Study on Management Leadership Skills and Faculty Research Capability: An Approach Towards Internationalization Status | Chapter 1 | Selected Topics in Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 4

 The goal of the study was to look into the institutional internationalisation efforts of State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Region XI through top management leadership abilities and faculty research competence. Its goal was to learn about the state of the SUCs' heads' leadership qualities and the institution's faculty research potential, as judged by the participants. It also probed into the level of the SUCs' institutional internationalisation efforts, as judged by the faculty. It found that leadership skills and faculty research capability are major predictors of SUCs in Region XI's institutional internationalisation efforts. Survey questionnaires were distributed to 400 professional participants for this study. The descriptive, correlational, and multi-regression analysis methods were used to examine the notion of leadership qualities among the heads of State Universities and Colleges, faculty research capabilities, and their relationship to institutional internationalisation efforts. The findings revealed that top management leadership abilities and faculty research capability had influenced institutional internationalisation initiatives, among other things.

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Prof. Jihan A. Labrador
Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology, Mati City, Philippines.

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Soil Management Investment on Cassava Production in Oyo State, Nigeria | Chapter 6 | Recent Progress in Plant and Soil Research Vol. 1

 Using cross-sectional data, this study examines soil management investment in cassava production in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State (Nigeria). Agriculture is a major economic sector in Nigeria, employing the vast majority of the population. Commercialization at the small, medium, and large scale enterprise levels is transforming the sector. Data were collected from 88 respondents using a structured questionnaire; four villages were chosen at random for the study. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive, mean, and multiple regression techniques. According to the findings, 84.1 percent of farmers were male, while 15.9 percent were female. 45.4 percent were between the ages of 21 and 30 years, 60.2 percent had 1-10 years of farming experience, and 33.0 percent had tertiary education. The most common soil management practices used by respondents were fertilizer and manure applications; 44.3 percent of farmers spent between N11,000 and N20,000 on soil management during the farming season. The regression analyses revealed that farm size and cassava output were both positively significant (= 0.203, p0.10) and (= 0.262, p0.01)1, respectively, whereas labor used was negatively significant (= -0.163, p0.01).  p0.10) to the level of soil management investment It was suggested, however, that farmers be better educated on appropriate soil management coping strategies. As a result, farmers should be encouraged by the government to improve their soil management system in order to increase productivity in the study area by providing formal credit facilities with no or low interest rates. It is suggested that policymakers assist farmers by providing agricultural credit and farm machinery at a subsidised rate, which could solve the problem of labor intensity and increase farmer productivity.

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Isaac. O. Oyewo,
Federal College of Forestry (FRIN), P.M.B. 5087, Jericho Hill, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.

Dr. Adejare. A. Adesope
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, P.M.B. 5054, Jericho, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Esther. O. O. Ladipupo-Alade
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, P.M.B. 5054, Jericho, Ibadan, Nigeria.

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