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dc.contributor.authorIdrisa, Y.L.
dc.contributor.authorAbdoulaye, Tahirou
dc.contributor.authorMohammed, S.T.
dc.contributor.authorIbrahim, A.A.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:03:23Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:03:23Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationIdrisa, Y.L., Abdoulaye, T., Mohammed, S.T. & Ibrahim, A.A.(2014). Analysis of drought-tolerant maize adoptionand its effect on food security among farmers in the Sudan Savanna of Northeastern Nigeria. Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, 3(6), 496-504.
dc.identifier.issn2320-7027
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/1033
dc.description.abstractThis article examined the factors influencing the adoption of the drought-tolerant Maize(DT) varieties and their effect on food security among farmers in the Sudan Savannaagro-ecological zone of northeastern Nigeria. Data for the study were collected from 200farmers who were selected through a multi-stage sampling procedure. Factors influencingthe adoption of DT maize varieties were determined through the use of censoredregression (the Tobit model) while the effect of adoption of DT maize on food security wasdetermined through the use of the chi-square test. The results from the chi-square testwere further converted to a contingency coefficient in order to obtain the extent of theassociation between the adoption of DT maize and food security. The study revealed thatincome (? ? 0.01) and access to extension services (? ? 0.01) were significant ininfluencing the adoption of DT maize among farmers. The study also found a strong association (?2 – cal = 15.53; ?2 – tab = 13.28) between the adoption of DT maize andfood security among farmers in the Sudan Savanna agro-ecological zone of northeasternNigeria with a contingency coefficient of 0.25. The study thus concluded that maizefarmers in the Sudan Savanna agro-ecological zone of northeastern Nigeria are generallysmall-scale farmers that produce for subsistence. It was also concluded that the adoptionof DT maize significantly reduced the level of food insecurity among farmers in the SudanSavanna agro-ecological zone of northeastern Nigeria. It was therefore recommendedthat farmers should be linked to source of market for their produce in order to boost theirincome and that extension services should be strengthened so as to give farmers accessto improved technologies.
dc.format.extent496-504
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectDrought Tolerance
dc.subjectMaize
dc.subjectFood Security
dc.titleAnalysis of droughttolerant maize adoption and its effect on food security among farmers in the Sudan Savanna of Northeastern Nigeria
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Maiduguri
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectMaize
cg.journalAsian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology
cg.howpublishedFormally Published
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
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