Open AccessADOPTION OF SMALL-SCALE IRRIGATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR VEGETABLE PRODUCTION BY FARMERS IN NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA
Author(s) -
Danjuma A Bello,
A. O. Agwale,
S Moren,
Y W Laminu,
E Ndor
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
big data in agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2682-7786
DOI - 10.26480/bda.01.2021.18.20
Subject(s) - respondent , descriptive statistics , agriculture , scale (ratio) , simple random sample , local government , local government area , agricultural science , socioeconomics , government (linguistics) , irrigation , geography , production (economics) , data collection , mathematics , statistics , medicine , population , environmental health , economics , political science , cartography , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , environmental science , archaeology , macroeconomics , law , biology
The research was conducted to assess the adoption of small-scale irrigation technologies for vegetable production by farmers in Nasarawa State. A multi-stage random sampling techniques was adopted on selecting three (3) local government each from the three agricultural zones in the state namely; Nasarawa North, Nasarawa south and Nasarawa west to give a total number of nine (9) local government that was used for the study, from each of the nine (9) selected local government, fifteen (15) small-scale farmers were randomly selected to give a total number of one hundred and thirty five (135) respondents that was used for the study. Data were collected and analyzed using simple descriptive statistics such a frequency count, mean score, percentage score and standard deviation to satisfy all the objectives. Instrument for data collection was administered through a well structured questionnaire and oral interview. The instrument covered all the objectives of the study. The major findings revealed that majority of the respondents (63%) were full-time farmers while (37%) were engaged in other forms of occupation. The result also indicate that majority (41%) of the respondents fall within the ages of 21 – 30yrs (30%) falls within the ages of 31 – 40yrs (15%) falls within 1 – 20yrs and (7.4%) falls within 51 and above. The findings revealed that (66%) of the respondents are male while (34%) are female. The result also shows that (70%) of the respondents are married while (37%) are single. The findings revealed that majority (46.66%) of the respondent’s uses stream as the source of water supply (27%) uses dams and (19%) uses rivers (7.40%) uses canals.