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Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Arable Crop Farmers ’ Adoption of Environmental Conservation Measures in South Eastern Nigeria
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Environmental degradation has remained one of the most devastating problem in South east Nigeria. This study analyzed socio-economic factors influencing arable crop farmer's adoption of Environmental conservation measures in south eastern Nigeria. Data were collected using semi structured and validated questionnaire from 342 randomly selected arable crop farmers. Data analysis was carried out using both descriptive and inferential statistical tool such as mean scores, tables, percentages and log it multiple regressions. Results show that the majority (70.50%) of the arable crop farmers were females, married (81.29%) had up to secondary education (49.42%) and of average age of 56.80 years. The mean household size was 5.40, while the mean number of years spent in formal school was 9.79 years. Over three-quarter of the people (80.70%) were members of different social organizations, with farming as their major occupation, (62.00%). The logit multiple regressions shows that the value of the R2 was 0.824 which implies that about 82% of the variation in the adoption of environmental degradation measures was accounted for by the socio-economic variables investigated. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ijraf.org/pdf/v2-i3/4.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
