Analysis of costs and returns of landowners and tenants in Cassava-based farms in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
2013
Ebong, V.O. (University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State (Nigeria). Dept. of Agricultural Economics/Extension) | Udousung, I.J. (Akwa Ibom State Univ., Obio Akpa Campus (Nigeria). Dept. of Agricultural Economics)
The study investigated the costs and returns of landowners and tenants in cassava based farms in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Multistage and purposive sampling techniques were employed in selecting 90 cassava farmers from each of the two categories of farmers, making a total of 180 respondents. Descriptive statistics were employed in the analysis of socio-economic characteristics of the sampled farmers. The result revealed that cassava production in the study area was dominated by females in both farms constituting 77.22% of the total sampled farmers with the males forming only 27.78% of them. This is an indication that cassava production in the study area is mostly a female oriented activity. However, a higher profit of N 526,140 was realized in the tenant farms as compared to N 227,568 made in the landowner farms.
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