ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF NOMADIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME ON CATTLE PRODUCTION OUTPUT AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN NORTH WESTERN ZONE OF NIGERIA
ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF NOMADIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME ON CATTLE PRODUCTION OUTPUT AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN NORTH WESTERN ZONE OF NIGERIA
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2015-11
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ABUBAKAR, Bayero
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This study was carried out to determine the impact of Nomadic Education Programme
on the Nomads Employment Opportunity and Cattle production Output in the North
West zoneof Nigeria. Primary data were collected in the month of April, 2015 by the
use of interview schedule questionnaire administered to 488 nomadic pastoralists
consisting of 264 within and 224 outside the grazing reserves nomadic education
centers in the study area. 5 respondents each were also sampled for Focus group
discursion from each of the villages and nomadic education centers in order to have indepth
knowledge on some of the responses given by the respondents in the filled
questionnaires. Logit regression model analysis, z-test and descriptive statistics
involving the use of frequency tables and percentages were used to analyze the data
collected from the field. The results obtained revealed that nomads socio-economic
characteristics like age (.008), educational level(.001) and livestock rearing
experience(.004) were significant to nomads participation and adoption of nomadic
education package at 1% percent level of probability. Nomadic Education Programme
package technological characteristics such as relative advantage (.033), affordability
(.020), compatibility (.011) and complexity (.012) were significant to nomads
participation and adoption of Nomadic Education package at 5% level of probability in
the study area. The results of the z-test statistic analysis on the impact of adoption of
Nomadic Education Programme package on the nomads „employment opportunity
revealed that (z-cal-2.67) was higher than (Z=1.96) at 0.05% level of probability,
indicating that there is significant difference in rural employment opportunity between
the nomads within and outside the grazing reserves nomadic education centers in the
North West zone of Nigeria. The major constraints faced by the nomads within the
grazing reserves nomadic education centers are poor water retention by the earth dams
beyond the month of March (81.81%) and inadequate vocational skills teaching aids
(72.72 among others. In order to improve on the nomad‟s extent of participation and
adoption of Nomadic Education Programme package, it is recommended that extension
services be intensifying by concerned organizations as well as periodic dredging of the
earth dams and roads be rehabilitated by the relevant bodies/organizations in
collaboration with National Commission for nomadic Education.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF
THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
DEGREE IN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND RURAL SOCIOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND RURAL
SOCIOLOGY
FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA, KADUNA STATE
NIGERIA
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ANALYSIS,, IMPACT,, NOMADIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME,, CATTLE PRODUCTION OUTPUT,, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES,, NORTH WESTERN ZONE,, NIGERIA