATTAHIRU, MOHAMMED SULE
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The efforts to accomplish the task of self-sufficiency in food production and
improvement in the quality of life in rural areas necessarily entail shifting away from the
drudgery of age-long use of traditional human physical labour to utilization of modern
technological machinery or innovations. Modernising agriculture in Nigeria will eventually
lead to discarding the tendency to depend on imported finished food products for local
consumption in a predominantly agrarian economy.
This study was conducted at Jebba Lake which is bordered by Kwara and Niger
States. Data were collected randomly from 120 respondents in fourteen fishing
communities utilizing a structured questionnaire. Interviews and observations were also
employed as checks and as a form of triangulation. Data were analysed using descriptive
statistics and quantitative techniques of correlation and multiple regression. The study
investigated the relationships between cosmopoliteness, awareness, household size,
extension contact, education, income, age and experience and adoption of fishing
innovations. The results showed high level of awareness of the innovations, low overall
rate of adoption and the variables that affected the adoption positively in the following
order of importance at the 5% level of significance as cosmopoliteness, awareness and
education. There was no innovation in the package that was not adopted at all and there
was no respondent that did not adopt at least one innovation.
The study recommends exposure to more sources of information, provision of credit
facilities, input supply, operating facilities for extension staff and formation of modern
functional cooperatives by the fishermen.
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A thesis submitted to the Post-Graduate School, Ahmadu Bello University.in
partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Science
(Agricultural Extension).
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Faculty of Agriculture I
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Nigeria
February, 3000
Keywords
FACTORS AFFECTING, ADOPTION, FISHING INNOVATIONS, JEBBA LAKE