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FACTORS AFFECTING ADOPTION OF FISHING INNOVATIONS IN JEBBA LAKE
Abstract:
The efforts to accomplish the task of self-sufficiency in food production and improvement in the quality of life in rural areas necessarily entail shifting away from the drudgery of age-long use of traditional human physical labour to utilization of modern technological machinery or innovations. Modernising agriculture in Nigeria will eventually lead to discarding the tendency to depend on imported finished food products for local consumption in a predominantly agrarian economy. This study was conducted at Jebba Lake which is bordered by Kwara and Niger States. Data were collected randomly from 120 respondents in fourteen fishing communities utilizing a structured questionnaire. Interviews and observations were also employed as checks and as a form of triangulation. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and quantitative techniques of correlation and multiple regression. The study investigated the relationships between cosmopoliteness, awareness, household size, extension contact, education, income, age and experience and adoption of fishing innovations. The results showed high level of awareness of the innovations, low overall rate of adoption and the variables that affected the adoption positively in the following order of importance at the 5% level of significance as cosmopoliteness, awareness and education. There was no innovation in the package that was not adopted at all and there was no respondent that did not adopt at least one innovation. The study recommends exposure to more sources of information, provision of credit facilities, input supply, operating facilities for extension staff and formation of modern functional cooperatives by the fishermen.
FACTORS AFFECTING ADOPTION OF FISHING INNOVATIONS IN JEBBA LAKE
