Determinants of Rural-Women Farmers Decisions on Artisanal Refinery Activities and Agricultural Productivity in Emohua Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nigeria | Chapter 7 | An Overview on Business, Management and Economics Research Vol. 3

 This study depended on determinants of Rural-Women-growers decisions on artisanal refineries endeavors and Agricultural Productivity in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. A total of eighty respondents were selected from four societies in the study area utilizing a purposive savoring technique. Data were calm using a well-organized questionnaire. Descriptive enumerations and bivariate probit regression model were used in the amount. The results revealed that most (100%) of the respondents were female while their mean age was 36years. Majorities (45.0%) of the accused are widows and their average income was (#421,250.00k). The demand-attract diversification alternative was sales of oil products (27.1%) which were the big findings concerning this study. This diversification alternative resulted to carelessness of farming ventures by the country women in the study area. It was only (25.4%) the one attested that sensitization program to curb artisanal purifier activities was the big intervention program completed activity by the state management, while only (33.0%) accentuated that inadvertent and sudden death was their major restraint. The result from the bivariate probit reversion model showed that age (0.027209), production experience (0.043173) and household amount (0.044784) were statistically significant and helpful to influence their decisions while earnings (2.24E-07), schooling (-0.022025) and number of farmlands destroyed by lubricate spills (-0.113430) were negative. Therefore, government bear encourage system which controls organization of modular refineries to sustain the environment of unending pollution and curb rurallivlihood drift.

Author(s) Details:

Unaeze, Henry Chiaka,
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agri-Business Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

Godstime, Emenike, Chimdioso,
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agri-Business Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

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